sixth assembly
Solidarity Across Cultures: Working Together for Democracy

Jakarta, Indonesia

April 11-14, 2010

The agenda focused on ways to expand democracy movements within all cultures, as well as on ways to develop mutually supporting cross-cultural relationships to advance democracy in all global regions; continue the discussion on “Making Democracy Work” begun at the Fifth Assembly in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2008; advance the World Movement’s ongoing Defending Civil Society and Assessing Democracy Assistance projects; and address the challenges to democracy work in such areas as anti-corruption, free expression, youth engagement, independent media, human rights, local governance, elections, political party development, women’s political participation, and ethnic and religious inclusion, among others.

Final Agenda

Sunday - 11 April

10:00 - 15:00 - Participant Registration

10:00 - 15:00 - Democracy Fair Open

16:00 - 18:00 - Opening Plenary Session
Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Welcoming Remarks: (see video)

The Honorable Kim Campbell
Chair and Member (Canada), Steering Committee

Bambang Harymurti
Member (Indonesia), Steering Committee (read remarks)

Opening Address:

The Honorable Anwar Ibrahim (see video and read remarks)
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

Video Messages:

Presentations:

Ms. Esraa Rashid (see video)
Egyptian Democratic Academy (Egypt)

Mr. Tapera Kapuya (see video and read remarks)
World Youth Movement for Democracy- Africa (Zimbabwe)
   
Mr. Hans Tippenhauer (see video and read remarks)
Fondation Espoir/ Jeune Ayiti (Haiti)

18:15 - 19:30 - Dinner 

Monday - 12 April

8:45 - 9:45 - Keynote Address by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia (see video and read remarks)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French, Russian, Spanish

10:15 - 13:15 - Panel/Discussion A: Indonesia's Experience in Democracy

Organizer:
Tempo Media (Indonesia)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French

10:15 - 13:15 - Topical Workshops: Session A

• Embracing and Instilling Democratic Values Among Youth
  

Organizers:
World Youth Movement for Democracy – WYMD
Maarif Institute (Indonesia)
OCASA (Colombia)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, Spanish

• Liberation Technology: Its Impact on the Struggle for Democracy

Organizers:
Network of Democracy Research Institutes – NDRI
Institute for Development and Social Initiatives – IDIS, “Viitorul” (Moldova)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, Russian

• Inclusive Democracy: Women and Men Working Together to Ensure the Promises of Democracy (read about this workshop on the WLP Web site)

Organizers:
Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace – WLP (U.S.)
Fondation Espoir (Haiti)
Hope for Haiti (Haiti)

Languages: Bahasa, English, French

• How Can Business Foster Civic Leadership?

Organizer:
Center for International Private Enterprise – CIPE (U.S.)

Languages: Bahasa, English

• Addressing Attacks on Human Rights Defenders and Independent Media: How Can Cross-Border Solidarity Help?

Organizers:
East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network
Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety (Azerbaijan)

Languages: Bahasa, English, French, Russian

• Supporting Civil Society Legal Reform: Best Practices for Engaging with Government/Parliament

Organizer:
International Center for Not-For Profit Law – ICNL (U.S.)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, Spanish

• Making Democracy Work: How to Ensure Citizen Engagement in Policy Making?

Organizers:
Yappika: Civil Society Alliance for Democracy (Indonesia)
Mouvement Citoyen (Senegal)

Languages: Bahasa, English, Spanish

• How Can Civil Society Help Meet the Challenges of Constitutional Reform?

Organizers:
Human Rights Monitor (Nigeria)
Partnership for Social Initiatives (Georgia)

Languages: English

• The Politics of Natural Resources: How Can Civil Society Help Monitor Accountability?

Organizers:
Group for Alternative Research and Monitoring of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Project (Chad)
Mining Advocacy Network - JATAM (Indonesia)

Languages: Bahasa, English

• Promoting Democratic Rights in the Informal Economy: The Case of Domestic Workers

Organizer:
Solidarity Center (U.S.)

Languages: Bahasa, English, Spanish

10:15 - 13:15 - Technology Training Session: Educate! Using IT in Civic Education

Trainer:
PT Cipta Lugina (on behalf of Microsoft Indonesia Academic Program)

Languages: English

13:30 - 14:30 - Lunch / Democracy Fair

14:45 - 18:15 - Regional Workshops

• Africa: Safeguarding Democratic Institutions 

Organizer:
African Democracy Forum – ADF

Languages: Bahasa, English, French

• Asia

Concurrent workshops (coordinated by the World Forum for Democratization in Asia – WFDA):

Media Freedom

Organizer:
Southeast Asia Press Alliance - SEAPA

Languages: Bahasa, English

Labor and Migrant workers' rights

Organizers:
Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers
China Labour Bulletin (China)

Languages: Bahasa, English

human rights mechanisms

Organizers:
Human Rights Working Group – HRWG (Indonesia)
Forum Asia

Languages: Bahasa, English

• Central-Eastern Europe/Eurasia: Building Regional Solidairty - How Can Democracy Activists in the Region Cooperate in Response to Backsliding from Democracy and Attacks on Rights and Freedoms? 

