I like reading and writing. In overall, my research interests related to my research and teaching:
• Politics and democracy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia (courses: “Contemporary Southeast Asia”, “Urban Studies in Southeast Asia” *in preparation, “News-media in Southeast Asia”, “Democracy and Participation in middle-income countries”, “Indonesian Politics” etc.)
• Parliament/ Representation, International Parliamentary organizations, ethnography, institutionalism, conceptual history, rhetoric, social justice, globalization (course: “Finnish History, Culture and Society” (for the topic of "Finland and Globalization")
• Sustainable development goals, Global South, development issues (courses: UNIPID MOOC course: “Essential of Development Studies”, “Classics of Development Studies”, “Sustainable Development as a societal challenge”)
• International education policy and practices, pedagogy, assessment, global education crisis (course: "International Education Policies and Practices")
• Methods: comparative methods (comparative politics, ethnographic, institutionalism and case study research) and policy process and analysis
• Material: books, articles, seminars and lecture materials/webinars
Currently, the sustainable issues that I focus on are climate emergency, energy security and palm oil.
I am now one of members in two research projects at the University of Jyväskylä, both funded by the Kone Foundation, research projects of "United Nations and Legitimacy" (2023-2025) where I study multilateralism from Southeast Asia (Indonesia included) notably in climate crisis mitigation; and in another research project of "Palm Oil and paradigm shift in Indonesia and EU" (2024-2027) where I focus on paradigm shift and perspectives of multi-scalar actors on palm oil.
Post-doctoral research, funded by Kone Foundation 2017-2019, Unity and Diversity? International Parliamentary Institutions for Southeast Asia and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). I study IPU, EP and AIPA for their policy papers on SDG and Southeast Asia, also the national parliaments (Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore) and their legislations of SDG --> preparing a book manuscript on Parliaments and Sustainable Development Goals: Multi-parliamentary Governance and Europe-Southeast Asian Relations.
Doctoral dissertation research, Political culture in the Indonesian Parliament : Analyzing parliamentary debates on the regional parliaments 1999-2009, defended on 15 August 2015, Opponent Prof. R. William Liddle (Ohio State University)
The published version is here, University of Jyväskylä, 2015
The Parliamentary procedure in the Indonesian Parliament (forthcoming in academic journal Review of Indonesian Studies)
Abstract :
The Indonesian parliament, DPR (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat), has always seen to keep its tradition practices as if it is still a parliament under and authoritarian regime. Its Rules of Procedure still accommodates the political culture that arguably, would have halted the DPR to reach its full potential as a parliament body.
The paper discusses the DPR’s current working procedures and studies the contents, especially its legislative process. Although the DPR is legislatively empowered by the constitution, the procedural legacy from the previous regimes is still maintained. Studying the DPR Rules of Procedures also accentuates the role of the DPR more as a legislature, instead as a parliament, although the tradition of drafting the legislation is completely different from any other parliament, which is normally react and debate. As a rule of the game, the DPR’s Procedure is in seriously in need for revision. The discussion is divided into sections on the importance of parliamentary procedure; the historical development of the DPR; the legislative process; and on the potential for the parliamentary features based on its procedure.
The Dutch Legacy in the Indonesian Parliament (2014)
Read the Abstract and full paper here
Dealing with Political Crisis: How UK Parliament Addresses the Expenses Scandal (2010)
Read the abstract and full paper here (p. 4-26)
Regional Parliamentarization in Indonesia (2010) p. 50
My research will focus on the local parliament called DPRD in Indonesia. This is interesting subject for me as the concept of local parliament in this country has not yet been studied. The studies are mostly focus on DPRD at certain regions, not local parliamentary concept as a whole. At regions, both in provinces and districts/cities areas, the local parliament is DPRD and as part of local/regional governance, DPRD should work under the supervision of the Ministry of Home Affairs, even though has similar structure with the national parliament. This brings confusion to DPRD as it is expected to work as the parliament but to perform as the executive.
