My three weeks as visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Business Administration and Communication Sciences FIABIKOM at the Catholic University of Indonesia Atma-Jaya in Jakarta were enriching in exchanging knowledge, academic and socio-cultural activities. (DR. HADI SABA AYON: DOSEN TAMU PRODI ILMU KOMUNIKASI FIABIKOM DARI LE HAVRE UNIVERSITY, PERANCIS.)

After years of international collaboration with the School of Communication, Atma Jaya became my HOME in Indonesia, and FIABIKOM my betawi family. My visit to Atma Jaya this year started with the 7th International conference on corporate and marketing communication (ICCOMAC) during which my friend Fabien Liénard, the chief of our research unit (IDEES Le Havre) at Université Le Havre Normandie was a speaker.

I also had pleasant and enriching discussions with students and scholars with whom I debated digital issues, multiculturalism and my  educational and social life trajectories.

My stay at Atma Jaya was also an apportunity to participate in other activities with the Indonesian communication community: a conference on “Artificial intelligence and the future of communication” organized by the indonesian association of communication researchers (ISKI) in Semarang; a lecture on “The Internet as a crisis communication” at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Universitas Indonesia; and a general lecture on “Communication, diversity and disability in cultural perspective” at Al Azhar University.

I was very glad to finish my mission with success and prepare new projects for the next year with colleagues that I learned to appreciate more and more. Yesterday FIABIKOM surprised me with a video that they produced to thank me. It touched me deeply and drew my attention to the fact that I had in Indonesia a pied-à-terre. Thank you FIABIKOM, thank you Atma Jaya. We still have a long and fruitful way to trace and walk.