Mr. Le Luong Minh, a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, assumed the post of Secretary General of the ASEAN in a ceremony for the Transfer of Office at the ASEAN Secretariat Building in Jakarta... more...

On Friday, 14th December 2012, H.E. Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of ASEAN held his farewell reception at the ASEAN Secretariat, after his 5-year tenure of office. As part of the ceremony he delivered a very personal farewell speech in which he pointed the following... more...

From November 28th – 29th 2012, UNODC, KONTRAS, the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Jakarta and the Indonesian police were carrying out a much-noticed workshop on Good Policing... more...

The objective of the seminar on Sustainable Development Assessment: Towards Measurable Goals was to initiate discussions on a three-year Asia-Europe Environment Forum program (2013-2015), with tangible results which will empower countries’ leadership... more...

From November 12th – 14th, 2012 a three-day training with the title “The 3rd Litigator Training on Judicial Review” has been conducted in Lippo Village, Tangerang. This activity marks the third training of a series - the first one has been carried out on September last year in Bogor... more...

Between 8th and 10th of October 2012, the first HSF workshop on “Legislation and legal drafting processes” in cooperation with ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) took place in Jakarta... more...

Since 1993, the Hanns-Seidel Foundation has been active in Indonesia. From the beginning, the encouragement for sustainable protection of climate and environment, in a country in which one of the largest biodiversity of the world is found and whose sizeable forest stand account as a major component to combat global warming... more...

From the 24th of August until the 1st of September 2012, the former German Minister of Economics and current Member of Parliament, Michael Glos, paid a working visit together with the Head of HSF’s Institute for International Cooperation, Mr. Christian Hegemer, to Indonesia... more...

From July 10th – 12th, 2012, Angela Merkel was on her first official state visit in Indonesia as a German Chancellor. On her schedule were, among others, meetings with the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian Constitutional Court, the Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo and representatives from various NGOs... more...

Reinhold Bocklet, vice president of the Bavarian Parliament, has received the long-standing Indonesian constitutional judge, Dr. Harjono, and further high-ranking representatived from the Indonesian Ministry of Justice and Human Rights on July, 5th 2012. The delegation from the most populous Muslim nation and Southeast Asia’s largest democracy... more...

The Hanns Seidel Foundation in Jakarta has supported its partner organisation, the Indonesian Lecturer Association of Constitutional Court Procedural Law (Asosiasi Pengajar Hukum Acara... more...

On June 15th, HSF Indonesia took a part in a seminar conducted by Jakarta State University in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment entitled, “Green Economy and Environmental Education”. The seminar, which was held during the Indonesia Environment Week 2012... more...

Hanns Seidel Foundation, in cooperation with Center for Indonesian Constitutional Jurisprudence (CIC-Jure) and Indonesian Bar Association (IKADIN), held a discussion panel on ”the Urgency of Bar Association Reform in Accordance with the Indonesia Constitution... more...

From June 6th-8th 2012, a three-day traning program on the litigation of laws in line with constitutional principles has been carried out in Bandung, West Java. This training, which has been jointly carried out by the Indonesian Ministry for Justice and Human Rights... more...

The 9th batch of the Asia-Pacific Young Leadership Program on Environment for Sustainable Development highlighted Green Economy, in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, was held at Tongji University, Shanghai on 4th until 8th of June 2012... more...