Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir is a postdoctoral research visitor at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, and lecturer at the Department of Sociology, State University of Jakarta.
Satrio is a researcher at the Center for State Policy Studies in the Faculty of Law, Padjadjaran University.
Adnan Topan Husodo is the coordinator of Indonesia Corruption Watch. He holds a Master of Development Studies from the University of Melbourne.
Adriany Badrah is the director of the Celebes Institute and teaches sociology at Tadulako University (Untad) in Palu.
Ahmad Bukhori Muslim is a faculty member at the Department of English and Director of International Affairs, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. His research interests include international education and mobility, intercultural language learning, language and identity, Islamic education, and English education in religious studies. Current projects include The Indonesian Democracy Hallmark Research Initiative (IDeHRI), The University of Melbourne, and CALOHEA (Comparing Analysis of Learning Outcomes of Higher Education in Asia), with Groningen University, The Netherlands under Erasmus+ (co-investigator).
Ahmad Rizky M. Umar is a researcher and associate tutor at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he completed his PhD in 2022. He also teaches politics and International Relations at Griffith University. His thesis investigates the idea of Asia in world politics. He tweets regularly @analispolitik.
Ahmad Syarif is an analyst with Bowergroup Asia. He holds a master's degree from the University of Birmingham, where he wrote his thesis on the rise of hadrami religious authority in Palembang, South Sumatra.
Aisah Putri Budiatri is a researcher in the Centre for Political Studies at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P LIPI). She holds a master’s in political science from State University of New York at Albany. Her research focuses on political parties, the legislature, elections and the Papua conflict.
Akhmad Misbakhul Hasan is Secretary General of the Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency (FITRA). Prior to taking up this role in 2018, he was active for 15 years in NGOs, with a focus on macro-economics, governance, national and local planning and budgeting, gender-responsive budgeting, infrastructure, and other areas of public policy.
Al Makin is a lecturer in the sociology of religion at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (UIN) in Yogyakarta.
Alexander R Arifianto is a Research Fellow with the Indonesia Program, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research focuses on contemporary politics and political Islam in Indonesia.
Dr Alfindra Primaldhi completed his PhD at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Indonesia (UI), studying morality and political behaviour. He is now an adjunct researcher at the Demography Institute of the Faculty of Business and Economics at UI.
Ali Nur Sahid is a researcher at PUSAD Paramadina. He co-authored "Keluar dari Ekstremisme" and wrote his MA thesis on the "Kamisan" (Thursdays) protests, at Paramadina Graduate School in Jakarta.
Alwiya Shahbanu is a researcher for mining advocacy network Jaringan Advokasi Tambang (JATAM).
Amalia Puri Handayani holds master's degrees in social policy for development from Erasmus University (the Netherlands) and in women's studies from the University of Indonesia. She has been involved in research projects on violence against women and sexual and reproductive health with recent applications in abortion care.
Amanda Achmadi is a senior lecturer in Architectural Design (Asian Architecture and Urbanism) at the Melbourne School of Design. Amanda completed her undergraduate degree in architecture at Bandung’s Parahyangan University and her doctorate degree in architecture and Asian studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research works explore how identity politics operate through architectural productions and formation of built environments in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia.
Amy Wu is a Master of Urban Planning student at the University of Melbourne.
Andi Rahman Alamsyah is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Indonesia. His research focuses on Islamic social movements and social change.
Andreas Harsono is Indonesia researcher at Human Rights Watch. He helped establish media freedom groups including the Alliance of Independent Journalists (1994), Institute for the Study of the Free Flow of Information (1995), the Pantau Foundation (2003), and the Bangkok-based South East Asia Press Alliance (1998). Follow him on Twitter @andreasharsono.
Andrew Wiguna Mantong is a researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta. He also teaches at the Department of International Relations at the University of Indonesia.
Andy Fuller is an honorary fellow at the Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne. He blogs about sport in Indonesia, and elsewhere, at readingsideways.net. His book, Football in Indonesia: Passion, Violence and Mismanagement will be published by Peter Lang in 2019.
Angus Campbell, leader of the Nossal Institute’s One Health Unit, is a practising livestock veterinarian who works with smallholder farmers and governments across Asia to improve animal and human wellbeing through sustainable livestock production.
Anna Margret is the director of and a researcher at Cakra Wikara Indonesia. She is also a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Indonesia.
Anna Rowe is a Master of Urban Planning student at the University of Melbourne.
