Dr. Panji Anugrah Permana is an associate researcher in Southeast Asian Studies at Universiteit Freiburg and was a visiting research fellow in National Development Institute National Taiwan University in 2007 working with the Taiwanese Ministry of Education regarding China’s one belt policy. Dr. Permana is a seasoned knowledge to policy researcher having worked with the Ministry of Villages regarding the utilisation of Village Funds in South Sulawesi as well as on bureaucratic reform for the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government. He is currently doing research on ‘Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Assessment in Indonesia’ for USAID. Dr. Permana’s has published a monograph in Indonesian on the elections.