Organizers:

Centre for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights (Russia)
Europe XXI Foundation (Ukraine)
Educational Society of Malopolska (Poland)
People in Need Foundation (Czech Republic)

Languages: English, Russian

• Latin America/Caribbean: Full Democracy - What We Had, What We Have, and What We Want AND Networks in Action - How to Build True Solidarity 

Organizer:
Latin America and Caribbean Network for Democracy – LAC Network

Languages: English, Spanish

• Middle East/North Africa

Organizers:
Arab Democracy Foundation – ADF
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy – CSID

Languages: Arabic, English

19:30 - 22:00 - Cultural Evening and Dinner (hosted by Jakarta Capital City Government)

Tuesday - 13 April

8:45 - 9:45 - Plenary Session II: “Muted Voices, Controlled Spaces, and Restricted Funds: How to Defend Civil Society?”

Organizer:
World Movement for Democracy Secretariat

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French, Russian, Spanish

10:15 - 13:15 - Panel/Discussion B: Discussion of World Movement for Democracy Project on “Assessing Democracy Assistance” (read about this panel in the Assembly blog)

Organizers:
World Movement for Democracy Secretariat
FRIDE (Spain)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French, Russian, Spanish

10:15 - 13:15 - Topical Workshops: Session B

• Youth Democratic and Economic Empowerment

Organizer:
Center for International Private Enterprise – CIPE (U.S.)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, Spanish

• Strategies for Effecting Change in Closed Societies

Organizers:
Cuban Democratic Directorate (Cuba)
National Endowment for Democracy – NED (U.S.)

Languages: Bahasa, English, Spanish

• How Can Minority Rights Best Be Protected in a Democracy?

Organizers:
National Alliance for Freedom of Religion and Beliefs – AKKBB (Indonesia)
Due Process of Law Foundation (Peru)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, Russian

• How Can the Party Internationals Help Develop Democratic Parties? (read about this workshop on the NDI Web site)

Organizer:
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs – NDI (U.S.)

Language: English

• The Role of Journalists in Democratic Development

Organizers:
Solidarity Center (U.S.)
International Federation of Journalists – IFJ

Languages: Bahasa, English, French

• Defending Civil Society: Opportunities for and Challenges to Engaging the International Community
  

Organizers:
World Movement for Democracy Secretariat
African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (The Gambia)
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Languages: Bahasa, English, French

• Religion, Tradition, and Rights: How Can Civic Educators Help Build the Bridges?

Organizers:
Cooperation Center for Afghanistan (Afghanistan)
Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (The Philippines)

Languages: Bahasa, English

• Building Strategies for Civil Society in Implementing Transitional Justice

Organizers:
Alliance for Social Dialogue (Nepal)
IDASA (South Africa)

Language: English

• How to Institutionalize Democratic Civil-Military Relations?

Organizers:
Institute for Defense Security and Peace Studies – IDSPS (Indonesia)
Human Rights Research Association (Turkey)

Languages: Bahasa, English, Spanish

• Preventing Electoral Conflict and Violence: What Roles Can Electoral Management Bodies, Political Parties, Civil Society, and Media Play?

Organizer:
International IDEA

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English

10:15 - 13:15 - Technology Training Session: Building a Digital Resource Center

Trainer:
Allen Overland – Democracy Resource Center (U.S.)

Language: English

13:30 - 14:30 - Lunch / Democracy Fair

14:45 - 17:45 - Functional Workshops

• Network of Democracy Research Institutes – NDRI: Translating Research into Policy

Organizers:
NDRI
Ghana Center for Democratic Development – CDD-Ghana (Ghana)

Languages: Bahasa, English, Spanish

• Global Network on Local Governance – GNLG: Agenda for 2020

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French

• World Youth Movement for Democracy - WYMD

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, Spanish

• International Women's Democracy Network – IWDN: Towards 2020: Strategies for Realizing Democracy

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French, Russian, Spanish

• Global Forum for Media Development – GFMD: Networking for Media Freedom in Development

Languages: Bahasa, English, Russian

• Democracy Assistance Foundations (read about this workshop in the Assembly blog)

Organizer:
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

Languages: English

• The Contribution of the Community of Democracies to Global Democratization: The Second Decade

Organizer:
International Steering Committee of the Community of Democracies

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French

14:45 - 17:45 - Technology Training Session: Mobilize! Twitter and Text Messaging to Rally Support

Trainers:
Ahmed Samih – Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence (Egypt)
Christina Karchevskaya – Citizen Journalist (Belarus)

Language: English

18:00 - N/A - Free Evening for Participants

Wednesday - 14 April

9:00 - 12:00 - Skills-Sharing and Capacity-Building Workshops

• How Civil Society Can Engage with the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Mechanism

Organizers:
Conectas (Brazil)
Forum Asia

Language: English

• Technology Innovations for Accountable Governance and Women’s Participation (read about this workshop on the NDI Web site)

Organizer:
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs – NDI (U.S.)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, Spanish

• Citizen-Led Democracy Assessments: The International IDEA Methodology and Practical Experiences

Organizers:
International IDEA
Philippine Democracy Assessment Network

Languages: Bahasa, English, French

• Increasing Investment in Youth Education in Democracy: The DESPLAY Africa Youth Democracy Academy Case Study

Organizer:
Youngstars Foundation (Nigeria)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, Spanish

• Candidate Schools During the Indonesian Election Campaign

Organizer:
Friedrich Naumann Stiftung – Indonesia

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French, Russian, Spanish

• “Democracy is…” – Join the Worldwide Digital Conversation

Organizer:
U.S. Department of State – Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP)

Languages: Bahasa, English

• Actors In Democracy Assistance: What Have We Learned from the Asian and European Experiences?

