Research expertise

• Australian Politics
• Australian Foreign Policy
• Global Political Economy
• Trade Politics

Selected publications

Journals

• “Palm oil politics in Malaysia and Indonesia: competition or collaboration?” in JATI – Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, p. 47-64.
• “Economic Boom or Gloom?: The Political Economy of Australia’s Resource Industry” in Multiversa Journal of International Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2013
• “Bali Democracy Forum as Indonesia’s Initiative on Promoting South-South Cooperation: Advancing Democracy in the Global South” co-author with Karina Utami Dewi, in Multiversa Journal of International Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2012.

Other public research outputs

• “Revisiting Australia-Indonesia Economic Relations: Close but still far?”, presented at International Political Science Association 25th World Congress of Political Science, Brisbane, Australia, July 21-25, 2018.
• “Domestic tensions and external threats: Revisiting the politics of innovation in Southeast Asia”, presented at The International Conference on Southeast Asia, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 6-7 December 2017.
• “Low politics as policy priority: reshaping Australia-Indonesia relations”, presented at the Australian Political Studies Association Conference 2016, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 25-28 September 2016.
• “Malaysia and Indonesia in Southeast Asian food politics”, presented at the International conference on Malaysia-Indonesia Relations (PAHMI), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16-17 August 2016.
• “Examining Australia’s humanitarian response to asylum seekers: an Indonesian perspective”, presented at the 5th Annual Conference of Japan Association for Human Security Studies, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, 12-13 December 2015.
• “How Indonesia’s elections differ from Australia’s”, in The Conversation Australia, April 2019.
• “Correspondence on Hugh White’s – The Jakarta Switch”, in Australian Foreign Affairs, October 2018.
• “How will Australia’s plan to move its embassy to Jerusalem affect relations with Indonesia?”, in The Conversation Australia, October 2018.
• “What Indonesia expects from Australia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison”, in The Conversation Australia, August 2018.
• “Cabinet papers 1994-95: How a security agreement allayed Australian anxiety over Indonesia”, in The Conversation Australia, December 2017.
• “Between perceptions and realities of Australian-Indonesian attitudes: a view from Indonesia”, in The Conversation Australia, September 2016.
• “Views from abroad: how does the world see Australia’s political instability? Indonesia isn’t too reliant on a single party” in The Conversation Australia, July 2016.
• “View from abroad on the election: Indonesians need to rethink party stereotypes” in The Conversation Australia, June 2016.
• “The Landscape of Government Policies to Support Research in Indonesian Universities”, presented at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, 6 August 2017
• “Political Islam in Indonesia: Addressing Challenges”, presented at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, The United Kingdom, 17 November 2016.
• “Palm Oil Politics in Indonesia”, presented at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, Semenyih, Malaysia, 20 November 2016.

Selected teachings

• SHI512 Area Studies: Australia
• SHI402 Global Political Economy
• SHI616 Politics of International Trade
• SHI302 Theories in International Relations

Undergraduate thesis supervision

• Australia’s Politics and Foreign Policy – 8 students (ongoing)
• Latin America’s Democracy and Political Economy – 5 students (completed)
• Politics of Indonesian Trade and Investment – 1 student

Availability for supervision

• No