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Laila Kholid Alfirdaus

(She/Her)
Chair of Doctoral Program in Social Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro

SAYA Associate Professor, dan peraih penghargaan "Dosen Berprestasi I Kategori Sosial Humaniora" (2017) di Universitas Diponegoro. Tahun 2020 saya terpilih menjadi salah satu Author of the Year #TCIDAuthorAwards2020 untuk kategori isu lingkungan hidup. Saya merupakan alumnus program Science Leadership Collaborative, The Conversation Indonesia, Batch pertama, 2022.

Women’s Empowerment in Village Governance Transformation in Indonesia: Between Hope and Criticism (Volume 15, Issue 1, doi 10.1177/0973005219836576), artikel yang saya tulis bersama Kushandajani, menjadi salah satu dari, "Ten articles that were downloaded the most from January 2022 through December 2022" (International Journal of Rural Management, SAGE, 2023).

Research interest saya adalah public policy dan governance. Topik sebagai studi kasus mencakup gender dan pembangunan, tambang dan industri ekstraktif umumnya, remaja dan kesehatan mental, energi terbarukan dan perubahan iklim, serta pemuda dan digital entrepreneurship.

SELAIN riset akademik, di ranah praktis saya bekerja secara individual maupun melalui lembaga profesional/independen sebagai konsultan ahli kebijakan dan tatakelola pemerintahan.

Sebagai team leader maupun senior team member, saya melakukan final dan midterm program evaluation, menjadi trainer pada pelatihan capacity building, serta menulis policy review untuk lembaga pembangunan internasional baik entitas publik maupun nonprofit. Saya juga berpengalaman dalam menyusun berbagai dokumen renstra sektoral dan tahunan lembaga pemerintah.

Antara lain, kurun waktu 2013-2016, di bawah manajemen Transtec—perusahaan konsultan pembangunan berbasis di Belgia, yang kini merger dengan Cowater International—saya menjadi national expert untuk evaluasi akhir tiga program pengembangan demokrasi dan tata kelola pemerintahan the United Nation Democracy Fund (UNDEF) di Indonesia yang dilaksanakan oleh IRE, CSIS dan Perkumpulan Prodeelat.

Masih di bidang yang sama—di bawah manajemen CIRCLE Indonesia—tahun 2022 saya menjadi team leader kajian evaluasi dampak dari program-program yang dilaksanakan Kemitraan-Partnership for Governance Reform di Indonesia.

Terkait kampanye kepemimpinan perempuan dan isu kesetaraan gender, tahun 2022 sebagai individu konsultan bekerja untuk MAGDALENE—"a bilingual online magazine that educates, empowers and push for a more equal society through solution-driven journalism" (Magdalene, "Profile", 2023). Fokus evaluasi program menyangkut dampak media campaign dengan fokus kesetaraan gender dan kepemimpinan perempuan di Indonesia.

Sementara di bidang public health, tahun 2022 secara individual saya dikontrak Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) guna menyusun policy review mengenai “Interventions for Adolescent Mental Health Promotion.” Kajian serupa dilaksanakan oleh RTI di UK, Mesir, Afrika Selatan dan India.

Saya juga melakukan policy review program Young Health dengan fokus non-communicable disease (NCD) untuk Plan International Indonesia yang didanai Astra Zeneca tahun 2021.

Masih perihal public health policy—namun di tataran riset aksi—pada 2021-2022 bersama Tim PATTIRO Semarang, saya menginisiasi desain riset aksi sekaligus terlibat dalam advokasi kebijakan "Dana Desa untuk Percepatan Penanggulangan Tuberculosis di Indonesia". Program evidence-based policy advocacy ini didanai The Stop TB Partnership Indonesia, lembaga subsidiary dari Stop TB Parnership, sebuah entitas di bawah the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). Difasilitasi Kantor Staf Presiden RI, riset advokasi ini berhasil memasukkan komponen pembiayaan TB di Peraturan Menteri Desa dan PDT tentang pelaksanaan Dana Desa tahun 2022.

