Hari Nugroho is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Universitas Indonesia, and PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University. His primary research areas include labour, social movements, social exclusion and inequality, particularly in Indonesia. His articles have been published in Democratization, Labour and Management in Development, Global Dialogue, Inside Indonesia, etc. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Masyarakat Jurnal Sosiologi, Jurnal Studi Pemuda, and Global Dialogue (International Sociological Association).