Anne Suryani is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Anne has worked on a range of government-funded, consultancy and grant-based educational research activities in the Asia-Pacific Region. Her research interests include teacher motivation, teacher education, teacher professional development, and educational policy. Current projects: Leading to Improve Future Teachers (LIFT) Studies: www.liftstudies.org
Dr. Annisa R. Beta is a lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Antje Missbach is an associate of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society and a research fellow at the school of social sciences at Monash University.
Antoni Putra is a researcher with the Center for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK) in Jakarta.
Aprilia Ambarwati is a researcher at AKATIGA, the Centre for Social Analysis.
Ari Pramuditya is a researcher at Amnesty International Indonesia. He previously worked as a researcher at the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) and holds a master's in public international law from Leiden University.
Dr Ariane Utomo is a lecturer in demography at the School of Geography, The University of Melbourne.
Arjuni Rahmi Barasa is a junior researcher at the SMERU Research Institute in Jakarta.
Asep Suryahadi is the executive director of the SMERU Research Institute.
Ashlee Betteridge is the Manager at the Development Policy Centre. She was previously a Research Officer at the centre from 2013-2017. A former journalist, she holds a Master of Public Policy (Development Policy) from ANU and has development experience in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
Asri Saraswati is an Assistant Professor at the English Studies Program and American Studies Program, University of Indonesia. She teaches courses on American literature and society, literary criticism, popular culture, as well as race, gender, and ethnicity. Her work and research seek to understand the interplay between cultural politics and mobility of humans and capital.
Dr Avery Poole is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne
Awidya Santikajaya is PhD candidate at Australian National University. His PhD research concentrates on comparative foreign policies of non-BRIC emerging powers, using Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey as case studies. His study is funded by the World Bank-Government of Indonesia’s SPIRIT scholarship. He holds a master of international relations from The Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor degree in economics from University of Indonesia.
Bahruddin is a PhD candidate in the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at The University of Melbourne and a lecturer at the Department of Social Development and Welfare, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gadjah Mada University (UGM).
Balawyn Jones is a PhD candidate and Research Fellow at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She researches across the fields of Indonesian law and human rights, in particular with respect to gender, religion and law.
Ben Phillips is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne’s School of BioSciences.
Benjamin Hegarty is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, prior to which he was visiting scholar at the University of California Irvine. His research on the history of ‘transgender’ in Indonesia has received several awards and appears in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Transgender Studies Quarterly and Medicine Anthropology Theory. His collaborative research with Indonesian colleagues on the intersection of masculinity, sexuality and the provision of HIV care in Jakarta is ongoing.
Bivitri Susanti is a lecturer at the Jentera School of Law and a researcher with the Indonesian Center for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK).
Dr Budhy Munawar Rachman is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the Driyarkara School of Philosophy (STF) in Jakarta, a program officer at The Asia Foundation and a human rights and religious freedom activist.
Dr Budi Hernawan is an anthropologist and research fellow at the Abdurrahman Wahid Centre for Interfaith and Peace, University of Indonesia (UI) and a lecturer at the Graduate School of Paramadina University.
Cameron Sumpter is a Research Fellow with the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore.
Catriona Croft-Cusworth is an associate editor of Indonesia at Melbourne.
Charlotte Setijadi is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University.
Chaula Rininta Anindya is a PhD student at the Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. Her research interests include deradicalisation, counterterrorism policy, and civil-military relations in Indonesia.
Christian Donny Putranto has recently completed a Master of Laws (Human Rights) at the Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, as an Australian Awards Scholar. He previously worked at the UNHCR Indonesia and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Indonesia.
Citta Widagdo is a Doctoral Researcher in Public Health Law and Ethics at the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy, University of Birmingham School of Law. She obtained her LLB in Law from the University of Indonesia and her LLM in Health Care Law from University College London.
Damar Juniarto is the regional coordinator of the Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet).
Dani Alfah is a researcher at SurveyMETER, a research institute in Yogyakarta.
Daniel Pascoe is an assistant professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong
Daniel completed his PhD at Australian Catholic University in February 2019. He is the author of 'Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia: The Trial of Ahok'. He is an associate of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) at the University of Melbourne.
Dave McRae is a Senior Lecturer at the Asia Institute in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He is also an Associate at the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society.
Dédé Oetomo is a long-time activist and student of gender and sexual diversity in Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific region. He is also an adjunct lecturer in gender and sexuality at Universitas Airlangga.
Devika is a researcher at the HIV/AIDS Research Centre (PPH) at Atma Jaya University in Jakarta.
