Iskandar has also been involved in a number of Indonesian language projects in Australia, working as an interpreter and translating for both radio and television. His pocket book, Essential Indonesian Phrasebook, was published by Periplus Singapore in 2002. Recently Iskandarworked with IHPCP (an AusAid HIV/AIDS project) as a Provincial Adviser for Sexual Transmission and Gender in the Indonesian province of Papua, where he helped produce multi-media productions for sexual health promotion using the local languages.

For his talk he used the title "Edutainment Program for HIV Prevention in Papua" - meaning that the education program had to be entertaining if it was to succeed.

The prevalence of HIV-AIDS in Papua is the highest of anywhere in Indonesia - initially being brought by visiting fisherman in the late 80's or early 90's. Since then it has spread mostly by sexual contact (i.e. not much transmission amongst injecting drug users) and is now widespread. Iskandar outlined the local issues that shaped their awareness campaign, and showed the materials used including a video clip of a TV commercial. To get more detail

• look at the slides that Iskandar used for his presentation (1.1 MB)
• checkout the 1-minute vieo clip, courtesy of (14.3 MB)