PETER CAREY
PERSONAL
Peter
was born in Rangoon, Burma on 30 April 1948, the second son of parents who had
both made their lives in Asia. He returned to England in 1955 and was educated
in the UK. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford (the first member of his
family ever to go to Oxford) in 1966 and graduated with First Class Honours in
Modern History in 1969. After graduating, he was awarded an English Speaking
Union (ESU) scholarship and spent a year on a taught MA course in Southeast
Asian Studies at Cornell University in the United States where he first became
interested in Southeast Asia (Indonesia in particular).
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE (OXFAM and CAMBODIA TRUST)
Peter served as a member of the OXFAM Asia Committee
from 1986 to 1991 and during that time co-founded the Cambodia Trust (CT) (7
November 1989), a UK disability charity which is now a world leader in the
provision of international-quality training in prosthetics & orthotics. He
was a member of the Cambodia Trust’s board of trustees from December 1989 to
August 2008, serving as chair (1990-1996) and deputy chair (2004-8). He
resigned from the board in August 2008 to take up the post of Country Director
in Indonesia (August 2008-March 2011). During this time, he was involved with
the establishment of CT in Cambodia in 1990-92, and visited Cambodia every year
from 1989 to 1997, the year of CT’s first graduation at the Cambodian School of
Prosthetics & Orthotics. He also pioneered CT’s presence in Timor-Leste,
carrying out a number of preparatory visits to the country in 2000 and acting
as CT Country Director from October 2003 to September 2004, during which time
he established ASSERT (Association for the Raising Up of the Disabled of Timor)
and the National Centre for Physical Rehabilitation in Becora (Dili). Peter was
awarded the Independence Medal by the Government of the Democratic Republic of
Timor-Leste and made a Grand Officer in the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator
(Ordem Infante Dom Henrique), the
highest civilian honour accorded to non-Portuguese citizens, by the Portuguese
Government for his work in Timor-Leste. In November 2008, he was given the
Beacon Prize for Leadership (citation: ‘[for] making an exceptional
contribution in co-founding the Cambodia Trust and leading its expansion across
Cambodia into Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka and Indonesia’) by the Beacon Fellowship
Charitable Trust (London), an award sometimes described as the Nobel Prize for charity
work. On 12 June 2010 he was awarded the MBE (Membership of the Honourable
Order of the British Empire) for services to the disabled in Southeast Asia,
and on 21 June 2011, he received the BNP-Paribas special or prix du jury award for Individual Philanthropy
with prize money worth €50,000 for the Cambodia Trust. The awarding jury asked
this to be allocated to support research into levels of disability in
Indonesian society and the planning for the second phase of the Trust’s
Indonesia programme with the Ministry of Health.
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Before his early
retirement, Peter was Laithwaite Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Trinity
College, Oxford (1979-2008), specialising in the modern history and politics of
Indonesia, Burma and East Timor. Amongst his publications were:
Indonesia The Power of Prophecy; Prince Dipanagara and
the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785-1855 (Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007, 2nd edition, 2008), a
full-length biography of Indonesia’s national hero, Prince Diponegoro
(1785-1855), an Indonesian translation of which was published by Kepustakaan
Populer Gramedia [KPG] in Jakarta on 20 February 2012 under the title: Kuasa Ramalan: Pangeran Diponegoro dan Akhir
Tatanan Lama di Jawa, 1785-1855. He also edited The British in Java, 1811-1816. A Javanese Account (OUP for the
British Academy, 1992); The Archive of
Yogyakarta: Volume I: Documents relating to Politics and Internal Court
Affairs; Volume II: Documents relating to Economic and Agrarian Affairs
(London: OUP for the British Academy, 1980 and 2000); and Babad Dipanagara: An Account of the Outbreak of the Java War (1825-30)
(Kuala Lumpur: Art Printers for the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic
Society, 1981). His most recent article on this period is: ‘Revolutionary Europe and the destruction of
Java’s Old Order, 1808-1830’, in David Armitage and Sanjay Subhramanyan (eds), “The Age of Revolutions” or “World Crisis”:
Global Causation, Connection and Comparison, c. 1760-1840 (Houndmills:
Macmillan, 2009).
Indonesian Pre-Colonial History and Archaeology: (with Amrit Gomperts and Arnoud Haag) ‘Stutterheim’s
Enigma; The mystery of his mapping of the Majapahit kraton at Trowulan in
1941’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en
Volkenkunde (Leiden), 164, 4:411-30; ‘Mapping Majapahit: Wardenaar’s Archaeological Survey at
Trowulan in 1815’, Indonesia (Cornell
University, Ithaca) no.93 (April 2012); and ‘The Sage
who Divided Java in 1052:Maclaine Pont’s Excavation of Mpu Bharada’s
Hermitage-Cemetery at Lĕmah Tulis in 1925’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Leiden) 168, 1
(forthcoming June 2012).
East Timor (with G. Carter Bentley), East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of
a Nation (London: Cassell, 1995); (with Steve Cox), Generations of Resistance: East Timor (London: Cassell, 1995); East Timor: Third World Colonialism and the
Struggle for National Identity (Coventry: Research Institute for the Study
of Conflict and Terrorism, 1996); ‘The
Security Council and East Timor’, in Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Walsh
and Dominik Zaum (eds), The Security
Council and War (Oxford: OUP, 2008)
Burma: Burma.
The Challenge of Change in a Divided Society (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997)
and From Burma to Myanmar: Military Rule
and the Struggle for Democracy (Coventry: Research Institute for the Study
of Conflict and Terrorism, 1997.
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LINGUISTIC ABILITY
Indonesian/Malay
- fluent
French
- fluent
Javanese
– fluent
Dutch
- reading knowledge (fluent)
Portuguese
- reading knowledge (good)
Peter
can be contacted at:
Email: petercarey@cambodiatrust.org.uk;
Skype: peterc1948
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