Featured Sumitro Fellows:

2013| Tonny Dian Effendi

Tonny Dian Effendi is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia. His expertise are Diplomacy Studies and International Relations in East Asia. Director of his department since 2011, he is also Chairman of the Indonesian Association of International Relations (2012-2013). He was a participant of the Youth Leader Forum on Pacific Forum of Centre for Strategic and International Affairs (CSIS) in 2012 and Visiting Research Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs in 2009-2010. Since 2010 he has published several books including: Japan’s Public Diplomacy: Growth and Challenges (2011), The Family Business Network of China, Japan and South Korea (2012), and The Sustainability of Communism in China: A Historic-Political Sociology Approach (2013). Tonny has a Master’s degree in Political Sociology from the University of Muhammadiyah Malang and a Bachelor of Science degree in International Relations Science from the University of Jember.

2013| Dominic Nardi

Dominic Nardi is a PhD student in the University of Michigan Political Science Department. He is interested in judicial politics in developing countries, particularly in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Myanmar. His dissertation research focuses on how non-state actors influence judicial behavior. Dominic has published articles about judicial politics in Southeast Asia in both law journals and magazine editorials. In addition, he has worked as a consultant with legal organizations in Indonesia and the Philippines, including the Asia Foundation. He earned a Master’s degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.

2012| Hendi Yogi Prabowo

Hendi Yogi Prabowo is a lecturer at the Accounting Programme of the Islamic University of Indonesia. He obtained his PhD from the University of Wollongong Australia under the Australian Leadership Award scholarship, his Master of Forensic Accounting from the University of Wollongong under the Endeavour Australia – Asia Postgraduate Award scholarship, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the Islamic University of Indonesia. Hendi is now teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Faculty of Economics of the Islamic University of Indonesia. His expertise is in the area of forensic accounting with a sub specialization in financial criminology, focusing on human behavior aspects of fraud and fraud investigation. He is among the first Indonesians formally educated in the area of forensic accounting at both Masters and Doctorate levels and is currently the Director as well as the founder of the Centre for Forensic Accounting Studies at the Islamic University of Indonesia. Hendi has been actively writing about issues in forensic accounting in various national and international newspapers, as well as international journals. He has also been giving speeches and presentations about forensic accounting in various seminars, workshops, and trainings.

2012| Keith Bettinger

Keith Bettinger is a doctoral candidate from the Department of Geography at the University of Hawaii. He earned a Master’s degree in International Affairs from George Washington University and another in secondary education from Centenary College of Louisiana. Keith’s research focuses on the political ecology of national parks; he works to identify the social, economic, and political drivers of environmental change. He is currently a Fulbright-Hays fellow and previously was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for work on national parks in Malaysia. While currently focusing on academic research, Keith has previously contributed to Malaysiakini, the Asia Times, and the Honolulu Weekly. His dissertation project is entitled “Exploring the Political Edge: Conservation in an Era of Political Decentralization at Indonesia’s Kerinci Seblat National Park. In his free time Keith enjoys surfing, sailing, and reading.

2011| Sony Karsono

Sony Karsono is currently pursuing his Doctoral degree in History and a graduate certificate in Contemporary History at Ohio University. Prior to that, he received his Master’s degree in Southeast Asian History from the same institution. He was the recipient of various fellowships and awards,  such as: the Graduate Fellowship from Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University; Fulbright Scholarship from Institute of International Education and Aminef; and the WGM Research Fellowship from Rijkuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands. He previously worked for Voice of America and at the Institute for Alternative Social Sciences (Institut Ilmu Sosial Alternatif) in Surabaya, Indonesia. Throughout his career as a researcher and writer, he authored notable articles, short stories and research projects, including: “Setting History Straight? Indonesian Historiography in the New Order”; The Parliament Members’ Visions of Indonesia’s Future 2000-2010;  Transnational Justice dan Hak-hak Buruh [Transitional justice and workers’ rights], and in Keadilan dalam Masa Transisi [Justice in the time of transition]. He is currently working on his dissertation, entitled “In Pursuit of Domesticated Modernity? Indonesia in the New Order, 1966-1998.”