GELAR doktoral saya raih pada program internasional Ph.D, bidang Inter-Religious Studies, di Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS), Sekolah Pasca Sarjana, Universitas Gadjah Mada. “Social Solidarity Between Minangkabau and Chinese Ethnic Groups in Post-2009 Earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia: Transforming Disaster Policy and Governance Framework", penelitian disertasi saya, selesai tahun 2016. Selama mengejar studi PhD, saya berhasil mendapatkan pendanaan bersumber dari The Henry Luce Foundation untuk mengikuti program sandwich di Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware pada musim gugur 2013. Selain itu, sebagian dari penelitian saya juga mendapatkan dukungan dari The Latin America/Africa/Asia/Scholarly Collaborative Program yang dibiayai oleh Konsorsium Tri-continental South-South Cooperation Program (CODESRIA, CLACSO, IDEAs).

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Gender Specialist, Diponegoro University's Urban and Regional Planning Department—Contributing to the development of ICZM modules and delivering trainings, with specialization on gender analysis of ICZM, in cooperation between ICZM Center, Deltares and IHE DELFT
  • 2023–present
    Chair, Doctoral Program in Social Science, Diponegoro University
  • 2021–present
    Associate professor, Department of Politics and Government, Diponegoro University
  • 2021–2022
    Senior Team Member, PATTIRO Semarang—Action Research for Village Funds’ Allocation for Supporting TBC Elimination by 2030 and 2050
  • 2022–2022
    Team Leader (Under CIRCLE Indonesia Management), KEMITRAAN, The Partnership for Governance Reform—Conducting Impact Evaluation Research on Strategic Plan 2017-2021
  • 2022–2022
    Lead Consultant, BAPPEDA Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan—Formulating and Training on Planning Quality Index
  • 2022–2022
    Consultant, RTI International—Conducting policy review on Investment Case Analysis of Adolescent Mental Health Indonesia
  • 2021–2021
    Team Leader (Under CIRCLE Indonesia's Management), Wahana Visi Indonesia--Conducting LEAP 3 Area Program Evaluation, East Sumba Area Program
  • 2021–2021
    Team Leader, Plan International Indonesia—Conducting a policy review for the Young Health Program
  • 2021–2021
    Team Leader (Under CIRCLE Indonesia's Management), Oxfam GB Indonesia—Conducting Annual Outcome Survey for the Creating Space Project (by Oxfam Indonesia under coordination of Oxfam Canada
  • 2005–2021
    Lecturer, Department of Politics and Government, Diponegoro University
  • 2021–2021
    Policy and Governance Specialist, HIVOS—Policy Assessment and Stakeholder Mapping on Household Biogas (BIRU, Biogas Rumah)
  • 2020–2021
    Chair, MA Program in Political Science, Diponegoro University
  • 2021–2021
    National Meeting Facilitator (under CIRCLE Indonesia's Management), Annual Participatory Review 4 for Green Climate Funds, by National Designated Authority Green Climate Funds Indonesia (NDA GCF Indonesia, with Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
  • 2020–2021
    Team Leader (Under CIRCLE Indonesia's Management), Plan International Indonesia—Conducting an evaluation research on Tech Muda project
  • 2017–2020
    Editor-in-chief, POLITIKA - Jurnal Ilmu Politik, Universitas Diponegoro
  • 2018–2020
    Chair (Ketua), Dewan Riset Daerah Kabupaten Rembang (Research Council, Rembang Regency), Jawa Tengah (Central Java)
  • 2020–2020
    Consultant, BAPPEDA Rembang—Formulating Planning Quality Index, Rembang regency
  • 2017–2017
    Policy Expert, Indonesia KOMPAK (Governance for Growth)—Workshops on “Village Authorities Identification as an Implementation of Law No. 6/2014 on Village” in 3 districts in Central Java, namely Brebes, Pemalang and Pekalongan
  • 2014–2016
    Principal Researcher (Grant Awardee), The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the International Development Economic Associates (IDEAs)—The Africa/Asia/Latin America SOUTH-SOUTH Scholarly Collaborative Programme
  • 2015–2016
    Research associate, Gender Studies Center, Indonesian Islamic University (UII)—Conducting empowerment mapping research project, funded by Office of Society and Gender Empowerment, Yogyakarta City, Indonesia
  • 2016–2016
    National Expert (Transtec/Cowater International), United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF)—Final project evaluations on “Developing Alternative Models of Natural Resource Governance Based on Indigenous Community Participation in Aceh, Indonesia” with Perkumpulan Prodeelat, Aceh, as grantee
  • 2014–2014
    National Expert (Transtec/Cowater International), United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF)—Final project evaluations on “Empowering Civil Society Groups to Promote Social Accountability in Papua (Indonesia)”, with Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) as a grantee
  • 2013–2013
    Visiting Fellow, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, Amerika Serikat, dengan dukungan The Henry Luce Foundation
  • 2012–2012
    National Expert (Transtec/Cowater International), United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF)—Final project evaluations on "Strengthening Local NGOs in Areas Where Extractive Industries Operate (Indonesia)" with Institute for Research and Empowerment (IRE) as a grantee
  • 2010–2010
    Local Research Associate, The Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, California, The United States (Working with Dr. Christian von Lueke)