Dewi Fortuna Anwar is a leading analyst on Indonesia’s foreign policy and democratisation, as well as on ASEAN and regional political and security issues. She currently serves as deputy for government policy support in the Secretariat of the Vice President and research professor at the Centre for Politics, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P-LIPI). She has held numerous senior positions, including assistant minister/state secretary for foreign affairs and deputy secretary for political affairs during President BJ Habibie’s administration.
Diah Tricesaria works with Jesuit Refugee Service Indonesia, based in Cisarua, West Java.
Dian Maya Safitri is a public policy professional with expertise in social protection, fiscal decentralisation, human rights, and disability issues. She has worked at the United Nations, the Indonesian National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) in the Office of the Vice President, and Handicap International Indonesia and Timor-Leste. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a member of the Economy of Francesco, a value-based economic movement chaired by His Holiness Pope Francis consisting of 2,000 young policy makers, economists and social entrepreneurs from 115 countries.
Diana Contreras Suarez is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne.
Diane Zhang is a Melbourne-based economist who researches the use of data and information in policy formulation. She has over 15 years of experience working in public policy in Australia, Indonesia and China. In 2004-2010, she lived and worked in Indonesia, consulting for the World Bank, DFAT, United Nations and GTZ.
Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih is a PhD candidate at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. She is also a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia. Her thesis, which is currently under examination, focuses on the expansion of precarious work tied to the gig economy and shaped by neoliberalism. Her ongoing research deals with precarity and Islamic populism in Indonesia.
Dimas is a lecturer in economic and consumer psychology at the University of Surabaya, and a behavioural scientist at behaviour change agency nudgeplus.net. His research focuses on human attention, limited cognitive resources, and decision making.
Dr Dina Afrianty is a research fellow at La Trobe Law School and founder of the Australia-Indonesia Disability Research and Advocacy Network (AIDRAN). She is also an associate of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) at Melbourne Law School. She received her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2011.
Dirga Ardiansa is a researcher at the Cakra Wikara Indonesia research association.
Dirk Tomsa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University.
Dr Donald Greenlees is a senior advisor to Asialink, University of Melbourne, and a visiting fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
Donny is an economics PhD student at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. His research interests include economic development, natural resources, and trade.
Edward Aspinall is a Professor in the Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He researches politics in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, with interests in democratisation, ethnicity, and clientelism, among other topics.
Eka Nugraha Putra is a Doctor of Juridical Science candidate at Indiana University-Maurer School of Law, USA, and a law lecturer at Universitas Merdeka Malang, Indonesia.
Elena Williams is a higher education consultant and PhD researcher at The Australian National University where she researches the impact of study abroad programs on Australia-Indonesia people-to-people relationship building. Between 2013-2017 she served as resident director with The Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies (ACICIS), based in Yogyakarta.
Dr Elisabeth Kramer is deputy director at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the intersection between discourse, identity and politics in Indonesia. Current research interests include corruption, the tobacco industry and political empowerment for people with disabilities.
Emilianus Yakob Sese Tolo is a Master of Development Studies student at the University of Melbourne.
Eni Mulia is the executive director of the Indonesian Association for Media Development (Perhimpunan Pengembangan Media Nusantara, PPMN).
Erasmus Abraham Todo Napitupulu is the executive director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR). Apart from his position at ICJR, he is a well known criminal justice researcher who has worked with civil society and government. He has published on human rights, civil liberties, and criminal justice reform. He is also a certified lawyer who frequently submits petitions to the Constitutional Court to support law reform in Indonesia and represents cases related to the protection of human rights and civil liberties.
Erman A. Rahman is senior program director of The Asia Foundation Indonesia.
Eryanto Nugroho is a researcher at the Indonesian Centre for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK), and a lecturer at the Indonesia Jentera School of Law (STH Indonesia Jentera).
Evi Eliyanah is a faculty member at Universitas Negeri Malang. Her research areas of interest include gender and cultural studies.
Fathimah Fildzah Izzati is a researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). She is on the editorial board of IndoPROGRESS, an online journal connecting progressive scholars and activists in Indonesia. She has been a member of the Sindikasi Union committee since 2019.
Feri Kusuma is an activist, lawyer and deputy coordinator of the Commission for Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS). Since 2006, Feri has actively advocated for the establishment and supported the work of the Aceh TRC. He is also involved in advocacy for the Papua and national TRCs.
Gaby Gabriela Langi is a researcher at the HIV AIDS Research Center at Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia (ARC AJCUI): Center of Excellence for Health Policy and Social Innovation. She holds a master's degree in public health from Gadjah Mada University.
