Alumni Profile
Dr Rita Pranawati is a Special Advisor to Indonesia’s Minister of Primary and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen), focusing on inclusive education and equitable access for communities in remote, frontier, and outermost regions.
Rita also serves as Treasurer of the ‘Aisyiyah Central Board, contributing to the organisation’s long-standing commitment to education and social welfare. She previously served as Vice Chair of the Indonesian Commission for the Protection of Children (KPAI), where she worked to strengthen policy, public awareness, and institutional responses to child rights and protection challenges across Indonesia. She is also a founder of Rahma.id, an organization focused on protecting children and empowering women, and enhancing family resilience through community and the digital media platform rahma.id.
Rita is a lecturer in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof Dr Hamka (UHAMKA) in Jakarta and contributes as a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture (CSRC) at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) in Jakarta.
Read more about Rita’s story as part of our Celebrating Alumni Series
Rita also serves as Treasurer of the ‘Aisyiyah Central Board, contributing to the organisation’s long-standing commitment to education and social welfare. She previously served as Vice Chair of the Indonesian Commission for the Protection of Children (KPAI), where she worked to strengthen policy, public awareness, and institutional responses to child rights and protection challenges across Indonesia. She is also a founder of Rahma.id, an organization focused on protecting children and empowering women, and enhancing family resilience through community and the digital media platform rahma.id.
Rita is a lecturer in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof Dr Hamka (UHAMKA) in Jakarta and contributes as a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture (CSRC) at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) in Jakarta.
Read more about Rita’s story as part of our Celebrating Alumni Series
Program Highlights
AIMEP is an excellent program that broadens perspectives and introduces Australia’s multicultural society with respect for the human rights of all its citizens, including Muslims. Importantly, it brings together two different nations to exchange ideas and build mutual understanding and future collaboration. I gained many experiences while in Australia, especially connecting with Muslims in Australia and people of other religions. Meeting our brothers and sisters in Australia gave me many experiences with diversity.
One of my most memorable experiences was visiting an interfaith community in Canberra, where I met a Jewish person and we discussed the Islamic religious context in Indonesia. I also met Governor-General Quentin Bryce, the representative of the Queen of England in Australia, and we discussed English language learning in pesantren. These discussions enabled us to provide an understanding that Muslims in Indonesia are advanced and moderate.
Through AIMEP, I gained an international network with many connections in Australia. It’s is not only a program for building people-to-people understanding but also contributes towards government-to-government cooperation between Indonesia and Australia.
One of my most memorable experiences was visiting an interfaith community in Canberra, where I met a Jewish person and we discussed the Islamic religious context in Indonesia. I also met Governor-General Quentin Bryce, the representative of the Queen of England in Australia, and we discussed English language learning in pesantren. These discussions enabled us to provide an understanding that Muslims in Indonesia are advanced and moderate.
Through AIMEP, I gained an international network with many connections in Australia. It’s is not only a program for building people-to-people understanding but also contributes towards government-to-government cooperation between Indonesia and Australia.
