LEADERSHIP
- Coordinating SDG 4 Seminar, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyväskylä 2020
- Course coordinator for UniPID, developing a MOOC course for development studies 2020-2022
- team member for Policy Brief writer for G20 Think Tank
- Contacts for Indonesian research and Indonesian politics (legislative/parliamentary study) in Finland. I am actively writing about Indonesia and its politics, and sharing information about foreigners (Indonesian) living in Finland or Europe.
- Coordinator for lecture in Indonesian politics at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 2010-2013
- Editor Team of books of Minutes at the Process of Amending 1945 Constitution with MPR members and the Secretariat. April 2008.
- Coordinating (international) consultants and capacity building project for local election in Aceh, resulted in seminars and publications, 2007
- Team Leader on Publication of DPRD Strengthening Programs: Handbook of Legal Drafting for DPRD Members; Module of Legal Drafting for Facilitators; and Constituency Relations for DPRD members. Nov 2007.
- Coordinator of Regional Legislative Specialists, LGSP-USAID, support project for local government: Legislative capacity building process for local government, national workshop for local governance. April 2006-2007.
- Coordinator of translators in feasibility seminars of the Fourth Amendment of 1945 Constitution, funded by the International IDEA and UNDP. May 2002.
AFFILIATIONS
- University of Lapland, Faculty of Law www.ulapland.fi/EN/Units/Faculty-of-Law/Research-in-Law/LOST-research-group
- University of Turku, School of Economic sites.utu.fi/palmoil/members/
- University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept of History and Ethnology www.jyu.fi/en/projects/legitimacy-of-the-united-nations-and-transnational-challenges-1990-2019#toc--project-description- and Dept. of Social Sciences and Philosophy (Political Science) https://www.jyu.fi/ytk/laitokset/yfi/en/research/clusters/dissensus/environment/ratih
- Nordic Southeast Asia Network (N-SEA) http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/n-sea/people/
- Nordic Indonesian Studies Network (NIAS) http://norindo.org/
- Doctoral School of Contemporary Asian Studies 2010-2013 http://www.utu.fi/en/units/soc/units/ceas/research/DAS/Pages/Students.aspx
- Finnish Indonesia Research Network (FIRN)
- Hansard/Chevening Scholars-Alumni 2009
- University of Queensland, School of Political Science and International Studies, Queensland, Australia
- Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
CONFERENCE, PRESENTATION AND RESEARCH VISIT
Conferences and presentations (from recent one)
- Presenting at Finnish Political Science Association, 14-16 April 2025, University of Lapland on Green transition “war” between great powers and middle-income countries
- Presenting at IPSA 75th conference, 11-13 September 2024, Lisbon, Portugal on "Enhancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) via Parliamentary Diplomacy: Findings from Three Southeast Asian Countries" (Panel: "What International Impact for Parliamentary Actors? Finding from Empirical Studies").
- Chairing a panel and presenting paper at the PAN-European Conference on International Relations, EISA-European International Studies Association, PEC-EISA 2024, 27-31 August 2024, Lille, France. Chairing a panel on "Multilateralism beyond the liberal frame" and presenting on "Multilateralism in Illiberal Democracy: ASEAN Way in Governing Climate Crisis"
- Presenting a paper in ICAS13-conference- International Convention of Asian Scholar, 28 July - 1 August 2024, Surabaya, Indonesia, on "The Palm Oil debates and policy dialogues in Indonesia"
- Presenting a paper at the ACUNS conference, 20-22 June 2024, Tokyo, Japan on "Participation in Tackling Climate Crisis: A Portrayal of multilateralism and global governance in ASEAN and Indonesia"
- Organizing a panel at the Finnish Political Science Association, University of Turku, 15-17 May 2024: "Theory and Practice of Multilateralism" (with Dr. Anna Kronlund), and presenting a paper on "Challenges of ASEAN Multilateralism in governing climate crisis".