Gaston Soehadi holds a PhD in film studies from the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University.
Gavin Height is a research assistant at La Trobe University. His research interests include Indonesian electoral politics, and gender and sexuality. He has been published in The Jakarta Post and The New Daily, and co-hosts the Digital Indonesia podcast.
George Sukoco is a research analyst with the Inovasi program. He holds a Master of Science in Quantitative Research Methods from University College London.
Giri Ahmad Taufik is a researcher at the Center For Law and Policy Studies (PSHK) and a PhD candidate at Griffith University.
Associate Professor Greg Fealy is the head of the Department of Political and Social Change at The Australian National University and a specialist on Islamic politics in Indonesia. He is a senior associate of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS).
Hal Tilemann is an Australian lawyer who recently spent a year in Indonesia, where he undertook intensive language training and worked on criminal law reform matters.
Hannah Loney is a final year PhD candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research explores women, violence and everyday life during the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor (1975-99).
Hellena Souisa is PhD candidate at the Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne. Her research areas include media and politics, media economics, broadcast media, and journalism.
Hendri Yulius is a researcher and writer. He is the author of a number of books, including Coming Out, now available at Gramedia. He holds a master's degree from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Dr Herlambang P Wiratraman is a lecturer and executive director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, Airlangga University. He is also chair of the Indonesian Lecturers Association for Human Rights (SEPAHAM Indonesia, 2014-2017) and previously served as head of the Indonesian Association of Legal Philosophy (AFHI, 2013-2014).
Heru Samosir is a researcher at the Cakra Wikara Indonesia research association.
Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge is a researcher at the Marthinus Academy in Jakarta. His current research focuses on democratisation in developing countries, particularly the role of crucial actors such as the military during democratic transition and consolidation. He has conducted fieldwork in West Papua on the role of Papuan youth in political and cultural identity during the special autonomy era.
Houtmand P Saragih is a managing editor at Indonesia Finance Today and a gemstone enthusiast.
Howard Dick is an honorary professorial fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and conjoint professor in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Newcastle (NSW).
Ian Wilson is a lecturer in politics and international studies and a research fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. He is the author of The Politics of Protection Rackets in Post-New Order Indonesia: Coercive Capital, Authority and Street Politics, published by Routledge in 2015.
Ibnu Nadzir is a researcher at the Center for Culture and Society in the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). He holds a master's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam.
Dr Ignatius Praptoraharjo (Gambit) is a research consultant at the Center for Health Policy and Management at Gadjah Mada University. He completed his doctorate 2010 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative visiting scholar in 2020.
Ihsan Ali Fauzi is director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Democracy (PUSAD) Paramadina and a lecturer at Paramadina Graduate School.
Imang Jasmine (Imam Syafrudien As) is a freelance photographer based in Jakarta.
Inaya Rakhmani is a lecturer at the Department of Communications, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia and the head of its Communication Research Centre. She is an associate at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, and a member of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (ALMI).
Iqbal Aji Daryono writes for many online publications in Indonesia. His experiences of multiculturalism as a truck driver in Australia are detailed in his book, "Out of the Truck Box".
Dr Iqra Anugrah is a research fellow at the Institute for Economic and Social Research, Education, and Information (LP3ES) in Jakarta. He is also a contributing editor for Indoprogress, an online platform connecting progressive scholars and activists in Indonesia. He currently serves as an Indonesia-based correspondent fellow for New Mandala.
Irfan Abubakar is the director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) in Jakarta.
Irsyad Rafsadie is a researcher at PUSAD Paramadina. He has co-authored “Policing Religious Conflicts in Indonesia” and co-edited “Basudara Stories of Peace from Maluku: Working Together for Reconciliation.”
Ismail Hasani is research director at the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace. He is also a lecturer at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta.
Isobel Grounds is an honours student in Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Jacqui Baker is a Lecturer in Southeast Asian Studies at Murdoch University. She is also a co-host of the Talking Indonesia podcast.
Jamhari Makruf is the vice rector of the newly established Indonesian International Islamic University in Jakarta. He is on the advisory board of the Centre for Study of Islam and Society (PPIM) at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, and is an advisor to AIPJ2 (Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Justice).
Dr Jemma Purdey is a Fellow at the Australia Indonesia Centre and Adjunct Fellow, Deakin University. She is the author of Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia 1996-1999, published by NUS Press.
