Gender and Politics in Post-Reformasi Indonesia (PDF)

Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi is senior researcher at Research Center for Politics, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) (formerly known as Indonesian Institute of Sciences, LIPI) since December 2000. Her research interests are in gender and politics, women and politics, gender and Islam, local politics, and civil society. She is the founder and coordinator of the Gender and Politics research team at BRIN since 2015. She has been actively building networks with international feminists and scholars and was elected as Secretary-General of the Asian Association of Women's Studies (AAWS) 2020-2022. She has a bachelor's degree in politics with Cumlaude from Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Diponegoro University in 2000, and has an M.A. (with first class honors) from the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University (2007). She obtained her Ph.D. in Area Studies from Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) Kyoto University (2012). Some of her scholarly works can be found in prominent journal such as Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Asian Studies Review, SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Asian Women, Indonesian Feminist Journal. Some of her key publications are: Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-SuAharto Indonesia (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press and Kyoto University Press, 2015); "Motherhood Identity in the 2019 Indonesian Presidential Elections: Populism and Political Division in the National Women's Movement", Contemporary Southeast Asia vol. 42, no. 2 (August 2020): 224-50.