Associates


Simon Butt, ALG Associate Director in Indonesia, 2006.

Mr Stewart Fenwick B.A./LL.B. (Melb), LL.M. (ANU)

Email: s.fenwick@asianlawgroup.com

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Stewart Fenwick joined the Asian Law Group in February 2002 and had overall responsibility for project development and implementation. In 2004 he took leave and was appointed Team Leader for the $21 million Indonesia-Australia Legal Development Facility (IALDF). He is now based in Jakarta. 

During 2002-03 Stewart managed the delivery of a wide range of training and capacity building activities in Indonesia and Australia. These activities included ALG’s specific and elementary training courses in Intellectual Property Rights (in which he also taught) under the IASTP II program and Advocacy Skills training under the Legal Reform Program Facility. 

Stewart was a contributor to the Asian Development Bank’s Governance Assessment of Mongolia and he has extensive work experience in that country. During 2000-01 he lectured at the School of Law, National University of Mongolia, and was the Resident Legal Training Adviser to the ADB Ministry of Commissioner for Refugees in Mongolia.

A qualified solicitor, Stewart was previously a Senior Legal Officer in the Australian Government and international legal adviser in the Office of the Status of Women and legal adviser in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.


Ms Samantha Hinderling lic.iur. (Basle), LL.M. (Melb)

Email: s.hinderling@asianlawgroup.com

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Samantha Hinderling, a law graduate of the University of Basle, is a lawyer from Switzerland, specializing in civil law systems and EU law. She joined the Asian Law Group as Associate Director in February 2004 and is responsible for overall project planning, management and implementation.

In 2005, Samantha coordinated projects in Indonesia and Vietnam. In addition to tendering, management of implementation and monitoring and evaluation Samantha has particular technical capacity in WTO law. In 2005 she authored a handbook on anti-dumping for the Vietnamese government and business community.

Samantha also holds a LLM degree from the University of Melbourne where she focused on Asian Law, Development and Human Rights Law. She has in-Australia experience in property management and worked as a project manager and researcher in the tertiary sector in Europe.

Samantha is fluent in French, German and English and has conversational knowledge of Vietnamese, Spanish and Italian. She travelled extensively in Asia.


Mr Simon Butt B.A. (Hons) (Asian Studies - Indonesian), LL.B. (Hons) (ANU)

Email: indolaw@bigpond.net.au

Asian Law Group, PO Box 5084, Glenferrie South, Hawthorn, Victoria Australia 3122
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A graduate in law and arts at the Australian National University, Simon Butt has also studied law at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. He was awarded the ANU Medal for Asian Studies with Honours for his 1996 thesis on the Indonesian Supreme Court and the Blackburn Medal for Research in Law in 2001 for his thesis on Intellectual Property Law in Indonesia. Simon is currently completing his PhD on the Indonesian Judicial System at the University of Melbourne.

While still completing his legal studies, Simon was recruited by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as an Indonesian language interpreter and joined the Asian Law Group in 1999 as a legal interpreter. He has near-native fluency in Indonesian.

Simon is currently a lecturer for ALG with extensive experience in designing, coordinating and delivering professional development courses for judges, prosecutors, police and customs officials. His areas of expertise include intellectual property rights and Indonesian criminal law.

Since 1999 Simon has developed bilingual legal Indonesian-English language materials particularly in intellectual property, criminal procedure and counter-terrorism.


Mr Rob Baiton B.A. (Asian Studies) (UOW), LL.B. (UWS)

A graduate of the University of Western Sydney, Rob has been a long-term resident of Indonesia. Rob first came to Indonesia as an Australian Volunteer Abroad and most recently as the Managing Editor of Hukumonline – Indonesia’s premier legal information website.

While completing his legal studies, Rob worked at the Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporate Legal Service and appeared in matters at the Local, District, and the Supreme Court of Appeal, as well as brief Counsel in the High Court of Australia. He has also appeared in both the Children’s and Coroner’s Courts in NSW.

Rob has wide-ranging experience and knowledge of the Indonesian legal system and maintains near-native fluency in Indonesian. He currently lectures in International Law and International Advocacy at the University of Indonesia. Rob has also contributed to delivering ALG’s professional development courses in Advanced Legal Language Facilitation.


Mr Kien C Nguyen LL.B. (Hanoi), LL.M. (Melb), JD (Melb)

Kien C Nguyen  was admitted as a lawyer  to the Supreme Court of the ACT and the High Court of Australia in 2005. He holds JD and LLM degrees from the University of Melbourne, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the ANU and an LLB degree from Vietnam. Prior to moving to private practice, he was an associate to Justice Kenny of the Federal Court of Australia.

Prior to undertaking his graduate studies, Kien was with the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam (“the SPC”) for 9 years. He first worked as a judges’ associate at the Court of Appeal of the SPC and then as a legal expert  in the SPC’s Department of International Cooperation. He has been involved in many international projects while working within the SPC funded by the following donors: UNDP; UNICEF; Danida; JICA; USAID; and AusAID. Most recently, Kien was the editor for the electronic version of the Benchbook (Benchbook Project - AUSAID) and a consultant in the Child Friendly Courts Project (UNICEF).

Kien has strong knowledge of the Vietnamese and Australian legal system. Apart from his experience in international projects, he has expertise in international trade law, corporation law and investment law.

Kien is a NAATI professional translator (English – Vietnamese).


Mr Irianto Subiakto S.H., LL.M. (Essex)

Irianto Subiakto is an experienced and highly–regarded Indonesian lawyer. He established his own practice since leaving the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute, where he was Director in 2003. Irianto is a specialist in human rights law and has been lecturing in this subject at Tarumanagara University since 2001. He has been defence counsel in a large number of high-profile Indonesian trials and was recently nominated to the Judicial Commission of Indonesia.

Irianto is also one of the few Indonesian lawyers who have successfully completed the Victorian Bar Reader’s Course in Australia, which prepares lawyers for practice as barristers. He thus has a deep knowledge of the conduct of trials in both civil and common law legal systems.


Mr Tomi Suryo Utomo S.H. (UGM), LL.M. (Melb)

Tomi Suryo Utomo is a lecturer in law at the University of Janabadra, Yogyakarta and PhD candidate at the University of Washington, Seattle.

A fluent English speaker and legal interpreter, Tomi's Master of Laws degree from the University of Melbourne included a special focus on the intellectual property law and policy problems facing developing countries. He currently teaches intellectual property law to Indonesian students and is researching copyright reform in Indonesia, as well as patent regulation of pharmaceuticals in developing countries.

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