Jenny Munro is an anthropologist who has worked on gender, health and sexuality in Indonesia since 2003. Her 2018 book, Dreams Made Small, explores the racialisation of education in West Papua, while her more recent research activity focuses on how racism affects health care.
Dr Jeremy J. Kingsley is an anthropologist and a legal scholar of Indonesia working as Senior Lecturer at Swinburne Law School, Melbourne, Australia.
Jeremy Mulholland is executive director of Investindo International and researcher in international marketing and Indonesian political economy at La Trobe University.
Dr Jess Melvin is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and was previously Henry Hart Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Genocide Studies at Yale University. She completed her PhD, "Mechanics of Mass Murder: How the Indonesian Military Initiated and Implemented the Indonesian Genocide: The Case of Aceh," at the University of Melbourne in 2014.
Jimmy Daniel Berlianto Oley is a junior researcher at the SMERU Research Institute in Jakarta.
Joost Coté is Senior Research Fellow (History) in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University. He is the editor and translator of Kartini: The Complete Writings 1898-1904.
Jordan Newton is a countering violent extremism (CVE) consultant on social media extremism and former counter-terrorism analyst with the Australian government.
Joseph Marshan is a PhD Candidate at the Research School of Economics, Australian National University. His research interests include labour economics, family economics, and gender norms.
Julia Ikasarana is a researcher at the Cakra Wikara Indonesia research association.
Kanti Pertiwi is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. She is also a lecturer in management at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Indonesia and previously worked for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Her dissertation is titled: “'But that’s not corruption': An interpretive approach to business-government relations to corruption in Indonesia". She can be reached at kanti.pertiwi@ui.ac.id.
Kate Grealy is a PhD student at the Australian National University. She has worked in national crime prevention and counter terrorism in Australia, and in violence monitoring and international development in Indonesia.
Kate Thresher holds an honours in Asian Studies, is a New Colombo Plan alumna, and is completing a Bachelor of Laws (hons) at Murdoch University.
Kate Walton is a Jakarta-based development worker and activist.
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Dr Ken Setiawan is a Lecturer in Asian and Indonesian Studies at the Asia Institute. She is also an Associate of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) at Melbourne Law School.
Dr Krishna Hort is senior technical consultant at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne. He has worked in health assistance programs in South and Southeast Asia for more than 25 years, including 20 years of periodic work in Indonesia.
Krisna is a PhD student of economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. His research focuses mainly on trade and investment liberalisation and its impact on firms in Indonesia.
Laras Susanti is a lecturer in law at Universitas Gadjah Mada. She holds a master's degree of law (LLM) from the University of Washington, Seattle and is pursuing her doctoral degree at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Law, specialising in family law. She received her doctoral scholarship from Fulbright and the Center for International Legal Education (CILE) at the University of Pittsburgh.
Leopold Sudaryono is a criminologist and PhD candidate at Australian National University (ANU).
Lies Marcoes is a women's rights activist, writer and researcher and the director of Rumah Kita Bersama Foundation. Lies holds a master's in anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. She lives in Bogor.
Assoc. Prof Linda Rae Bennett is a medical anthropologist based at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Her key areas of expertise are: sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender-based violence (GBV), and health equity and inclusion.
Lisa Cameron is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne.
Luqman is a PhD candidate at the Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne. His doctoral research focuses on Islamism and the state in Indonesia. In Indonesia, Luqman is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.
Lury is a PhD candidate in Behavioural Economics at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on lie theory. He leads the Indonesia Behavioural Economics Forum (IBEF), a multidisciplinary team advocating behavioural economics for a better life.
Mohamad Doddy Kusadrianto is director of law programs at The Asia Foundation in Jakarta.
M. Nur Sholikin is a researcher at the Indonesian Center for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK) and a lecturer at Indonesia Jentera School of Law.
Dr Mada Sukmajati is a lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. His research interests include political parties, elections and the legislature. He can be reached at: mada_s@ugm.ac.id.
Mahalli is communications officer and a researcher with the Australia-Indonesia Disability Research and Advocacy Network (AIDRAN). He is also a researcher at Center for Disability Studies and Services Brawijaya University (PSLD UB).
Maidina Rahmawati is a program manager at the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR). She is concerned with the protection of victims, the eradication of gender-based violence, and advocacy and support for gender equality. Maidina believes that the ideal criminal justice system must be designed and implemented with a gender perspective.
Mark Quigley is associate professor of earthquake science in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Matthew Busch is a PhD candidate at Melbourne Law School, where his research focuses on the Indonesian state and political economy of economic management. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute.
