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.
Dr. Annisa R. Beta is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne. Her research is broadly concerned with youth, new media, and political subjectivity in Southeast Asia. Before moving to Melbourne, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, from 2018 to 2019. She received her Ph.D. from National University of Singapore in 2018. While finishing her doctoral degree, she was also a Visiting Student Researcher at the University of California Berkeley in 2016.
Associate Professor of sociology at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. He also holds the position of Director of the Youth Studies Centre (YouSure). His research interests include youth studies, sociology of culture and sociology of knowledge. He has published his work in Journal of Youth Studies, Sociological Research Online, Asian Music, Crime Media Culture, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies and Perfect Beat: The Asia-Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture.
Whisnu holds a Ph.D in Information and Media from Michigan State University. His research interests is an intersection between information studies and communication science. Mainly in interrogating social dynamics of the internet, such as digital divides, interorganizational networks, internet usage, and persuasion in digital milieu.
Ariane Utomo is a social demographer, and Senior Lecturer in Demography and Population Geography at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne. Her primary research broadly examines the intersecting themes around gender, education, and the labour force; ageing and migration; and marriage, family change, and transition to adulthood in Indonesia.