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Dr. Inaya Rakhmani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, and served as Director of the Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia from 2021 to 2025, now continuing as an advisor to the centre.

She earned her Ph.D. in Media Studies and Asian Studies from the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia, in 2013, and holds an MA in Media Studies from Universiteit van Amsterdam. Dr. Rakhmani employs cultural political economy to study media and communications, knowledge production, and information systems in relation to broader capitalist transformations and democratic developments. Her research examines the role of social and mass media in hindering democratic progress, with comparative studies across Indonesia, India, Egypt, and Turkey. She is the author of Mainstreaming Islam in Indonesia: Television, Identity, and the Middle Class (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is also an honorary member of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (ALMI) and has published extensively in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, and TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia.

Dr. Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih is a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, and since 2025 has served as Co-Director of Academic Praxis at the Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia.

Diatyka earned her Ph.D. from the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, where her doctoral research investigated the expansion of precarious work arrangements tied to the gig economy and its effects on workers’ subjective experience, identity formation, and organizing propensity in Indonesia. Her work has been published in leading academic journals and public outlets, including the Journal of Contemporary Asia, where her article “Jakarta’s Precarious Workers: Are They a New Dangerous Class?” appeared in 2017, as well as The Jakarta Post, The Conversation, and Indonesia at Melbourne. Her scholarship bridges academic research and public engagement, contributing to ongoing debates about labor rights, economic inequality, and the social consequences of neoliberal restructuring in Southeast Asia.

Dr. Diahhadi Setyonaluri, or Ruri, is a faculty member at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia. She earned her Ph.D. in Demographic and Social Research from The Australian National University in 2013, with a dissertation examining the determinants of women’s employment exit and return in Indonesia. Dr. Setyonaluri’s research employs an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the drivers of women’s economic participation and welfare in Indonesia, with particular focus on marriage and childbearing, unpaid care work, gender norms, workplace policies, social protection, and violence against women. She has extensive experience as a policy consultant for international organizations and government agencies, including serving as Gender and Social Inclusion Economist for the World Bank’s Prospera program (2019-2021).

Since 2025, Dr. Setyonaluri has joined the Asia Research Centre Universitas Indonesia as Co-Director of Organisational Life, bringing her expertise in gender economics and labour market analysis to strengthen research and policy engagement in the region.