Matthew Wai-Poi is a senior economist with the World Bank in Jakarta, where he leads the analytical work program on poverty and inequality.
Dr Melissa Crouch is a Lecturer in the Law Faculty, at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is an Associate of the Centre for Indonesian Law and Islam at the University of Melbourne. Her most recent publication is an edited volume on Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging.
Merah Johansyah is the National Coordinator for mining advocacy network Jaringan Advokasi Tambang (JATAM).
Mia Novitasari is a researcher at the Cakra Wikara Indonesia research association.
Michael Ewing is an Associate Professor In Indonesian at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
Moh Zaki Arrobi is a PhD researcher working for the ‘Sacralizing Security: Religion, Violence, and Authority’ (SACRASEC) project at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is also a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.
Mohammad Ibrahim teaches constitutional law in the Faculty of Law, Gadjah Mada University (UGM).
Dr Monika Winarnita is Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at Deakin University. She is also an Associate at the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Canada, where she completed her postdoctoral fellowship.
Ammar is a PhD student researching gender politics in post-reformasi Indonesia at the University of Queensland. He also now serves as the head of the socio-cultural protection commission of the Overseas Indonesian Students’ Association Alliance (PPI Dunia).
Muhammad Waffaa Kharisma is a researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Jakarta, where he has worked on issues including foreign policy, the security dynamics of the Indo-Pacific, Indonesia’s maritime security, the geopolitics and foreign policy drivers around the Korean peninsula, and the humanitarian situation in Myanmar. He holds a Master of Science from University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
Muninggar Sri Saraswati is a lecturer in the communications department of Swiss German University in Tangerang, Indonesia, and a freelance journalist. She holds a PhD in Asian Studies from Murdoch University. Her thesis, "The Political Campaign Industry and the Emergence of Social Media in Post-Authoritarian Indonesian Electoral Politics” examined the use of social media in the 2012 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election, the 2013 Makassar Mayoral Election and the 2014 Presidential Election.
Nadirsyah Hosen is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Monash University and the chair of the advisory board for the Australia-New Zealand branch of Nahdlatul Ulama. He is an associate of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the Melbourne Law School.
Naila Rizqi Zakiah is a public defender at LBH Masyarakat. LBH Masyarakat is a non-profit organisation that provide free legal aid for marginalised groups such as LGBTIQ, people living with HIV, drug users, sex workers and people facing the death penalty or execution in Indonesia.
Nanang Indra Kurniawan is a PhD candidate at the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on participatory mapping of customary land in Central Kalimantan.
Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He previously studied computer science, social psychology, and statistics, and is interested in voting behavior, political psychology, religion and politics, experimental methods, and causal inference.
Nava Nuraniyah is an analyst at the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), in Jakarta.
Nofalia Nurfitriani is a researcher at AKATIGA, the Centre for Social Analysis.
Novi Kurnia is a lecturer and the head of the postgraduate program at the Department of Communication Science at Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada. Novi completed her PhD at Flinders University, South Australia, in 2014. Her thesis was about women film directors and their films in post-New Order Indonesia.
Nur Fitri Widya Astuti is a researcher at SurveyMETER, a non-governmental research institute based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Nurkholis Hidayat is an Indonesian human rights lawyer and previously served as a director of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta), and national advisor for legal aid and criminal justice for the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice (AIPJ). He holds a master of laws from the University of Melbourne.
Ayu Swandewi is a lecturer and researcher at Udayana University, Bali, and senior project manager at the Bali Tobacco Control Initiative (BTCI).
Ayu graduated with a Master of Public Health from the University of Melbourne in 2008.
Putu Eka Andayani is a researcher at the Center for Health Policy and Management in the Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing at Gadjah Mada University.
R. Alam Surya Putra is deputy director of the environmental governance (SETAPAK) program, funded by the UK Climate Change Unit, for The Asia Foundation Indonesia.
Rachael Diprose is a lecturer in development studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. She also convenes the School's Conflict, Development and Justice Research Cluster.
Rachma Indah Nurbani is a senior researcher at the SMERU Research Institute, with research interests in food security, nutrition, child well-being, gender equality, shock and crisis, and government budgets.
Radityo Dharmaputra is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Universitas Airlangga. He is currently a PhD candidate and Junior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Rafiqa is a PhD student at Melbourne Law School and lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Indonesia.
Randy Wirasta Nandyatama is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Gadjah Mada University (UGM). From 2013 to early 2015 he was director of the ASEAN Studies Centre at UGM. He is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the role of Indonesian civil society organisations in the institutionalisation of human rights in ASEAN.
