Amalinda Savirani

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