Council of American Overseas Research Center (CAORC) accepts American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) as an Overseas Research Center

We are happy to announce that the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) has just voted to accept the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) as one of its Overseas Research Centers (AORC). AIFIS, a consortium of Southeast Asia centers at US universities, aims to further the development of Indonesian studies in the United States and foster exchange between Indonesian and US scholars. It was founded at the initiative of Cornell professors Martin Hatch, Tom Pepinsky and Eric Tagliacozzo and has its US headquarters at Cornell. Its Indonesia office, at the Sampoerna School of Education in Jakarta, officially opened on January 9 of this year.