Ratih Adiputri

My research interests include politics in Southeast Asia and sustainability issues. Now, I am a member of 2 research projects (both funded by the Kone Foundation): 

(1) United Nations and Multilateralism (PI: Anna Kronlund, 2023-2025) with the connected to development and climate crisis

(2) Palm Oil Paradigm Shifts.(PI: Erja Kettunen-Matilainen, 2024-2027 Good and bad palm oil: Food security, paradigm shift and bargaining among stakeholders in Indonesia and the EU) 

My topics are relevant also to parliaments/legislative studies, policy analysis, contemporary politics, democratization, Asian political culture (Southeast Asia, Indonesia), and the global agenda of SDG (especially climate crisis, education and development). My doctoral dissertation on Indonesian parliamentary culture by analyzing the debates completed in 2015 (political science, University of Jyväskylä).

Along with research, I am also teaching for the University of Jyväskylä and the Finnish University Network for Asian Studies (asianet.fi). I am involved in designing a MOOC on the Essentials in Development Studies for Finnish University Partnership for International Development (unipid.fi) since 2022.

I was also a University Teacher in Educational Science, teaching international education policy and practices, organizing international SDG 4 seminar, in 2020, and continuously being part of Research Group on Critical Approach to Sustainability, Global Education and Development. These works related to my two popular books about Finnish Education System (2019, 2023) in the Indonesian language.

Prior to my academic life in Finland, I worked at the secretariat of the Indonesian parliament as a researcher, and a legislative specialist in projects (USAID and UNDP) for parliamentary support and empowerment in Indonesia. I was a Chevening scholar in 2009, working at the House of Lords and studying at the London School of Economics and Political Science.   

I also one of writer members in G20 ThinkTank, writing a Policy Brief as a team member with researchers from Finland, Indonesia and Japan, about Aquaculture in a sustainable way (2022); members of reviewers in academic journals, such as Journal of Parliamentary Affairs (Oxford University Press), Journal Politics and Governance (Cogitatio Press) and Evolving Pedagogy journal, Jyväskylä University of Applied Science/JAMK; and actively write op-ed articles in newspaper, such as in Politiikasta and Kompas Indonesian national newspapers. 

I had been a visiting fellow in: 

• Germany: Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI)/University of Freiburg 
• Indonesia: Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia (Politics and Governance Unit)  
• Netherlands at KITLV Leiden & Jakarta  

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