Kevin Evans

Indonesia Director

The Australia-Indonesia Centre

Kevin Evans has been the Indonesia director for the Australia-Indonesia Centre since 2015.

His work and interest in Southeast Asia has spanned 40 years with 32 in Indonesia working as a diplomat, stock broker, academic and NGO activist.

With the onset of political reform in Indonesia in 1998 he became engaged in a wide range of governance issues in constitutional, civil service, electoral, parliamentary and political parties and decentralisation.

Initially he worked inside the presidential team that drafted the first post Soeharto era political laws that promoted the democratisation of the political system.

Kevin lived for four years in Aceh working with the minister of post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction to create policies and lead institutions focused on corruption prevention. He has also worked with the Indonesian President’s Delivery Unit, UKP4, advising on a number of environmental governance programs.

Kevin was posted by the UN to Afghanistan during 2002-2003 to assist in developing new commissions governing the civil service, human rights, elections, the judicial system and constitutional reform. He has also been engaged in supporting reforms to election and counter-corruption systems in Egypt, East Timor, Fiji and Turkey.

Kevin’s interest in electoral politics has led him to develop his own website that transforms Indonesian election results into colourful charts, tables and maps and he is often called on to speak and write about his knowledge.