Solahudin has been a researcher on jihadi movements in Indonesia for more than a decade. He is the author of The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2013). He was recently a visiting research scholar at CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) Kyoto University. Before that he was a journalist and press freedom activist, including as Secretary-General of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) from 2001to 2003. His advocacy in cases of violence against journalists includes successfully acting as a mediator in the release of two Belgian journalists held hostage by the Free Papua Movement (OPM) in Papua in 2001. He was also a member of the mediation team that negotiated the release an Indonesian journalist held by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in 2004.