Education

  • 2023 
    Science Leadership Collaboration, the Conversation Indonesia, Non-degree Training
  • 2018 
    Pusat Pengembangan Kapasitas Pemerintahan dan Kemasyarakatan, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Non-degree Training on Regional Planning
  • 2017 
    International Ph.D Program in Inter-Religious Studies, the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS), the Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)
  • 2012 
    ConstitutionNet and International IDEA’s Constitution-Building Programme, Barcelona, Non-degree course in Constitution
  • 2008 
    Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University, Canberra, Master of Public Policy (MPP) with Honors
  • 2004 
    Jurusan Ilmu Pemerintahan, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Sarjana Ilmu Politik (SI.P) with (Summa) Cum Laude

Publications

  • 2023
    Within-Community Conflict on Mining Policy: Assessing Implication in Rural Indonesia (co-author), Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2023
    Disputing land: argumentative turn in local land policy conflict in Central Java, Indonesia, OTORITAS: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2022
    Dinamika Kebijakan Pemanfaatan Dana Desa untuk Percepatan Eliminasi Tuberculosis di Indonesia (co-authoring with Retna Hanani & Widi Nugroho), Buku hasil riset advokasi kebijakan berbasis bukti kerjasama PATTIRO Semarang dan didanai Stop TB Partnership Indonesia. Diterbitkan oleh Ladang Kata, Semarang
  • 2022
    Anti-feminist Movement, Hegemonic Patriarchy, and Gender Equality Challenges: The Case of the Sexual Violence Elimination Bill (co-authoring with Lupyta Agra Divina and Fitriyah), HUMANIORA, a journal on advance study of humanities, published by Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2022
    Women's Role in Village-Based Renewable Energy Development: Assessing the Challenges and Supports, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Environment, Agriculture and Tourism, ICOSEAT, 2022 (Atlantis Press, part of Springer Nature)
  • 2022
    Self-empowered Palm Oil Small-holder Farmers: The Case of Tani Subur Cooperative, Kotawaringin Barat, Indonesia (co-authoring with S. R. Manalu, H. T. Ardianto, and K. Kushandajani), POLITIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Politik, published by Master Program in Political Science, University of Diponegoro (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2021
    Generosity as Capital to Win: Ethnic Minority Chinese and Social Capital in Belu Government Head's Election 2015, East Nusa Tenggara (co-authoring with Adeo Mbiri), Politik Indonesia: Indonesia Political Science Review, published by Universitas Negeri Semarang (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2021
    Imajinasi tentang Perbatasan: Masyarakat Daerah Tertinggal, Anak Muda dan Pemberdayaan (a contributor of one book chapter), Junita Budi Rahman (Ed.). Inovasi Sains untuk Pembangunan Perbatasan Indonesia. Diterbitkan UGM Press atas kerjasama Badan Nasional Pengelola Perbatasan Republik Indonesia dengan Forum Perguruan Tinggi untuk Perbatasan (FOPERTAS)
  • 2021
    Partisipasi Politik dan Pemilih Muda: Konteks Pilgub Jateng 2018 dan Pilkada 2019 di Kabupaten Temanggung (co-author), POLITIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Politik (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2020
    Identity Politics within Tribe in Village Government's Head Election: A case study in Wederok Village, Malaka Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (co-author), COSMOGOV: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan, FISIP Universitas Padjadjaran (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2020
    The politics of local government environmental evaluations: Assessing bureaucracy in post-Reformasi Indonesia (co-author), The Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa. Jurnal peer-reviewed diterbitkan Auckland University of Technology (indexed in Scopus, Q2)
