Senior Research Fellow

Dr. Panji Anugrah Permana is an associate researcher in Southeast Asian Studies at Universiteit Freiburg and was a visiting research fellow in National Development Institute National Taiwan University in 2007 working with the Taiwanese Ministry of Education regarding China’s one belt policy. Dr. Permana is a seasoned knowledge to policy researcher having worked with the Ministry of Villages regarding the utilisation of Village Funds in South Sulawesi as well as on bureaucratic reform for the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government. He is currently doing research on ‘Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Assessment in Indonesia’ for USAID. Dr. Permana’s has published a monograph in Indonesian on the elections.

Dr. Zulfa Sakhiyya is Assistant Professor at the English Department as well as Head of the Literacy Research Centre of the Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Semarang (UNNES). Zulfa is a Senior Research Fellow at Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia, and Deputy Coordinator of the Science and Education working group for the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (ALMI). Zulfa is a discourse analyst focusing on how knowledge is produced and represented, and published in the area. Her work has been published in journals such as Gender and Education; Critical Policy Studies; Globalization, Societies and Education, International Journal of Multilingualism; and Pedagogy, Culture and Society. She was a research fellow at the Center for Innovation, Policy and Governance (2019-2021) to assess research policy-nexus in Indonesia, as well as a research fellow (2017-2018) at the Universities in Knowledge Economy (UNIKE) project funded by Marie Curie, 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 is a lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, FISIP, University of Indonesia. He completed his master’s studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS) Paris and continued his doctoral studies at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Albert Ludwig Universitat de Freiburg with a scholarship from the Lisa Maskell PhD Fellowship, Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Dr. Imam Ardhianto completed his studies with a dissertation on the articulations, contradictions, and negotiations between Adat and the Church in the various historical trajectories of the Kenyah in central Borneo and its relation to the egalitarian vision of the Evangelical Church and the hierarchical structure of adat. The dissertation has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in the series of Contestation in Southeast Asia. The focus of the dissertation led him to specific research interests on socio-cultural transformation and identity, religious expression, power, hierarchy, social ties, and kinship. Several publications related to this interest have been published in the Archipel Journal, Antropologi Indonesia, and The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. Currently Dr. Imam Ardhianto continued further research through the LPDP PRIME-ASIA research grant scheme to further explore the interrelationships between communities and the environment in Borneo, including the context of the Covid-19 pandemic transformation, landscape transformation and threats to forest areas, Indigenity and disasters in Borneo.