- Presenting a paper in the ACUNS 2023 Annual Meeting (online) 21-22 June 2023, on Multilateralism from Southeast Asia
- Presenting a paper in the Finnish Political Science Association Jyväskylä 11-12 May 2021, "Multilateralism from Southeast Asia: Climate Crisis Perspective" based on the paper here
- organising/chairing a panel "Democracy in Middle-Income Countries" in the Finnish Political Science Association, Åbo Akademi, 10-12 May 2021, and presenting a paper "The Role of Parliament in Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Southeast Asia in International Parliamentary Forums". (the paper is published), Workshops – Statsvetardagarna 2021 (abo.fi)
- Webinar for Expert Event for the sub-commitee for Development Cooperation of the student of the University of Jyväskylä, 29 April 2021, "The Impact of Global Education Policy in Indonesia".
- Presenting a paper in an online conference, “Transformation of Education in the Pandemic” 30 November 2020 organized by the International University of Information Technology, Kazakhstan “Transformation of Education in the Pandemic” (iitu.edu.kz)
- Organizing an international online seminar SDG 4 2020 for the University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Education and Psychology, 22-23 October 2020. The seminar is organised in Howspace www.jyu.fi/edupsy/en/events/sdg4seminar
- Organising a panel "Parliamentary Affairs" in the Finnish Political Science Association Tampere, 12-13 March 2020, and presenting a paper "Assessing Policy Impact of Parliament in Sustainable Development Goals: Indonesia and World Parliamentary Forum on Sustainable Development 2017-2019".
- Conference participation 27-28 July 2019: “Multi-parliamentary governance and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)” in United Kingdom, Wroxton Workshop for Parliamentarians and Scholars, http://wroxtonworkshop.org/
- Conference presentation 2-4 July 2019:“Parliaments and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Is Public Policy through Multi-Parliamentary Cooperation possible? in the 15eme Congres de l'AFSP/Association Francaise de Scinece Politiques/ 8eme CoSPoF, Bordeaux, France
- Conference presentation 12-13 February 2019 "Parliamentary Ethnography: Culture and politics entangled in the plenary forums" in the Ethnotwist conference, University of Jyväskylä
- Conference presentation 18-19 January 2019, “Europe and (Southeast) Asia Relations through Parliaments: culture and politics entangled” (Panel of Europe's foreign relations) in KATSE-FISA 6th annual conference
- Conference presentation 4-5 September 2018,"Social Science Research on Southeast Asia" in International Symposium on Social Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Conference presentation 9-10.3.2017: "Parliamentary Politics and Regional Challenges in ASEAN" in Conference of Finnish Political Science Association, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Conference presentation 16-17.2.2017: "Europe and Southeast Asia: power, authority and SDG" in Finnish Society for Development Research, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Conference presentation, 19-20.3.2015: "Parliamentary Reforms through parliamentary procedure: a lesson-learnt from the Indonesian parliament, in Conference of Finnish Political Science Association, Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland.
- Conference presentation, 6-7.3.2014: “Parliament versus Representation in Indonesian Regional Parliament” in Conference of Finnish Political Science Association, Tampere, Finland.
- Public lecture 29.5.2013: “Political Role of the local parliaments in Indonesia in post-Suharto’s democratization (1999-2009)”, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
- Conference presentation 28.2.2013: “The local parliament in parliamentary debate 2009”, DAS Conference, Helsinki, Finland.
- Conference presentation 23.9.2011: “Local Parliament in Indonesia, a minority subject?”, NISN Third Annual Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Conference presentation 1.9.2011: “Local Parliament in Indonesia- DPRD in the 2004 Parliamentary Debate”, DAS Conference, Tampere, Finland.
- Conference presentation 13.6.2011: “Political Language in the Indonesian Parliament”, Concepta Seminar 'Re-thinking Parliament', Jyväskylä, Finland. http://www.concepta-net.org/research_training_seminar_rethinking_parliaments
- Conference presentation 12.2.2011: “Language and Dissent in Indonesian Parliament”, DAS Conference, Oulu, Finland.
- Conference presentation 21.1.2011: “Language and Dissent in Indonesian Parliament” in Conference of Finnish Political Science Association, Jyväskylä, Finland.
