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Prof. Dr. Amalinda Savirani is a scholar in political science whose work focuses on social movements, labour, and political economy in Indonesia. She is currently Head of the Doctoral (S3) Program in Political Science at the Department of Politics and Government, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
She completed her PhD from the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AiSSR), Universiteit van Amsterdam, where her dissertation examined the intersections of business and politics in provincial Indonesia, focusing on the batik and construction sectors in Pekalongan, Central Java.
Her research explores the dynamics of urban social movements, labour politics, and state–society relations through a political economy lens. Her scholarly publications include work in leading journals such as Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, including the article “Adversarial Linkage: Urban Poor Politics and Electoral Politics in Indonesia” (with Edward Aspinall). She has also co-edited the book Reclaiming the State: Overcoming Problems of Democracy in Indonesia with Olle Törnquist
Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia, Ph.D., is an academic and researcher focusing on international relations, particularly on China and Indonesian foreign policy. Currently, he is the Head of the International Relations Study Program at the University of Indonesia.
Robertus Robet (born in Lampung, May 16, 1971) is a sociologist and human rights activist in Indonesia. Robet is currently a permanent lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FIS) of the State University of Jakarta, a Visiting Researcher at Melbourne University and has published various books and articles.[1] Robet is also the founder of several civil society organizations such as the Democracy Education Association (P2D) Archived 2020-10-01 at the Wayback Machine, Imparsial, and others. Robet was Vice Chairman of the Board of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (1996-2003), worked for the Joint Fact-Finding Team for the May 1998 Riots (1999), worked for the Fact-Finding Team for Post-Poll Violence in East Timor (2000), and is a member of the Founding Board of Imparsial and founder of Amnesty International Indonesia.
Prof. Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria and Director of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa (CASA). He is widely recognised for his scholarship on social movements, political economy, democracy, and development in the Global South, grounded in a Gramscian and historical-materialist approach.
His work examines the dynamics of power, resistance, and state–society relations, with a particular focus on how subaltern groups engage with and contest processes of capitalist development. His research has contributed significantly to critical debates on neoliberal restructuring, authoritarianism, and democratic transformation across diverse Global South contexts.
Prof. Nilsen is the author and co-author of several influential books, including Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage (with Peter Nielsen), Globalizing India: Capitalism, Politics, and Resistance (Routledge, 2010), We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto Press, 2014), and Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His most recent book, Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2025), offers a critical re-examination of authoritarianism, neoliberal restructuring, elite political projects, and forms of resistance.