Research Dissemination / Conference

  • Invited speaker. “Flood Hazard in Coastal Areas” in World Resources Institute (WRI) seminar, 8 April 2026.
  • Invited speaker. “The Politics of Dry Feet” in Humanitarian Governance Webinar Series, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS-The Hague), 4 February 2026.
  • Keynote speaker. “Beyond Climate Scapegoating: Towards the Politics of Flood Governance” in “True Flood: Sumatra – A Discussion Beyond the Scapegoating of Climate Change,” PPI Leiden and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asia and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), 23 January 2026.
  • Presenter. “The Collusion Trap: Political Economy of Flood Risk Management in Indonesia” at the AIFIS–Michigan State University Conference on Indonesian Studies, 17–21 June 2025.
  • Presenter. “Legalized Grievances: Unpacking Green Grabbing and Democratic Regression in Indonesia ́s Geothermal Frontier.” International Workshop on The EU Green Deal and ASEAN: Controversies, Ambiguities, and Opportunities. Indonesia National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Wageningen University and Research, Monash University, 3 – 4 December 2024
  • Presenter. “Reinterpreting Disaster Risk Reduction: Nickel Mining and the Marginalization of Communities in Indonesia ́s Resource Frontiers.” Conference on the Precarity and Sustainability: Society and Ecology in Indonesia. ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (Singapore), 21 – 22 August 2024
  • Conveners, together with Prof. Ward Berenschot. ̈Politics-Business Collusion in Southeast Asia. EUROSEAS 2024 at Universiteit van Amsterdam.
  • Invited speaker, “Political Economy of Floods Management in Indonesian Cities”, at Water Research Group – Leeds University (UK), 19 April 2023
  • Invited Lecture, “Drainage Politics, Rights, and Environmental Justice” in the Asia Pacific Master of Human Rights and Democratisation, University of Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) & Mahidol University (Thailand), March 2023
  • Presenter, “Drainage politics: The flood management in Indonesian cities”. The best conference paper at The Local Democracy Academy 2022. Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy – Uppsala University, June 2022.
  • Speaker, Talking Indonesia: the Kanjuruhan football disaster. Indonesia at Melbourne – Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS), The University of Melbourne, October 2022.
  • Presenter, “The Blended Fieldwork” in 2022 Winner (Week of Indonesia – Netherlands Education and Research) Conference, Panel “Exploring the dilemmas and avenues of digital interaction and distance in research methodology and practice”.      
  • Presenter “The Irony of Success: Insight from the Field” in Revolt! Degrowth! Decolonize! Global Climate Agendas, Local Struggles Public Event (KITLV) – July 2022.
  • Invited Lecture “Politics of Disaster Prevention and Ecological Management” in the 2022 Summer Course Department of Sociology, Universitas Gadjah Mada – Indonesia.
  • Presenter, “Flooding and Climate Politics in Indonesia”, Global Disruptions and Local Democracy for a Post-Covid World Conference, Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, December 2020
  • “Clientelism and Intra-religious tension in Post-Conflict Society: The Religious Authority Contestation in Aceh”. Paper presentation in EuroSEAS Conference at Humboldt – Universitat zu Berlin, September 2019.
  • “Indonesia Decentralization: Between Global Norms and Local Context”. Paper Presentation in The Forum On Contemporary China and World at Beijing. Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies, May 2017.
  • “Connecting The Dots: Populism, Inequality and Intolerance in Sub-National Indonesia, Evidences from South Sulawesi and Banten”. Paper presentation in Asia Pacific Peace Research Association Conference (APPRA) at Jakarta, May 2019.
  • “Local-Global Nexus on Recent Development for Mutual Benefit: an Indonesian Perspective”. Paper presentation in the BRICS Seminar on Governance at Xiamen. Chinese Academy of Governance, August 2017.