Inaya Rakhmani

Dr. Inaya Rakhmani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, and served as Director of the Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia from 2021 to 2025, now continuing as an advisor to the centre.

She earned her Ph.D. in Media Studies and Asian Studies from the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia, in 2013, and holds an MA in Media Studies from Universiteit van Amsterdam. Dr. Rakhmani employs cultural political economy to study media and communications, knowledge production, and information systems in relation to broader capitalist transformations and democratic developments. Her research examines the role of social and mass media in hindering democratic progress, with comparative studies across Indonesia, India, Egypt, and Turkey. She is the author of Mainstreaming Islam in Indonesia: Television, Identity, and the Middle Class (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is also an honorary member of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (ALMI) and has published extensively in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, and TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia.