Dewan Pengawas

Vedi Hadiz is Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Asia Institute and an Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor International, University of Melbourne, where he is also a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor. He was previously Professor of Asian Societies and Politics at Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre and Director of its Indonesia Research Programme. An Indonesian national, he was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in 2010-2014. Professor Hadiz received his PhD at Murdoch University in 1996 where he was Research Fellow until he went to the National University of Singapore in 2000. At NUS, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology until returning to Murdoch in 2010. His research interests revolve around political sociology and political economy issues, especially those related to the contradictions of development in Indonesia and Southeast Asia more broadly, and more recently, in the Middle East.

Semiarto Aji Purwanto is a Professor of Anthropology, in the Universitas Indonesia. He has been the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia since 2021.

His teachings include ethnicity, dynamics of rural and urban society, urban culture, business anthropology, and research methodology. He teaches in both Under Graduate and Graduate Programs at the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Indonesia and the Graduate School of the Police Science Higher Education (Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kepolisian).

Dr. Arie Setiabudi Soesilo, M.Sc., is a leading sociologist and academic in Indonesia who plays an important role in the development of social science. He is a permanent lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), University of Indonesia (UI). In addition, Dr. Arie is also known as the former Dean of FISIP UI for two periods, namely 2013-2017 and 2017-2021.

Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem is a professor of Political Science in the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of the Philippines Diliman and executive director of the Center for Integrative and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines. She is editor of Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics: Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines and co-editor of Marxism in the Philippines: Continuing Engagements.

Dr. Rosalia (Lia) Sciortino Sumaryono, a cultural anthropologist and development sociologist by training, earned her master and doctorate at the Vrije Universities, Amsterdam with honors. Currently, she is Associate Professor at the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, Visiting Professor at the Master and PhD n International Development Studies (MAIDS/GRID), Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and Senior Social Development and Health Advisor to Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction Program (MAMPU), a joint initiative of the Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) implemented by Cowater in Indonesia.