Can collective reading contribute to democratic resistance? In my essay for LSE's SEA Centre Blog, I reflect on Indonesia's #MembacaMelawan (Reading[is]Resisting) movement, and suggest three ways that collective reading can contribute to democratic resistance: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2026/07...

🎉 Congratulations to @dhilaprimandari.bsky.social who made the Loop Best Blog longlist for their article 'Does our understanding of democratic consolidation have a male bias?' from our 🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy series. 👉️ buff.ly/an17r3S

🌧️ @dhilaprimandari.bsky.social & M.Ammar Hidayahtulloh reflect on the Indonesian govt response to #Sumatra's floods in Nov 2025. 🗣️ They argue that when authorities gaslight disaster victims into believing they can handle the consequences, they delegitimise victims’ suffering. 👉 bit.ly/3MgQ6ex

Democracy in Indonesia has experienced serious setback this past year. In our piece for The Conversation, M. Ammar Hidayahtulloh and I argue that this setback is underlain by a paternalistic and masculinist logic of doing politics (article is in Bahasa Indonesia): doi.org/10.64628/AAN...

On top of eroding civil liberties, the Indonesian government has been employing a discursive strategy to delegitimise its critics' democratic agency. In my short piece published by the LSE SEA Centre's blog, I explore two of these discursive strategies: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/09...

If backlash against women's inclusion constitutes democratic deconsolidation, why has it been possible to declare a democracy as consolidated without women? My short blog for ECPR's The Loop:

Yesterday I was interviewed by Radio Študent about the recent protests in Indonesia. Interviewed also were Dr Soe Tjen Marching and Andreas Harsono. The RŠ programme is in Slovenian, but our answers are in English. My comments start at 1:17, and then 7:41: radiostudent.si/politika/off...

Read this. Millions of Indonesians are in the streets protesting the policies of a corrupt president and his legislative flunkies. 🦅 🇮🇩 Selamat berjuang 🇮🇩 🦅

My latest article, discussing how most Indonesians' understanding of democracy may make efforts to sustain widespread resistance against the erosion of civil supremacy challenging: eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/22/i...

In Indonesia, contesting the government's conception of democracy has been part of the fight against democratic backsliding. My piece on the politics of (re)defining democracy in Indonesia, published by The Diplomat: thediplomat.com/2025/04/cont...