Events

The 8th KAS-CSIS German-Indonesian Strategy Dialogue

The Super Election Year: Challenges and Opportunities for Democracies Beyond 2024

This year's KAS-CSIS German-Indonesian Strategy Dialogue was dedicated to the super election year 2024, in which around 49% of the world's population in over 50 countries took part in national elections. Under the title “The Year of Elections: Challenges and Opportunities for Democracies Beyond 2024”, the event focused on key regions such as the USA, the European Union, India and Indonesia.

Habibie Democracy Forum 2024

“Strengthening Democracy Through Citizen Participation”

This year's Habibie Democracy Forum (HDF) took place in Jakarta on November 12th under the theme “Strengthening Democracy through Citizen Participation”. The event was the highlight of a series of public discussion rounds on the topic of democracy, which the KAS organized together with The Habibie Center for the first time this year.

Indonesian Youth Democratic Forum 2024

Owning the Journey of Our Democracy

Over 50% of Indonesia's population is between the ages of 18 and 39. Despite their demographic importance and their potential to contribute significantly to the country's development, their political opinions and concerns are often overlooked. There is a growing need to empower these young voices and provide them with a platform to express their ideas and visions for the future of Indonesia.

The 5th KAS-CSIS Germany-Indonesia Strategic Dialogue

Road to Indonesia’s G20 Presidency

Indonesia will hold the G20 presidency in 2022 for the first time since joining the forum in 2008. Riding this momentum, this year the 5th annual KAS-CSIS Germany-Indonesia Strategic Dialogue took on the theme “Road to Indonesia’s G20 Presidency”.

Hybrid event: Post Graduate Course on Social Market Economy

The annual postgraduate course on social market economy took place this year in a hybrid format. The event held in Bogor was attended by economic experts from universities, government officials and journalists.

Hybridevent on the topic press and public relations in the era of digital Media

for employees of the PR-Departments of the government

Indonesia ranks fourth in the world with the most Facebook users and their number of Twitter users ranked three. The access to information of the population is increasingly dominated by digital media. The use of conventional media is becoming less and less important in the country. The Indonesian government would like to use the opportunities that the rapid development brings for their communication with their citizens. In addition to the many opportunities, this development also creates new challenges and risks. In order to address this important and current topic, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs organized a hybrid workshop in Solo from June 23rd to 25th at which more than 150 participants from PR departments of various ministries and government participated virtual and 25 participants participated on site.

International Hybrid-Seminar on the topic of Regional Economic Recovery

Together with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Penabulu Foundation, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung organized a hybrid seminar on the topic: "Regional Economic Recovery" in Palembang, South Sumatra. The event, in which forty participants from the provincial government of South Sumatra attended and almost five hundred participants were connected online, used best practices from Germany and Japan to show possible options for economic recovery after an economic crisis.

5th German-Asian Business Dialogue

The Future Of The International Order Is Decided In Asia

German-Asian cooperation possesses abundant potential for maintaining the rules-based international order and keeping global trade routes open – requirements for both regions’ prosperity. Which challenges are governments and businesses in the Indo-Pacific and Germany facing under Covid-19? What lessons have been learned?

4. Deutsch-Indonesischer Strategiedialog

Charting Bilateral and International Cooperation for Resilience in Health Crisis

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Indonesia has been conducting for four years in Jakarta a German-Indonesian strategy dialogue together with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Strengthening the Competences and Abilities of Women MPs at the Indonesian Parliament

Since 2008, KAS in cooperation with his Indonesian partners, has been providing training for female parliament members at national and regional level. This is intended to strengthen the role of women in Indonesian politics.