David Reeve

David Reeve has been visiting Indonesia for over 45 years, as a diplomat, researcher, historian, visiting lecturer, beach comber and project manager. He has lived in Indonesia for some sixteen years, and worked at six Indonesian universities. He was a founding lecturer in the Australian Studies program at Universitas Indonesia in the 1980s. He had a three-year stretch at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta and Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang in the 1990s, as resident director for the ACICIS program which takes Australian students to study in Indonesian universities. He has written on Indonesian politics, Indonesian language, the Indonesian diaspora and Australian-Indonesian relations. David retired from his position at UNSW ten years ago and is currently completing a biography of the Indonesian historian Ong Hok Ham.