Team Members
Juanita Elias
Juanita Elias is Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics & International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She brings to this project her expertise on gender and employment and Southeast Asian competitiveness policies. She has published her research widely including in highly ranked international academic journals. Her most recent book publications are I-PEEL: International Political Economy of Everyday Life co-authored with James Brassett, Lena Rethel and Ben Richardson (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Gender Politics and the Pursuit of Competitiveness in Malaysia (Routledge 2020). She has held research grants from the British Council, Innovate UK and the Australian Research Council. At Warwick University she has served as her department’s Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
Lena Rethel
Lena Rethel is a Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research focuses on the intersection of finance and development. Lena’s recent books are The International Political Economy of Everyday Life (co-authored, Oxford University Press, 2022) and The Political Economy of Financial Development in Malaysia (Routledge, 2021). From 2020-2022, Lena was the lead editor of the Review of International Political Economy. Lena has previously held positions as a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University (2016-2017) and as a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (2017-2018). Lena is a past participant of the DIKTI World Class Professor Program. Her work on Islamic economies was supported by a research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. Lena was recently awarded a UKRI Frontier Research Grant (ERC Consolidator Conversion) for her next project on “The Politics of Financial Citizenship (FinDem)”. It is informed by the overarching research question of how middle-class expectations shape financial policy and politics in emerging market democracies.
Website: www.warwick.ac.uk/LRethel
Ella S. Prihatini
Ella Syafputri Prihatini is a non‐resident fellow at the Institut Pemikiran Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Universiti Utara Malaysia. Her research focuses on women’s political representation, digital media, and comparative politics in Asia. Her work has been published in Politics and Gender, Contemporary Politics, Parliamentary Affairs, and others. She has contributed book chapters on substantive representation in Asian parliaments (Routledge) and the progress of women’s political representation in Indonesia (ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute).
Ella graduated from Universitas Gadjah Mada (bachelor’s in international relations in 2004), the University of Queensland (master’s in development practice in 2010), and the University of Western Australia (Ph.D. in political science and international relations in 2019). Her master’s degree was funded by the Australian Development Scholarships (ADS), and she was an Endeavour scholar during her doctoral program. Ella was named one of Australia’s Top 40 Researchers in a special ‘Stars of Research’ report published by The Australian in September 2019.
Diahhadi Setyonaluri
Diahhadi Setyonaluri or Ruri is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia. She is a researcher at Institute for Economic and Social Research, or Lembaga Penyelidikan Ekonomi Masyarakat (LPEM), and the Demographic Institute or Lembaga Demografi (LD), both within the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitas Indonesia.
Her research focuses on demography and gender in economic development. In 2015, she received the Indonesia Project Small Research Grants for her research on the Negotiation Between Work, Care and Traffic in Mega Urban Region of Jakarta and the research finding was published in Gender, Work and Organization. Ruri received Japan’s Sumitomo Research Grants in 2016 for her research on Gender Norms and Post-marital Labour Force Participation in Indonesia and Japan. In 2020, she was involved in Women Informal Food Network in Greater Jakarta (in collaboration with Asian Research Center University of Indonesia and University of Melbourne), social norms and women’s economic participation, Social norms and female labour force participation in urban Indonesia (with JPAL Southeast Asia), Young women skill gap in South Sulawesi (research grant from PAIR Australia-Indonesia Council) and Time use agency with PROSPERA and Investing in Women Asia. She also co-authored in some research reports, including Labour market transition in South Africa and Indonesia and Maternity Leave in Metropolitan Indonesia.
In 2022, she co-convenes the Indonesia Update conference on Gender Equality and Diversity in Indonesia: Identifying Progress and Challenges. The chapters from the conference were published in a book with the same title to the conference. The e-book version is available online through ISEAS Publishing.
In 2024, she and Ella Prihatini received a research grant from the ODI-ALIGN to examine the relationship between gender norms and women’s political participation, depicting women’s engagement in politics during the 2024’s general election.
Ruri is also currently appointed as the Head of Graduate Program in Population and Labour Studies (Magister Ekonomi Kependudukan dan Ketenagakerjaan) at the Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Indonesia.
She earned her PhD from the Australian National University in 2013, with a dissertation on “Determinants of women’s employment exit and return in Indonesia”.
Hardy Salim
Hardy Salim is a research assistant at LPEM Universitas Indonesia. He recently completed his BA in Economics from Universitas Indonesia in 2023, with research interests primarily in macroeconomics and development. He also assisted other research projects with Bank of Indonesia and Ministry of Investment, which strengthened his skills in data analysis and policy analysis.
