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Elena Williams and Kirrilee Hughes

Elena Williams and Kirrilee Hughes

Dr Elena Williams is an international education researcher and practitioner, specialising in Australia-Indonesia learning abroad. In 2025 she gained her PhD from The Australian National University, examining the impact of the Australian Government’s New Colombo Plan (NCP) on Australia-Indonesia relationship-building and in October 2025 was awarded the national ‘Outstanding Postgraduate Thesis’ Award from the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) for this research. In 2024 Elena was appointed to DFAT’s NCP External Advisory Group, where recommendations from her doctoral research were incorporated into the Federal Government’s suite of reforms made to the NCP. Dr Kirrilee Hughes is an international education practitioner and researcher. She has held leadership and strategy roles for global school organisations and at leading Australian universities and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students in Australia and Singapore. Kirrilee’s interest in Indonesia was initially sparked through an AFS high school exchange program in the 1990s, and she is also an alumna of Acicis’ Flexible Language Immersion Program (FLIP) and East Java Field Study (EJFS). She currently serves on the Acicis Reference Group.

Experiencing Indonesia: 30 years of successful public diplomacy through Acicis

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Since 1995, The Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies (Acicis) has welcomed almost 5,000 students to live, study and intern in Indonesia. It stands as one of the longest-running examples of educational public diplomacy in our region, as the forthcoming edited volume, Experiencing Indonesia: 30 years of ACICIS, (ANU Press), explores in more detail. The […]

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