The Australia-Indonesia Institute Annual Grants Round 2025-26

The Australia-Indonesia Institute (AII) seeks to strengthen the Australia-Indonesia relationship in ways that enhance mutual understanding and people-to-people links.

The objectives of the grant are:

• To develop partnerships, raise awareness and build capability in areas of shared interest
• To increase public awareness of Australia in Indonesia, and of Indonesia in Australia, and the importance of the bilateral relationship across a broad audience 
• To increase Australians’ capacity to effectively engage with Indonesia and Indonesians’ ability to effectively engage with Australia.

Key themes of the grant are: 

• Language, Culture and the Arts
• Sport
• Climate Resilience
• Economic Cooperation

Cross-cutting considerations for the 2025-26 AII Grants Round opportunity are: proposals from First Nations Australians (FNA) / FNA organisations, including those that showcase Australia’s First Nations culture, arts, sports engagement and climate adaptation approaches, and proposals that include advancing gender equality, disability equity and social inclusion through language, culture, the arts, sport and climate resilience, are encouraged.

The intended outcomes of the Grant are: 

• To strengthened bilateral relationship and enhanced capability in areas of mutual interest
• To strengthened networks, collaboration and connections between Australian and Indonesian institutions and communities to build understanding, trust and influence
• To enhanced Australian reputation and reach in Indonesia through the promotion of language, culture, creativity, sports, and innovation
• To increased Australian understanding of the cultures and opportunities in Indonesia, and Indonesian understanding of modern, multicultural, multifaith Australia.

This scheme's UQ Indirect Costs rate is 0%, as noted in the UQ Indirect Costs Variation Register.

Global Partnerships supports the Global Engagement Framework. The Global Strategy and Partnerships (GSP) team welcome enquiries to identify potential partners in Indonesia. 

Learn more about the grants, eligibility requirements and the application process:

Overview

Funding

• The estimated grant value is from $20,000 to $75,000 for 12-24 months.
• Co-contributions from other parties strengthen an application and are encouraged.
• Grants cannot be used for your organisation's fixed or recurrent expenditure, including subsidies for the general ongoing administration of an organisation, such as electricity, phone, rent, salaries (including for research assistants or administrative staff), honorariums and/or administrative charges levied by the applicant's organisation. For further details, please refer to the grant guidelines.

Eligibility

Eligibility and important information relating to the grant can be found in the guidelines.

How to apply

All applications must be submitted electronically by the applicant using DFAT's SmartyGrants online application form by 11am AEST on 14 November 2025.

The GSP team will provide a letter of support template, application cover sheet template to be completed by the applicant, brief UQ capacity statement, and information on UQ's engagement in the country of your application upon request. The templates and documents can be found under "Key Resources" on the right hand margin of this page.

Please allow 7 working days for the GSP team to process the letter of support (by 6 November 2025). Letter of support will be issued after the signed cover sheet is received by the GSP team.