Organizer: Center for Foreign Policy Studies, Seton Hall University and NYSEAN
Type/Location: In person / South Orange
Description:
Join NYSEAN and the Center for Foreign Policy Studies, Seton Hall University, for a discussion of Indonesia’s February 2024 election and its political implications with Nava Nuraniyah, a PhD scholar at the Department of Political and Social Change, ANU, moderated by Ann Marie Murphy. The February election victory of Prabowo Subianto, a former general who was dismissed from the military for attempting to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power from his one-time father-in-law and long-time dictator Suharto, has raised fears that Indonesia’s democratic era, 25 years in the making, will see further backsliding and may slide into autocracy. Nava Nuraniyah will discuss the prospects for democracy, Islamic politics and civil society activism in Indonesia following Prabowo’s ascension to the presidency.
Navhat (Nava) Nuraniyah is a PhD scholar at the Department of Political and Social Change, ANU. Her research focuses on how Islamist opposition movements respond to political repression in Indonesia. From 2015 to early 2020, she was an analyst at the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), where she conducted extensive research on violent extremism, communal conflicts, gender and terrorism, and Islamist activism in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Before joining IPAC, she was an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Nava completed a dual-master’s program in International Relations and Diplomacy at ANU in 2013.
Born and raised in Indonesia, she attended traditional pesantren in East Java and Yogyakarta and obtained a bachelor degree in International Relations from Muhammadiyah University Yogyakarta. She has written for academic journals and media such as Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, The New York Times, and Sydney Morning Herald.