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Zairin Salampessy

Zairin Salampessy, usually known as ‘Embong’, is a graduate of the Fisheries Faculty, Unpatti. He was known as a pavement artist in Ambon from 1987 to 1992. In 1994, Suara Maluku newspaper asked him to draw caricatures and so he became a journalist, an assistant editor and then senior editor until 1998. He then joined the Baileo Maluku Network NGO in Ambon. When the conflict struck Ambon in 1999, he, together with a number of colleagues, immediately formed a team of Muslim and Christian volunteers, who worked to handle the victims of the conflict. He continued doing this until he moved to Jakarta, where he was involved in advocacy at a national and international level through the Advocacy Team for Case Solving in Ambon (TAPAK). While at TAPAK Ambon, he was on several occasions, part of the Indonesian NGO delegation to the Assembly of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland. He has now returned to Ambon and has become a freelance photographer for the Antara Photographic Bureau and a volunteer in the Inter-Faith organisation in Maluku.


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Events

Meet the author: Graeme Turner (ANU, Canberra)

ANU Cinema 153 Tangney Rd, Kambri Cinema (Lowitja O'Donoghue Cultural Centre), Acton, ACT

Graeme Turner will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on his new book Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good. A strong higher education system is fundamental to civil society. The...

Launch: Broken by Graeme Turner (Gleebooks, Sydney)

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South Wales

A strong higher education system is fundamental to civil society. The building of knowledge and the dissemination of information is vital to the proper functioning of our democracy. At the...

Launch: Broken by Graeme Turner (Readings, Melbourne)

Readings Carlton Woiworung Country, 309 Lygon St, Carlton, VIC, Australia

  Join us to hear Graeme Turner in conversation with Ben Eltham about Broken: Universities, Politics & the Public Good. In Broken, Graeme Turner examines the collapse of our Universities, from underfunding and over-reliance on...

Launch: Broken by Graeme Turner (Avid Reader, Brisbane)

Avid Reader 193 Boundary Street, West End, Queensland, Australia

ABOUT THE BOOK In Broken, Graeme Turner provides a reality check for those who imagine the academic life is one of privilege and leisure, laying bare the enormous challenges and...