Andi Achdian is an assistant-professor at Program Studi Sosiologi, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Nasional, where he has been a faculty member since 2017.  His research interests is in the area of urban politics and anti colonial movement the twentieth century in Indonesia. He is also a managing editor of Jurnal Sejarah, an official publication of Masyarakat Sejarwaan Indonesia (MSI).

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (the last 5 years)

2016 : Tata Kelola Perkotaan Modern (Urban Governance) di Kota

Surabaya – Universitas Indonesia

2016 : Baseline Research on Violence Against Women and Early

Mariage—Oxfam Indonesia

2015 : Case study on Desa Adat in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Bali, dan Sumatera Selatan, Kementrian Desa, Daerah Tertinggal, dan Transmigrasi

2015 : Women Trade and Border Society. A case study on border trade in Papua and Papua New Guinea – Ministry of Trade

2014 : Beneficiary Survey and Program Evaluation (2007-2014) Partnerships For Governance Reform

2013 : Village Autonomy and Adat in Indonesia – Partnership for Governance Reform

Abidin Kusno is Professor at Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto where he also serves as director of York Centre for Asian Research. His academic work draws upon a range of fields including architecture, urban history, politics, and cultural studies. He wrote After the New Oder (Hawaii University Press, 2013); The Appearances of Memory (Duke University Press, 2010); Behind the Postcolonial (Routledge, 2000).

AWARDS / GRANTS

2016-2020: SSHRC Standard Research Grant for research on Flooding and Environmental Politics in Southeast Asia

2007-2010: SSHRC Standard Research Grant for research on the contemporary remaking of the capital city of Indonesia.

2006: Research Development Funds, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia

2006: Theme Development Fund, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies on Visual Cultures of Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia and North America

2004-2014: UBC-Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture (included CFI Funds for Asian Urban Lab)

Farabi Fakih is a lecturer at the History Department, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. His main research interests are on the history of Indonesian state decolonization, urban and business history. He is currently working on a project on knowledge decolonization with Leiden and Amsterdam University looking at the decolonization of business and the firm in Indonesia’s petroleum industry. His book titled Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period has recently been published by Brill-KITLV.