Australia Indonesia Youth Exchange Program

The Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program (AIYEP) is an exchange program which aims to provide opportunities for young Australians and Indonesians through social, professional and cultural exchange.[1]

The program sees 18 Indonesian participants (9 male, 9 female) aged between 21 and 25 undertake professional development activities in an Australian state or territory to experience through a rural and urban phase. Then after two months, they meet their Australian counterparts - and together they travel to Indonesia where they undertake a similar experience in an Indonesian province as a group of thirty-six.[2] In Indonesia they experience both a rural homestay and an urban area in the same Indonesian province. The rural phase in Indonesia community development project conducted in teams of both Australian and Indonesian delegates. The urban phase is held in the biggest city of the chosen Indonesian province, where delegates complete a professional work-place internship.

History

The program was established in 1981 and is an initiative of the Australia-Indonesia Institute (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade).[3]

Locations
  • 2022/23: Online
  • 2021/22: Online
  • 2020/21: Online (due to COVID-19 pandemic)[4]
  • 2019/20: Canberra-Queensland/East Java
  • 2018/19: Victoria/Riau
  • 2017/18: Central Coast-Canberra-Sydney/Babakan Baru-Kaur-Bengkulu City
  • 2016/17: South Australia/South Sulawesi
  • 2015/16: New South Wales/West Kalimantan
  • 2014/15: Western Australia/South Kalimantan
  • 2013/14: New South Wales/West Sumatra
  • 2012/13: Victoria/Yogyakarta
  • 2011/12: South Australia/Riau
  • 2010/11: Queensland/Southeast Sulawesi
  • 2009/10: Western Australia/Bangka Belitung
  • 2008/09: New South Wales/East Java
  • 2002/2003: Sydney-Orange, NSW, Kota Makassar-Malino Kab. Gowa Sulawesi Selatan
  • 2001/02:(Melbourne-Mildura-Canberra)-(Lampung-Kalianda-Rajabasa)
  • 2000/2001: Brisbane–Toowoomba / Malang - Batu
  • 1992/93: Western Australia/East Java. (Desa Parang and Kota Madiun)

References
  1. Australia-Indonesia Institute. "Advice to Applicants". Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  2. Dass, Jesse. "5 Reasons You Should Apply for AIYEP". Asia Options. Asia Options. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  3. "About AIYEP". The Communications Network. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. Metherall, Nick. "The Australia Indonesia Youth Exchange Program (AIYEP)". Asia Options. Asia Options. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
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