Program Guru Pendamping/Language Assistant Program

The Consulate of the Republic of Indonesia in Perth, Western Australia in collaboration with the Department of Education and Training of Western Australia and Westralian Indonesian Language Teachers’ Association (WILTA) are seeking participants in the 2009 Indonesian Language Assistant Program in Western Australia.

The program is open to all teachers of Indonesian or English who are Indonesian citizens and currently residing in Indonesia.

The program will be held for a year, from January to December 2009. During the program, participants will teach Indonesian language, promoting the Indonesian language teaching and learning program in Western Australia while serving as goodwill ambassadors to introduce Indonesian culture to enhance bilateral relationship between Indonesia and Australia. The participants will receive an allowance in amount of AU$ 988,00 fortnightly.

Registration will be open from 22 April 2008 to 6 June 2008 (per posting date).

Download further information here.

Download the Application Form here.

Friday 25 January 2008 at 4.40pm was an important occasion in Indonesian Language Teaching in Western Australia. That was the moment when GA 730 landed in Perth with the first ever WA Department of Education and Training (DET) Indonesian Language Assistants on board.

Mr Agustinus Budi Winursito (Budi), Ms Maria Suci Wuryanti (Suci) and Ms Agatha Uni Asmarani (Uni), were warmly greeted at the airport by Dian Nirmalasari (KRI Vice Consul Protocol) and  Karen Bailey (representing WILTA) and accompanied to their temporary accommodation at the St Thomas More College in Nedlands.

After an orientation day at the Department of Education’s Central Office on Tue 29 Jan, the Language Assistants will spend 2008 working with teachers and students of Indonesian in WA Government schools. Mr Alexander Due, the fourth Language Assistant arrived several days later to to begin his duties with the Department.

The Department of Education’s Language Assistant Program has been in operation for decades however in the past it has only been available for French and German. After a formal approach by WILTA and representatives of the Consulate of the Republic of Indonesia Perth in early 2005, initial discussions were held with DET to include Indonesian language in this very worthwhile program. Two years of negotiations and much work has now led to the inclusion of up to four Indonesian Language Assistants in what is intended will be a yearly intake.