Tony and Yohanni Johns Indonesia Humanities Fund
Priority area: Leading in our region
This fund will help advance the cause of Southeast Asian understanding in Australia, and celebrate Tony and Yohanni's enduring legacy.
Tony and Yohanni's time at ANU began in 1963, when Tony became the inaugural professor of Indonesian languages and literature at the ANU.
During their extensive time in Canberra and at ANU, Yohanni would become a critical figure of Indonesian teaching at the University and in Australia, producing a series of seminal Indonesian language textbooks.
Professor Tony Johns is a towering figure in the scholarship on Southeast Asian Islam. Throughout his long career as a researcher and teacher at ANU, he emphasised the need for high linguistic competence, the close study of primary texts and history and an intimate knowledge of the religious life of communities in the region.
The fund will provide support for an annual Tony and Yohanni Johns Lecture, which will focus on humanities studies across Nusantara, the Malay and Islamic worlds, and Austronesia.
This lecture series will also recognise and express the depth of humanities research in the ANU community, allowing the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific to encourage some of the finest minds in the study of Islam and Indonesia studies to join with and share their expertise with our wider community.
The Tony and Yohanni Johns Endowment was made possible by the generosity of Emeritus Professor Anthony Reid, as well as friends and family of Tony and Yohanni Johns.
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