Australian Indonesian Association of Victoria

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Agent TypeOrganisationIdentifierUMA-AG-000001424HistoryThe Australian Indonesian Association of Victoria Inc (AIAV) was formed in 1956, following on from the formation of the AIA of NSW in 1945, and adopted the same goal: “To foster and promote friendship, understanding and good relations between the peoples of Indonesia and Australia”. One of its first activities was to provide host families for a number of Indonesian engineering and architecture students who were in Australia under the Colombo Plan.

Another early activity of the Association was to entertain members of the Indonesian Olympic team who were in Melbourne to compete in the 1956 Olympic Games. Nearly 50 years later, this tradition was repeated, with AIAV members assisting a visiting schoolboys’ cricket team from East Java.

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Australian Indonesian Association

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O'Neill, Hugh

Dates

Date1956-

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AcronymAIAV

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Source of DescriptionAustralian Indonesian Association of Victoria

University of Melbourne Archives

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