- KITLV Lunch Seminar presentation 15.12.2010: “Political Condition of Local Parliamentary in Indonesia”, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Conference presentation 21.10.2010: “The Dutch Colonial Policy in Indonesia” in Finnish Historical Research Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Conference presentation 14.10.2010: “Legacy of (Colonial) Dutch Government in Indonesian”, POLITU seminar on Parliament Democracy, Parliament and Government in Europe, Brussels, Belgium.
- Conference presentation 22.9.2010: “Legacy of (Colonial) Dutch Government in Indonesian Parliament Crossing The Divide between internal and external politics”, Mariehamn, Åland, Finland.
- GSAS Seminar 24.8.2010: “Indonesia’s Local Parliament/ DPRD the Parliamentary Debate of 1999”, Turku, Finland.
- Conference presentation 10.3.2010: “Debate on Local Parliament in Indonesia 1999”, Finnish Political Science Association, Helsinki, Finland.
- Conference presentation 18.1.2010: “Research Proposal of Political Condition for Indonesian Local Parliament”, DAS Seminar, Helsinki, Finland.
*GSAS = Graduate School of Asian Studies, changed in 2011 into DAS = Doctoral Graduate School of Contemporary Asian Studies
Research visits
2025 Dean's Strategic Funding, University of Jyväskylä, ethnographic trips to parliaments in Southeast Asia
Post-doc Fellowship (funded by Kone Foundation and University of Jyväskylä travel grant)
1. Freiburg, Germany, host by Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute/University of Freiburg, 5 June - 23 July 2017 (including seminar)
Doctoral research visits (all funded by Mobility Grants, University of Jyväskylä)
1. Leiden, Netherlands, host by KITLV, 24 Nov 2010 - 5 Jan 2011 (including seminar)
2. Jakarta, Indonesia, host by KITLV, 16 June - 18 August 2011 (including seminars)
3. Yogyakarta, Indonesia, host by Gadjah Mada University, 17 May - 16 Aug 2013 (including lecture and seminar)
- Coordinating SDG 4 Seminar, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyväskylä 2020
- Course coordinator for UniPID, developing a MOOC course for development studies 2020-2022
- team member for Policy Brief writer for G20 Think Tank
- Contacts for Indonesian research and Indonesian politics (legislative/parliamentary study) in Finland. I am actively writing about Indonesia and its politics, and sharing information about foreigners (Indonesian) living in Finland or Europe.
- Coordinator for lecture in Indonesian politics at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 2010-2013
- Editor Team of books of Minutes at the Process of Amending 1945 Constitution with MPR members and the Secretariat. April 2008.
- Coordinating (international) consultants and capacity building project for local election in Aceh, resulted in seminars and publications, 2007
- Team Leader on Publication of DPRD Strengthening Programs: Handbook of Legal Drafting for DPRD Members; Module of Legal Drafting for Facilitators; and Constituency Relations for DPRD members. Nov 2007.
- Coordinator of Regional Legislative Specialists, LGSP-USAID, support project for local government: Legislative capacity building process for local government, national workshop for local governance. April 2006-2007.
- Coordinator of translators in feasibility seminars of the Fourth Amendment of 1945 Constitution, funded by the International IDEA and UNDP. May 2002.
