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Ben Clanchy
Profession: Foreign Legal Consultant, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Qualifications:
B.A., Australian National University.
B.Sc., Australian National University.
LL.B., (Hons.1st), Australian National University.
Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, NSW College of Law, 2008.

NAATI-accredited Professional Translator (Indonesian --> English, National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, Australia).

Admitted as Lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 2008.

* Roughly speaking, translation is the written rendering of an original text in one language into its equivalent in another.
   If you want speech rendered, then you need an interpreter.

Since 2004, I have worked mainly in Jakarta and spent 3 years in the diplomatic corps, working out of the trade and economics section of the Australian Embassy. I have also worked in a number of positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra, most recently as Legal Counsel to the Department's Free Trade Agreement Taskforce.

I took a year of my law degree at the University of Texas at Austin and worked as a paralegal for an Austin litigation firm. In addition to my native tongue, English, I speak Indonesian and Italian.

Career history: 5 years in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including 3 years in the Economic and Trade section of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. Currently working as a Foreign Legal Consultant at Makarim & Taira S., Indonesia's leading corporate & commercial law firm.

Contact me at benclanchy [at] yahoo [dot com dot au]

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