Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program - promoting cross-cultural understanding since 1981

Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program

TCN is the Australian coordinator of the Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program — an initiative of the Australia Indonesia Institute (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade).

The program has two main phases in each country: a capital city location, followed by a rural/regional stay. A counterpart system is established between the two groups for the Indonesian stage, in which each Australian is matched with a member of the Indonesian group. The Australian participants, nine men and nine women, participate with an Indonesian counterpart group of 18 young people drawn from throughout Indonesia. More...

This year...

The Indonesian participants will arrive in October for the Australian phase of the program starting with a week of orientation before taking up work placements and homestays in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, and then to the regional town of Benalla. More...