Ongoing

Since 2020, I am working as PhD researcher within the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) research agenda on the governance of climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.

I am focusing on the political economy of flood management in Indonesian cities. It looks at the character of local democracy and politics to explain the different outcomes of flood management as a case of the impact of climate change and local governance. We know little about the pattern of political process that shapes flood management’s success and failure. Therefore, this research focuses on how, to what extent, and under what conditions local political character contributes to flooding management in Indonesian cities. By comparing four cities – two with relatively successful interventions and two with apparently less successful ones – this project explains the variation in flood management outcomes in four Indonesian cities in coastal and inland watershed regions.

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Experiences

• Principal Investigator, “Who Owns the River? Competing for the Water Access in Contemporary Java, Indonesia” in River Cities as Method – International Institute for Asian Studies, Universiteit Leiden.
• Principal Investigator. “Managing Elections in the wake of Natural Hazards: Indonesia 2020 Regional Elections, (International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA-Sweden), 2022)”.
• Principal Investigator. “State Capacity and Natural Resources Management, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – The Asia Foundation, 2019)”
• Team Member. “Education, Democracy and the Legacy of Conflict: Prospects and Challenges of History and Civic Education in Indonesia, (KU Leuven & Universitat Heidelberg, 2018-2019)“
• Team Member. “State and religious authority expansion, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – National Development Planning Agency, 2018 – 2019)“
• Team Member. “Local-Global Nexus on Knowledge Production of Indonesia Decentralization, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) -National Development Planning Agency, 2017-2019)“
• Principal Investigator. “Regional Government Capacity on Natural Resource Management in Indonesia: Sub-national Comparative Analysis, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), 2017-2018)“
• Team Member. “Intolerance and Radicalism in Indonesia Nine Provinces: A Strategic Assessment, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – National Development Planning Agency, 2018)“
• Team Member. “Vote Buying in Indonesia Local Elections, (Department of Politics and Government UGM – Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs The Australian National University, 2017)“
• Team Member. “Natural Resources Management in Indonesia: Prediction and Scenario Building, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – Indonesia State Intelligence Agency, 2017)“
• Team Member. “Countering Radicalism and Religious Intolerance in Indonesia: Strategic Assessment Report, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – Research and Higher Education Ministry, 2017)“
• Team Member. “Conflict of Water Access in Banten and Bali: Strategy and Negotiation, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), 2016)“
• Politicization Fear Of Crime in Indonesia Outer Island: Case of Central Lombok District, (The Australian National University 2015, Master Thesis under the supervision of Prof. Robert Cribb)
• Principal Investigator. “Elites and Violence Groups in West Nusa Tenggara Province: Study of Political Violence in Indonesia Outer Island, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), 2013)“
• Team Member. “Conflict Prevention Framework, (UNDP- National Development Planning Agency – Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), 2011 – 2012)“
• Team Member. “Local Politics in West Nusa Tenggara Province: Local Elite Study in Indonesia Outer Island (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), 2010-2012)“
• Research Assistant. “Engaging the Faith: Pluralism, Civil Society, and Religious Identity in Indonesia With Ward Berenschot (Universiteit Van Amsterdam – CMC Netherland (2009).“
• Research Assistant. “Middle Class and Welfare State in Indonesia”, with M. Kremer. Scientific Council for Government Policy, The Netherland (2010- 2011).“