Ratri Ciptaningtyas is a lecturer in public health at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) in Jakarta.
Ratu Durotun Nafisah is a researcher at the Center for State Policy Studies in the Faculty of Law, Padjadjaran University.
Ravando Lie is a PhD candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. His thesis examines a Chinese-Indonesian newspaper called Sin Po (1910-1965) as a lens to explore the political movements and transnational connections of Chinese-Indonesian society in the Dutch East Indies.
Raynov Tumorang Pamintori is a research fellow at Reprieve. Reprieve is a London-based international legal charity that provides free legal support to some of the world’s most vulnerable people, including those who are facing the death penalty and execution.
Rendy Adriyan Diningrat is the Head of the Research Department at the SMERU Research Institute in Jakarta.
Dr Richard Chauvel is an honorary fellow at the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne.
Ricky Gunawan is a human rights lawyer and Director of LBH Masyarakat (Community Legal Aid Institute). LBH Masyarakat is a frontline human rights organisation that provide free legal services for people facing the death penalty or execution.
Rifqi Assegaf is a PhD candidate in the Melbourne Law School. He has previously served as assistant to the head of the Presidential Working Unit on the Supervision and Oversight of Development (UKP4), as head of research in the Judicial Mafia Task Force, and as director of the Indonesian Institute for an Independent Judiciary (LeIP).
Rika Theo is a PhD student in International Development Studies at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Riska Dwi Astuti is a researcher at SurveyMETER, a research institute in Yogyakarta.
Rizanna Rosemary is a PhD candidate in health communication at the University of Sydney
Rizky Argama is research director of the Indonesian Centre for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK) and a lecturer at the Indonesia Jentera School of Law (STH Indonesia Jentera). He holds a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne.
Dr Robertus Robet (@Republik_Baru) is the head of sociology at the State University of Jakarta (UNJ) and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) at the University of Melbourne.
Roni is a researcher at Cakra Wikara Indonesia with interests in gender, sexuality, religion, human rights, and state and society.
Professor Ross Garnaut AO is a professorial research fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne
Ruth Nikijuluw is a PhD Candidate at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. Her research focuses mainly on local public finance, regional economics and female participation in local politics.
Sana Jaffrey is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago’s Department of Political Science and a visiting fellow at the Center for Study of Religion and Democracy (PUSAD Paramadina). She previously led the design and implementation of the National Violence Monitoring System (NVMS) database at the World Bank during 2008-2013.
Sandeep Nanwani is an activist, anthropologist and physician who works at the United Nations Population Fund in Jakarta, most recently on a project that supported the development of clinics designed for young peoples’ sexual/reproductive health needs. He is chief medical officer and a long term volunteer for Yayasan Kebaya, a shelter for disadvantaged transgender women in the city of Yogyakarta. He holds a Masters of Medical Science in Global Health Delivery from Harvard University.
Sandra Hamid is The Asia Foundation's country representative to Indonesia.
Santoso is Executive Director of Article 33, a research institution that aims to achieve social transformation via the use of Indonesia’s natural resources for the prosperity of the people.
Senza Arsendy is a monitoring and evaluation officer for a donor funded education project in Indonesia. He previously worked as a primary school teacher in a remote area of the country.
Dewi is a sexual and reproductive health (SRH) practitioner with more than 12 years of experience in programs focusing on youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health education and services in Indonesia. She holds an MA in Health Promotion, Education and International Development from the University College London. She is a PhD candidate at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, the University of Melbourne, and is researching the opportunities and challenges of the school-based HPV immunisation program for primary school girls in Indonesia.
Shintia Revina is a researcher at the SMERU Research Institute in Jakarta.
Professor Simon Butt is a senior associate of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society. He is also an ARC Future Fellow and associate director for the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at The University of Sydney.
Siswo Mulyartono is a researcher at PUSAD Paramadina. He has co-authored "Policing Religious Conflicts in Indonesia" and wrote his BA thesis on the anti-Ahmadiyya mobilisation in Cikeusik, Banten, at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta.
Slamet Thohari is a lecturer and researcher with the Center for Disability Services and Studies at Brawijaya University in Malang, and the Indonesian chair of the Australian-Indonesian Disability Research and Advocacy Network (AIDRAN).