• Politics and democracy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia (courses: “Contemporary Southeast Asia”, “Urban Studies in Southeast Asia” *in preparation, “News-media in Southeast Asia”, “Democracy and Participation in middle-income countries”, “Indonesian Politics” etc.)
• Parliament/ Representation, International Parliamentary organizations, ethnography, institutionalism, conceptual history, rhetoric, social justice, globalization (course: “Finnish History, Culture and Society” (for the topic of "Finland and Globalization")
• Sustainable development goals, Global South, development issues (courses: UNIPID MOOC course: “Essential of Development Studies”, “Classics of Development Studies”, “Sustainable Development as a societal challenge”)
• International education policy and practices, pedagogy, assessment, global education crisis (course: "International Education Policies and Practices")
• Methods: comparative methods (comparative politics, ethnographic, institutionalism and case study research) and policy process and analysis
• Material: books, articles, seminars and lecture materials/webinars
Currently, the sustainable issues that I focus on are climate emergency, energy security and palm oil.
I am now one of members in two research projects at the University of Jyväskylä, both funded by the Kone Foundation, research projects of "United Nations and Legitimacy" (2023-2025) where I study multilateralism from Southeast Asia (Indonesia included) notably in climate crisis mitigation; and in another research project of "Palm Oil and paradigm shift in Indonesia and EU" (2024-2027) where I focus on paradigm shift and perspectives of multi-scalar actors on palm oil.
Post-doctoral research, funded by Kone Foundation 2017-2019, Unity and Diversity? International Parliamentary Institutions for Southeast Asia and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). I study IPU, EP and AIPA for their policy papers on SDG and Southeast Asia, also the national parliaments (Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore) and their legislations of SDG --> preparing a book manuscript on Parliaments and Sustainable Development Goals: Multi-parliamentary Governance and Europe-Southeast Asian Relations.
Doctoral dissertation research, Political culture in the Indonesian Parliament : Analyzing parliamentary debates on the regional parliaments 1999-2009, defended on 15 August 2015, Opponent Prof. R. William Liddle (Ohio State University)
The published version is here, University of Jyväskylä, 2015
The Parliamentary procedure in the Indonesian Parliament (forthcoming in academic journal Review of Indonesian Studies)
Abstract :
The Indonesian parliament, DPR (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat), has always seen to keep its tradition practices as if it is still a parliament under and authoritarian regime. Its Rules of Procedure still accommodates the political culture that arguably, would have halted the DPR to reach its full potential as a parliament body.
The paper discusses the DPR’s current working procedures and studies the contents, especially its legislative process. Although the DPR is legislatively empowered by the constitution, the procedural legacy from the previous regimes is still maintained. Studying the DPR Rules of Procedures also accentuates the role of the DPR more as a legislature, instead as a parliament, although the tradition of drafting the legislation is completely different from any other parliament, which is normally react and debate. As a rule of the game, the DPR’s Procedure is in seriously in need for revision. The discussion is divided into sections on the importance of parliamentary procedure; the historical development of the DPR; the legislative process; and on the potential for the parliamentary features based on its procedure.
The Dutch Legacy in the Indonesian Parliament (2014)
Read the Abstract and full paper here
Dealing with Political Crisis: How UK Parliament Addresses the Expenses Scandal (2010)
Read the abstract and full paper here (p. 4-26)
Regional Parliamentarization in Indonesia (2010) p. 50
My research will focus on the local parliament called DPRD in Indonesia. This is interesting subject for me as the concept of local parliament in this country has not yet been studied. The studies are mostly focus on DPRD at certain regions, not local parliamentary concept as a whole. At regions, both in provinces and districts/cities areas, the local parliament is DPRD and as part of local/regional governance, DPRD should work under the supervision of the Ministry of Home Affairs, even though has similar structure with the national parliament. This brings confusion to DPRD as it is expected to work as the parliament but to perform as the executive.