AFFILIATIONS
- University of Lapland, Faculty of Law www.ulapland.fi/EN/Units/Faculty-of-Law/Research-in-Law/LOST-research-group
- University of Turku, School of Economic sites.utu.fi/palmoil/members/
- University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept of History and Ethnology www.jyu.fi/en/projects/legitimacy-of-the-united-nations-and-transnational-challenges-1990-2019#toc--project-description- and Dept. of Social Sciences and Philosophy (Political Science) https://www.jyu.fi/ytk/laitokset/yfi/en/research/clusters/dissensus/environment/ratih
- Nordic Southeast Asia Network (N-SEA) http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/n-sea/people/
- Nordic Indonesian Studies Network (NIAS) http://norindo.org/
- Doctoral School of Contemporary Asian Studies 2010-2013 http://www.utu.fi/en/units/soc/units/ceas/research/DAS/Pages/Students.aspx
- Finnish Indonesia Research Network (FIRN)
- Hansard/Chevening Scholars-Alumni 2009
- University of Queensland, School of Political Science and International Studies, Queensland, Australia
- Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
CONFERENCE, PRESENTATION AND RESEARCH VISIT
Conferences and presentations (from recent one)
- Presenting at Finnish Political Science Association, 14-16 April 2025, University of Lapland on Green transition “war” between great powers and middle-income countries
- Presenting at IPSA 75th conference, 11-13 September 2024, Lisbon, Portugal on "Enhancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) via Parliamentary Diplomacy: Findings from Three Southeast Asian Countries" (Panel: "What International Impact for Parliamentary Actors? Finding from Empirical Studies").
- Chairing a panel and presenting paper at the PAN-European Conference on International Relations, EISA-European International Studies Association, PEC-EISA 2024, 27-31 August 2024, Lille, France. Chairing a panel on "Multilateralism beyond the liberal frame" and presenting on "Multilateralism in Illiberal Democracy: ASEAN Way in Governing Climate Crisis"
- Presenting a paper in ICAS13-conference- International Convention of Asian Scholar, 28 July - 1 August 2024, Surabaya, Indonesia, on "The Palm Oil debates and policy dialogues in Indonesia"
- Presenting a paper at the ACUNS conference, 20-22 June 2024, Tokyo, Japan on "Participation in Tackling Climate Crisis: A Portrayal of multilateralism and global governance in ASEAN and Indonesia"
- Organizing a panel at the Finnish Political Science Association, University of Turku, 15-17 May 2024: "Theory and Practice of Multilateralism" (with Dr. Anna Kronlund), and presenting a paper on "Challenges of ASEAN Multilateralism in governing climate crisis".
- Presenting a paper in the ACUNS 2023 Annual Meeting (online) 21-22 June 2023, on Multilateralism from Southeast Asia
- Presenting a paper in the Finnish Political Science Association Jyväskylä 11-12 May 2021, "Multilateralism from Southeast Asia: Climate Crisis Perspective" based on the paper here
- organising/chairing a panel "Democracy in Middle-Income Countries" in the Finnish Political Science Association, Åbo Akademi, 10-12 May 2021, and presenting a paper "The Role of Parliament in Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Southeast Asia in International Parliamentary Forums". (the paper is published), Workshops – Statsvetardagarna 2021 (abo.fi)
- Webinar for Expert Event for the sub-commitee for Development Cooperation of the student of the University of Jyväskylä, 29 April 2021, "The Impact of Global Education Policy in Indonesia".
- Presenting a paper in an online conference, “Transformation of Education in the Pandemic” 30 November 2020 organized by the International University of Information Technology, Kazakhstan “Transformation of Education in the Pandemic” (iitu.edu.kz)
- Organizing an international online seminar SDG 4 2020 for the University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Education and Psychology, 22-23 October 2020. The seminar is organised in Howspace www.jyu.fi/edupsy/en/events/sdg4seminar
- Organising a panel "Parliamentary Affairs" in the Finnish Political Science Association Tampere, 12-13 March 2020, and presenting a paper "Assessing Policy Impact of Parliament in Sustainable Development Goals: Indonesia and World Parliamentary Forum on Sustainable Development 2017-2019".
