Immediate Response

What's Next

Working Together

School-to-school Links

A truly Australian Yogyakarta Schools Project

An Invitation

Want to be involved? Need more information?


Immediate Response
As an immediate response, AIS organized a collection of money to provide bottled water to isolated villages and our drivers delivered clothes, food and bedding donated by the families of our students to isolated villages. Following that, our teaching staff volunteered their July vacation to set up a holiday education program in three villages in Yogyakarta.

What next?
With the assistance of various Australian businesses in Jakarta and the Australian Embassy, the Australian International School is sponsoring the building of an open-style school building in Desa Semoyo, Kecamantan Patuk, to replace school buildings destroyed by the earthquake.. The Australian Embassy’s Direct Aid Program, which provides funding to support small scale community development activities, has very generously approved a grant to realize our immediate goal. Australian International School will be responsible for submitting progress reports to the Australian Embassy as well as supplying a final acquittal report on the process of accounting.

Working Together
Dr Margaret Shore, Ph D. (Early Childhood), M.Ed. (Administration) has collaborated with us to model Australian teaching techniques to local teachers. They have worked alongside our own Australian International School teachers; and, as a consequence, students from the schools in Yogyakarta have already sent letters and Art work to their counterparts at AIS. AIS is planning a second visit involving staff and students who intend to contribute in a practical and durable way as part of our students service program.

School-to-school Links – The Australian Schools Assistance Project (ASAP)
As an extension of our own efforts to assist local schools and communities throughout their recovery and reconstruction, AIS is happy to act as a facilitator for any Australian school wishing to replicate and enlarge our efforts in the Yogyakarta Special Administrative region.

Through our contacts with local administrators and communities, we are able to link Indonesian schools in need of assistance with a partnering Australian school and to foster direct sponsorship and interaction between students and school communities in both countries. This process has already begun with several Australian schools providing financial assistance and ongoing communication. The respected Jakarta firm of international accountants, MS Taxes, has volunteered to audit all monies received under this program and to ensure that all funds go to nominated Schools for the direct benefit of students.

A truly Australian Schools Project
We plan to make ASAP a truly Australian initiative and have secured sponsorship from the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Bank Commonwealth, Bluescope Steel, Qantas Airways, Training Australia and MS Taxes. We see ASAP as an opportunity to demonstrate Australian friendship and assistance in the area of education. It is particularly important for both the donor and the recipient to maintain the relationship in the longer term - especially as Indonesia and Australia are regional neighbors.  Introducing students to each other as friends will ensure that children develop cultural understanding and tolerance at an early age.Each Australian school joining ASAP will be matched up with a local school in Yogyakarta so that Australian students can become directly involved in raising and allocating donations for their sponsored school, and can communicate directly with their new friends in their partner school.

A webpage has been established and will be updated periodically to provide on-going information on the project so that school communities in Australia can see what is happening in their sponsored school.

An Invitation
We extend to your school an invitation to become directly involved in assisting the students of Yogyakarta in the most practical possible way.

ASAP will provide basic equipment to schools so that students who have been traumatized by the earthquake (and who continue to be traumatized by aftershocks and ash falls from Mt Merapi) can return to some form of normality. Even if the support organized by your school simply pays for the school textbooks for one year, it will still be of tremendous assistance to families who have lost everything.

Want to be involved? Need more information?
Should you require further information or wish to be come involved in the Australian Assistance Project for Yogyakarta  please email asap@ais-indonesia.com

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