Dr. Panji Anugrah Permana adalah peneliti di Studi Asia Tenggara di Universiteit Freiburg dan merupakan peneliti tamu di National Development Institute National Taiwan University pada tahun 2007 bekerja dengan Kementerian Pendidikan Taiwan mengenai kebijakan one belt China. Dr. Permana merupakan ilmu kawakan bagi peneliti kebijakan yang pernah bekerja sama dengan Kementerian Desa tentang pemanfaatan Dana Desa di Sulawesi Selatan serta reformasi birokrasi di Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Saat ini sedang melakukan penelitian tentang ‘Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Assessment in Indonesia’ untuk USAID. Dr. Permana telah menerbitkan monografi dalam bahasa Indonesia tentang pemilu.
Dr. Zulfa Sakhiyya is an Assistant Professor at the English Department and Head of the Literacy Research Centre at the Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES). She also serves as Deputy Coordinator of the Science and Education Working Group at the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences.
Her research is grounded in discourse analysis, with a focus on how knowledge is produced, circulated, and represented across different institutional and socio-political contexts. Her work contributes to critical debates on education, policy, and knowledge production, and has been published in leading journals such as Gender and Education, Critical Policy Studies, Globalisation, Societies and Education, International Journal of Multilingualism, and Pedagogy, Culture and Society.
She has also been actively involved in international research collaborations. She was a research fellow at the Center for Innovation, Policy and Governance (2019–2021), where she examined the relationship between research and policy in Indonesia. Prior to that, she was part of the Universities in Knowledge Economy (UNIKE) project (2017–2018), funded by the Marie Curie programme of the European Commission.
Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad, Ph.D., is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, and serves as Executive Secretary at the university’s ASEAN Study Center. He earned his doctorate from Ritsumeikan University in Japan and has research interests in global, regional, and local governance dynamics, as well as Indonesian foreign policy. Shofwan has published numerous scholarly works, including books and articles on ASEAN and international political economy, and has won a number of awards, including ASEAN Canada Junior Fellow and St.Gallen Wings of Excellence Award winner. With significant experience and contributions in his field, he continues to play an active role in the development of international relations studies in Indonesia.
Dr. Diana Teresa Pakasi, S.Sos., M.Si. is a Gender Specialist and a leading academic in Indonesia with more than 15 years of experience in the field of gender and sexuality. She serves as Chair of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Indonesia, where she also teaches at the Department of Sociology.
Dr. Imam Ardhianto adalah staf pengajar di Departemen Antropologi FISIP Universitas Indonesia. Ia menyelesaikan studinya di tingkat master di Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS) Paris dan lanjut menyelesaikan studi doktoralnya di Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Albert Ludwig Universitat de Freiburg dengan beasiswa dari Lisa Maskell PhD Fellowship, Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Dr. Imam Ardhianto menyelesaikan jenjang studinya dengan disertasi mengenai artikulasi, kontradiksi, dan negosiasi antara Adat dan Gereja dalam dalam berbagai lintasan sejarah orang Kenyah di pusat Borneo dan kaitannya dengan visi egalitarian Gereja Injili dengan struktur hirarkis adat. Disertasi tersebut telah diterbitkan oleh Palgrave Macmillan dalam series of Contestation in Southeast Asia. Fokus disertasi tersebut membawanya pada minat riset spesifik mengenai transformasi sosial-kultural dan indigenitas, ekspresi keagamaan, kekuasaan, hirarki, pertalian sosial, dan kekerabatan. Beberapa publikasi terkait dengan minat tersebut telah dipublikasikan di Jurnal Archipel, Antropologi Indonesia, dan The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. Saat ini Dr. Imam Ardhianto melanjutkan riset lanjutan melalui skema hibah riset PRIME-ASIA LPDP untuk mendalami lebih lanjut pertalian dan hubungan timbal balik antara masyarakat dan lingkungan di Borneo, termasuk di dalamnya konteks transformasi pandemi Covid-19, transformasi lanskap dan ancaman terhadap kawasan hutan, Indigenitas, dan bencana-bencana di Borneo.