- Conference participation 27-28 July 2019: “Multi-parliamentary governance and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)” in United Kingdom, Wroxton Workshop for Parliamentarians and Scholars, http://wroxtonworkshop.org/
- Conference presentation 2-4 July 2019:“Parliaments and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Is Public Policy through Multi-Parliamentary Cooperation possible? in the 15eme Congres de l'AFSP/Association Francaise de Scinece Politiques/ 8eme CoSPoF, Bordeaux, France
- Conference presentation 12-13 February 2019 "Parliamentary Ethnography: Culture and politics entangled in the plenary forums" in the Ethnotwist conference, University of Jyväskylä
- Conference presentation 18-19 January 2019, “Europe and (Southeast) Asia Relations through Parliaments: culture and politics entangled” (Panel of Europe's foreign relations) in KATSE-FISA 6th annual conference
- Conference presentation 4-5 September 2018,"Social Science Research on Southeast Asia" in International Symposium on Social Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Conference presentation 9-10.3.2017: "Parliamentary Politics and Regional Challenges in ASEAN" in Conference of Finnish Political Science Association, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Conference presentation 16-17.2.2017: "Europe and Southeast Asia: power, authority and SDG" in Finnish Society for Development Research, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Conference presentation, 19-20.3.2015: "Parliamentary Reforms through parliamentary procedure: a lesson-learnt from the Indonesian parliament, in Conference of Finnish Political Science Association, Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland.
- Conference presentation, 6-7.3.2014: “Parliament versus Representation in Indonesian Regional Parliament” in Conference of Finnish Political Science Association, Tampere, Finland.
- Public lecture 29.5.2013: “Political Role of the local parliaments in Indonesia in post-Suharto’s democratization (1999-2009)”, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
- Conference presentation 28.2.2013: “The local parliament in parliamentary debate 2009”, DAS Conference, Helsinki, Finland.
- Conference presentation 23.9.2011: “Local Parliament in Indonesia, a minority subject?”, NISN Third Annual Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Conference presentation 1.9.2011: “Local Parliament in Indonesia- DPRD in the 2004 Parliamentary Debate”, DAS Conference, Tampere, Finland.
- Conference presentation 13.6.2011: “Political Language in the Indonesian Parliament”, Concepta Seminar 'Re-thinking Parliament', Jyväskylä, Finland. http://www.concepta-net.org/research_training_seminar_rethinking_parliaments
- Conference presentation 12.2.2011: “Language and Dissent in Indonesian Parliament”, DAS Conference, Oulu, Finland.
- Conference presentation 21.1.2011: “Language and Dissent in Indonesian Parliament” in Conference of Finnish Political Science Association, Jyväskylä, Finland.
- KITLV Lunch Seminar presentation 15.12.2010: “Political Condition of Local Parliamentary in Indonesia”, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Conference presentation 21.10.2010: “The Dutch Colonial Policy in Indonesia” in Finnish Historical Research Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Conference presentation 14.10.2010: “Legacy of (Colonial) Dutch Government in Indonesian”, POLITU seminar on Parliament Democracy, Parliament and Government in Europe, Brussels, Belgium.
- Conference presentation 22.9.2010: “Legacy of (Colonial) Dutch Government in Indonesian Parliament Crossing The Divide between internal and external politics”, Mariehamn, Åland, Finland.
- GSAS Seminar 24.8.2010: “Indonesia’s Local Parliament/ DPRD the Parliamentary Debate of 1999”, Turku, Finland.
- Conference presentation 10.3.2010: “Debate on Local Parliament in Indonesia 1999”, Finnish Political Science Association, Helsinki, Finland.
- Conference presentation 18.1.2010: “Research Proposal of Political Condition for Indonesian Local Parliament”, DAS Seminar, Helsinki, Finland.
*GSAS = Graduate School of Asian Studies, changed in 2011 into DAS = Doctoral Graduate School of Contemporary Asian Studies
Research visits
2025 Dean's Strategic Funding, University of Jyväskylä, ethnographic trips to parliaments in Southeast Asia
Post-doc Fellowship (funded by Kone Foundation and University of Jyväskylä travel grant)
1. Freiburg, Germany, host by Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute/University of Freiburg, 5 June - 23 July 2017 (including seminar)
Doctoral research visits (all funded by Mobility Grants, University of Jyväskylä)
1. Leiden, Netherlands, host by KITLV, 24 Nov 2010 - 5 Jan 2011 (including seminar)
2. Jakarta, Indonesia, host by KITLV, 16 June - 18 August 2011 (including seminars)
3. Yogyakarta, Indonesia, host by Gadjah Mada University, 17 May - 16 Aug 2013 (including lecture and seminar)