Sofie Arjon Schütte is a senior advisor at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway. She previously served as an adviser for the Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan) and an integrated expert at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
Solahudin is a researcher on jihadi movements in Indonesia. He is the author of The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia (translated by Dave McRae), published by NewSouth Books in association with the Lowy Institute for International Policy, with international editions by NUS Press and Cornell University Press.
Dr Stewart Fenwick is the author of ‘Blasphemy, Islam and the State: Pluralism and Liberalism in Indonesia’, published by Routledge in 2017. He is an honorary professor at Australian Catholic University and Senior Associate at the Centre for Indonesian Law Islam and Society at Melbourne Law School.
Syera Anggreini Buntara is a researcher at the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace. She holds a Master of Science in Asian Studies with a certificate in the Comparative Study of Religions in Plural Societies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include interfaith relations, freedom of religion/belief, nationalism and multiculturalism, peace and conflict.
Tamara Soukotta is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Tata Mustasya is Greenpeace Indonesia’s regional climate and energy campaign head and a board member of Trend Asia. He has strong interest on the issue of sustainable development, public policy and political economy. Tata holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Development Studies from the University of Indonesia and a master’s degree in Management of Development from University of Turin, Italy.
Tessa Toumbourou works on environmental governance issues in Indonesia and is an academic tutor at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Master of Environment (Governance, Policy and Communication stream) from the University.
Tiara Marthias is a Senior Technical Adviser at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne. She completed her medical training at Universitas Gadjah Mada and her doctorate degree in public health at the University of Melbourne. Her works focus on health system research, particularly in exploring and addressing geographical and socioeconomic inequity in maternal and child health services.
Tim Lindsey is Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the University of Melbourne.
Tim Mann is the editor of Indonesia at Melbourne
Tito Ambyo is an award-winning Indonesian/Australian journalist and lecturer and a PhD Candidate at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Tommy Firmanda is a counsellor of students with disabilities at the Center for Disability Studies and Services Brawijaya University (PSLD UB) and a researcher at the Australia-Indonesia Disability Research and Advocacy Network (AIDRAN). His areas of interest include development of educational practices and multimedia accessibility; students' adoption of technology, including assessment and implementation of inclusive education for the visually impaired.
Tri Aktariyani is a researcher at the Center for Health Policy and Management in the Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing at Gadjah Mada University.
Tunggal Pawestri is a feminist, women's rights activist and currently serves as executive director of the Humanist and Social Innovation Foundation (Yayasan Hivos)
Ulta Levenia is an Indonesia-based lead researcher of the Galatea Thinktank on Terrorism and Political Violence. Her commentaries have appeared in The Jakarta Post and The Diplomat.
Unaesah Rahmah is a Research Analyst with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, a specialist unit with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She can be reached at isunaesah.r@ntu.edu.sg.
Usman Hamid is executive director of Amnesty International Indonesia. He holds a master's in philosophy from Australian National University. He has previously served as coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) and in 2012 co-founded Public Virtue and the Indonesian Branch of Change.org. Currently he teaches at Indonesia Jentera School of Law (STH Indonesia Jentera).
Valerie Tan is a student at Monash Law School, and recently completed an internship at Lokataru Law & Human Rights Office through the ACICIS Professional Practicum program.
Vedi Hadiz is Director and Professor of Asian Studies at the Asia Institute and an Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor International, University of Melbourne.
Wahyu Susilo is a a labour history researcher and the executive director of Migrant Care, a nongovernmental organisation that advocates for migrant workers' rights.
Wahyudi Akmaliah is a researcher at the Research Center for Society and Culture, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PMB-LIPI).
Ward Berenschot is a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).
Wulan Dirgantoro is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.
Yassar Aulia works for Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) in the Political Corruption Division. His work focuses on democratic regression, oligarchy, and corruption.
Yati Andriyani is a human rights lawyer with the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) and a council member of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD).
Yoes C Kenawas is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University and a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Public Policy at Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta.
Yogi Bratajaya earned his Bachelor of Laws degree from Padjadjaran University, specialising in public international law. He was a former intern at the International Commission of Jurists, and is interested in international human rights and the environment.
Yolanda Pandjaitan is research manager and a researcher at Cakra Wikara Indonesia. She is also a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Indonesia.
Yuji Mizuno is a researcher on Indonesian politics at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) Area Studies Center, Japan. He obtained his MA at Kyoto University Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) in 2020.
Zainal Abidin Bagir is a lecturer in the master's program on religious and cross-cultural studies at Gadjah Mada University (UGM), director of the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, and a senior research fellow at the Paramadina Centre for the Study of Religion and Democracy (PUSAD Paramadina).
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