Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) was established in 2008 by the Government of Indonesia as the implementing agency of Bali Democracy Forum. It was inaugurated by the President of Indonesia on 10 December 2008.
IPD is headquartered in Bali and established based on Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia and Udayana University, Bali. The Ministry also conducted an international search to fill the position of the Executive Director of IPD.
To support the activities of IPD, the Government of Indonesia allocated special state fund to build IPD’s headquarter on the land provided by Udayana University.
Over the years IPD realizes that in order to work and manage donor’s funding efficiently and with flexibility and accountability, IPD needs to change its legal status to become a foundation.
With guidance and recommendation from the state’s auditor body or Badan Pengawas Keuangan dan Pembangunan, in 2015 IPD legally and officially becomes a foundation. The changing of IPD’s legal status has no implication to its programs and networks. IPD has wide access to the Government of Indonesia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in particular, to the governments of the country partners and those of donor countries. In implementing programs and activities, IPD works closely with those institutions, its networks at national, regional and international levels (like-minded organizations, think-tanks, universities and Governments), and pool of experts on issues of election, political party, media, decentralization, human rights, etc.
A peaceful and democratic world, delivering on its promise of balancing social justice and growth through public institutions that are responsive, accountable and respect the aspirations and diversity of all people and a strong and vibrant civil society.
Mission
IPD is a learning community which promotes the free exchange of ideas and works in partnership with national governments and their representative institutions, civil society organizations, higher education institutions, think-tanks, and media.
IPD shares experiences, lessons learned, practical knowledge and skills on peace and democracy in the Asia-Pacific and other regions through workshops, dialogues, round-table discussions, training, election visits, research and publications. IPD strongly believes in freedom, equality and accountability, while retaining a sense of strategic purpose and a focus on home-grown, contextualized processes of democracy.
• Sharing experiences and lessons learned on democracy and peace
• Building knowledge on democracy and peace
• Developing knowledge and skills of democratic institutions
• Promoting democratic values and principles
• Strengthening IPD as a think-tank and support system institution
IPD has made a concrete contribution in responding to the tide of democracy that swept across much of the Middle East and North Africa. In this context IPD has initiated a series of workshops in cooperation with various stakeholders in Egypt and Tunisia to share experiences in nurturing and consolidating democracy. IPD also focuses its supports and programs to ASEAN, particularly Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (CLMV). In Indonesia, IPD has conducted training for journalists about democracy and peace, political party leadership programs, discussed about presidential democracy, etc.