Organizers:
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy - TFD
European Partnership for Democracy - EPD

Language: English

• Informal Education for “Home-Grown” Democracy

Organizers:
Indonesian Community for Democracy – KID (Indonesia)
Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy – NIMD (The Netherlands)
IDASA (South Africa)

Languages: Bahasa, English

• Diversity and Democracy: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities

Organizers:
SOS Racisme (France)
SOVA Center (Russia)

Languages: Bahasa, English, French

• Assessing Democracy Assistance: The Case of Indonesia [BY SPECIAL INVITATION]

Organizers:
FRIDE (Spain)
World Movement for Democracy Secretariat

Languages: Bahasa, English

9:00 - 12:00 - Technology Training Session: Connect! Facebook and Ning to Create Solidarity Networks

Trainers:
Sean Ang – Southeast Asian Center for e-Media – SEACEM (Tibet)
Usha Venkatachallam – Women’s Learning Partnership (India)

Language: English

9:00 - 12:00 - Site Visits

• Corruption Eradication Commission
  
• Indonesia Election Commission
  
• Pesantren Ashidiqqiyyah – NU (Islamic Boarding School)
  
• High School – Muhammadiyah 11 (Islamic Boarding School)

12:15 - 13:15 - Lunch / Democracy Fair

13:30 - 16:30 - Panel/Discussion C: Preparing for Transitions: What to Keep, What to Change, and What to Expect? (see video)

Organizers:
People in Need Foundation (Czech Republic)
Europe XXI Foundation (Ukraine)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French, Russian, Spanish

13:30 - 16:30 - Topical Workshops:  Session C

• The Role of New Media and Pop Culture for Youth Engagement and Mobilization

Organizers:
World Youth Movement for Democracy – WYMD
Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Serbia)

Languages: Arabic, English, Bahasa

• Addressing Online Security Challenges

Organizers:
IBelarus.net (Belarus)
Southeast Asian Center for e-Media – SEACEM (Malaysia)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, Russian

• How Can Civil Society Help Ensure the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Efforts?

Organizers:
Transparencia Colombia (Colombia)
Indonesia Corruption Watch (Indonesia)

Languages: Bahasa, English, French, Spanish

• How Can Provincial and Local Governments Promote Human Rights and Democratic Practices?

Organizers:
Global Network on Local Governance – GNLG
Democracy Development Programme - DDP (South Africa)

Languages: Bahasa, English

• Silencing Dissent: Libel Laws and Media Freedom – Making an Argument for Self-Regulation in Media

Organizers:
Press Council of Indonesia (Indonesia)
Global Forum on Media Development – GFMD (Belgium)
International Federation of Journalists – IFJ

Languages: Bahasa, English

• Addressing Dictatorship and Radicalism: The Role of Political Parties

Organizers:
Baluchistan Institute for Development (Pakistan)
Arab Democracy Foundations

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English

• How Can Civil Society Effectively Influence Government to Help Ensure Its Responsiveness? (read about this workshop on the IRI Web site)

Organizer:
International Republican Institute – IRI (U.S.)

Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French

• Pluralism and Diversity: Strategies for Developing Strong Interfaith Coalitions to Support Religious Freedom Rights

Organizers:
Freedom House (U.S.)
Lakpesdam (Indonesia)

Languages: Bahasa, English

• Achieving NGO Accountability and Sustainability: What Works?

Organizers:
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
TIFA Foundation (Indonesia)

Languages: Bahasa, English, French, Spanish

• Building Solidarity with Internally Displaced Persons: How to Ensure Their Inclusion in Democratic Processes?

Organizer:
Educational Society of Malopolska (Poland)

Language: English

13:30 - 16:30 - Technology Training Session: Communicate! Online Newspaper and Video to Broadcast to the World

Trainers:
Premesh Chandran – Malaysiakini (Malaysia)
Ahmed Samih – Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence (Egypt)

Language: English

13:30 - 16:30 - Site Visits

• Constitutional Court
• Parliamentary Women Caucus
• Urban Poor Consortium

18:45 - 21:30 - John B. Hurford Memorial Dinner and Democracy Courage Tributes Presentations

Dinner
Languages: Arabic, Bahasa, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Announcement of Global Winners of World Youth Movement for Democracy Essay Contest:

Daria Taradai (Ukraine)

Democracy Courage Tribute Presentations:

• The Movement for Human Rights in Syria
  
• The Student Movement in Venezuela 
  
• The Women's Movement in Iran
  
• Human Rights Defenders in the North Caucasus
  

Closing Remarks