Imam Ardhianto

Dr. Imam Ardhianto is a lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, FISIP, University of Indonesia. He completed his master's studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS) Paris and continued his doctoral studies at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Albert Ludwig Universitat de Freiburg with a scholarship from the Lisa Maskell PhD Fellowship, Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Dr. Imam Ardhianto completed his studies with a dissertation on the articulations, contradictions, and negotiations between Adat and the Church in the various historical trajectories of the Kenyah in central Borneo and its relation to the egalitarian vision of the Evangelical Church and the hierarchical structure of adat. The dissertation has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in the series of Contestation in Southeast Asia. The focus of the dissertation led him to specific research interests on socio-cultural transformation and identity, religious expression, power, hierarchy, social ties, and kinship. Several publications related to this interest have been published in the Archipel Journal, Antropologi Indonesia, and The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. Currently Dr. Imam Ardhianto continued further research through the LPDP PRIME-ASIA research grant scheme to further explore the interrelationships between communities and the environment in Borneo, including the context of the Covid-19 pandemic transformation, landscape transformation and threats to forest areas, Indigenity and disasters in Borneo.