The Nusantara Society

The main aims of Nusantara Society's scientific activity are establishing contacts with scientific institutions and universities in Nusantara, Europe, the USA, and Australia, organizing exchange of books, periodicals, and other materials, working out joint research projects, arranging conferences and seminars. The Society intends to encourage the research work of postgraduates and students and to facilitate academic visits abroad of Russian specialists, postgraduates, and students. As far as is in its power, it is ready to favour the exchange of information between countries in Nusantara and Russia, organize all kinds of exhibitions, performances, video and film reviews, as well as facilitating tours between the two sides.
As it does not yet have any office of its own, the Nusantara Society is greatly obliged to the Moscow Centre of the Russian Geographic Society (RGS), where the Malay-Indonesian Seminars -- the starting point for the Nusantara Society -- have been held for a long time. The Nusantara Society also maintains close cooperation with the Institute of Asian and African Countries, University of Moscow, which now serves as the depository for the gift library of Nusantara Society, presented mainly by the Leiden University and the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) in the Netherlands, the University of Malaya, Malayan Language and Literary Agency (DBP), the University of Singapore, and the Australian National University.
The expenses of the Society are defrayed from the small fund made up of member's fees and some donations by the KITLV, DBP, and PRIMA Comexindo (Rus) Ltd.

Board
President: Professor Boris Parnickel
Vice-presidents: Professor Alexander Ogloblin and Dr. Nickolai Tolmachev
Secretary: Dr Tatiana Dorofeeva
Members: Professor Vilen Sikorsky, Drs Cyril Mironov, Drs Marc Ulianov

The Nusantara Society
14-1-67 Dybenko Str
Moscow 125475
Russia
Tel: +7-95-451 7987
Fax: +7-95-200 3216 / 203 3647