Suraya Afiff

Suraya Afiff earned her doctorate in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an associate professor in the anthropology department and the chair of the Indonesian Anthropological Association (AAI) for the years 2021-2026. She investigates human-environment interactions using a political ecology approach. Her research interests include the problem of unequal access to and control over land and natural resources, right-based development, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), and Indonesian agrarian and environmental movements. Migration-Plantation nexus, as well as agrarian reform and social forestry, agrarian conflict resolution, peat forest management and forest fires, and the problem of displacement in development projects, are among her current research topics.