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Advisor and Cluster Leader of Producing Knowledge on Asia
She served as Director of ARC UI and Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Indonesia. Her research is grounded in cultural political economy, focusing on media and communications, knowledge production, and information systems in relation to broader capitalist transformations and democratic developments. Her work also examines the role of social and mass media in shaping—and at times constraining—democratic processes, with comparative research spanning Indonesia, India, Egypt, and Turkey.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
- Master of Arts, Media Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Bachelor of Social Science, Communication Science, University of Indonesia
To learn more about her work, visit her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inaya-rakhmani-a1268729b/
Suraya Afiff earned her doctorate in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an associate professor in the anthropology department and the chair of the Indonesian Anthropological Association (AAI) for the years 2021-2026. She investigates human-environment interactions using a political ecology approach. Her research interests include the problem of unequal access to and control over land and natural resources, right-based development, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), and Indonesian agrarian and environmental movements. Migration-Plantation nexus, as well as agrarian reform and social forestry, agrarian conflict resolution, peat forest management and forest fires, and the problem of displacement in development projects, are among her current research topics.
Co-Director of Academic Praxis and Cluster Leader of Democracy (from below) in Asia
She is Co-Director of Academic Praxis and Cluster Leader at ARC UI. She also serves as lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Indonesia. She has years of experience researching and writing about groups of people who experience socio, political and economic marginalisation. Her doctoral thesis is on the expansion of precarious work tied to the gig economy and its effects on workers’ identity formation and organising propensity in Indonesia. Since then, she has been involved in researches that trace the link between increasing precarity and political identity among labourers across different sectors. She has also recently engaged in research that links climate change with livelihood and labour issues.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, The Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
- Master of Arts, Development Studies, Specialization Children and Youth Studies, The International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University
- Bachelor of Social Sciences, Sociology, University of Indonesia
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Dr. Evi Eliyanah is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the Department of English, Universitas Negeri Malang. She is also a member of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences.
Her research focuses on gender equality, social inclusion, and socio-cultural transformations in Indonesia. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how gender is shaped across education, media, and broader social structures. Her current work includes Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) in film education, higher education, and research ecosystems, as well as studies on marriage patterns, social change, and representations of gender in Indonesian popular culture.
Through her work, she contributes to both academic scholarship and policy-relevant discussions, particularly in advancing inclusive approaches within education and knowledge production in Indonesia.
Endah Triastuti receives her PhD degree from University of Wollongong, NSW Australia. She is now a lecturer at Department of Communications at Universitas Indonesia since 2009. Her research interests are media anthropology, digital ethnography, as well as media and minority.