Dr Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun
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CILIS Associate
Rafiqa is an assistant professor at the Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia. She completed her PhD at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, in December 2024.
She was an Asian Study Scholar at the National Library of Australia (in residence from July to August 2024). She was also a recipient of the 2022 Biennial Postgraduate Conference Awards from the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) and the 2021 Australia Awards Hadi Soesastro Prize from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
Her research interests include law and religion, law and politics, Indonesia’s legal reform, criminal law, blasphemy law, democratisation and Islamist politics. She has published her writings in various academic journals, such as Indonesia (Southeast Asia Program Cornell University), Australian Journal of Asian Law, Third World Quarterly, Melbourne Asia Review, Prisma, and Indonesia Law Review. Additionally, her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in several media outlets, including Indonesia at Melbourne, The Conversation, Inside Indonesia, Project Multatuli, and The Jakarta Post.
Rafiqa’s book manuscript, adapted from her PhD thesis, will be published in the Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia series.