  • 2020
    Koalisi Masyarakat Sipil Dalam Advokasi Kebijakan Relokasi Warga Tambakrejo Kota Semarang (co-author), Jurnal Profetik Politik, Jurnal Departemen Ilmu Politik, Department of Political Science, Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin
  • 2019
    Mining Sector Under New Law of Decentralization: A Lesson from Some Districts in Central Java Province, Politik Indonesia: Indonesian Political Science Review, Universitas Negeri Semarang (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2019
    Women’s Empowerment in Village Governance Transformation in Indonesia: Between Hope and Criticism (co-author), International Journal of Rural Management, SAGE (Scopus indexed, Q3)
  • 2019
    Needed but Neglected: Women Activists as Vote Getters in Elections at the Local Level (co-author), Jurnal Politik, Jurnal FISIP, Universitas Indonesia (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2019
    Politik Familisme di Tubuh Partai Islam Lokal: Studi Kasus Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP) Kabupaten Rembang (co-author), Jurnal Review Politik, Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Filsafat UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya (SINTA 2)
  • 2018
    Botoh dan Pembiayaan Pilkada Alternatif (co-author, book chapter), Sukmajati, M., & Perdana, A. (Eds.). Pembiayaan Pemilu di Indonesia. Diterbitkan oleh Badan Pengawas Pemilihan Umum Republik Indonesia
  • 2018
    Menajamkan Perspektif Gender, Memberdayakan Perempuan, EGALITA: Jurnal Kesetaraan dan Keadilan Gender, UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
  • 2017
    Disengaged Citizens: Involuntarily Returned and Relocated Transmigrants in Southern Kebumen, PCD Journal, Universitas Gadjah Mada
  • 2017
    Planting the Culture of Democracy: Kaliurang, Yogyakarta and Padang, West Sumatra Post-2010 Merapi Volcano Eruption and 2009 Sumatran Earthquake (book chapter), Chachavalpongpun, P. (Ed). The Blooming Years: Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. Diterbitkan Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
  • 2017
    When ‘home’ is not home , Inside Indonesia 129: July - September
  • 2016
    The Position of Minang-Chinese Relationship in he History of Inter-ethnic Groups Relations in Padang, West Sumatra, HUMANIORA, Jurnal Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, UGM (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2016
    Developing alternative models of natural resource governance based on indigenous community participation in Aceh, Indonesia (co-author), Final Project Evaluation, United Nation Democracy Fund
  • 2016
    Democracy From Below: Cultural Practices and Grassroots Initiatives in Indonesia, The Latin American Council of Social Sciences, CLACSO. Link: https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/bitstream/CLACSO/14312/1/Democracy_from_below.pdf
  • 2015
    Religion and anti-Chinese violence in Indonesian democratic transition, 1997-2004, Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik, Jurnal FISIP Universitas Airlangga (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2015
    Transformasi Konflik, Kearifan Lokal dan Peran Pemuda, Habibi, Z. (Ed.). Membumikan Transformasi Konflik. Diterbitkan dengan dukungan Berghof Foundation oleh Penerbit Komunikasi Universitas Islam Indonesia
  • 2014
    Empowering Civil Society Groups to Promote Social Accountability in Papua (co-author), Final Project Evaluation, United Nation Democracy Fund
  • 2014
    To Be Self Advocates: What Southeast Asian Countries Can Learn from Indonesia (book chapter), Fitriani, E., Seda, F. S., & Maryam, Y. (Eds.). Governance of Extractive Industries: Assessing National Experiences to Inform Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia. Universitas Indonesia Press.
  • 2014
    Disaster and Discrimination: The Ethnic Chinese Minority in Padang in the Aftermath of the September 2009 Earthquake, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, ISEAS (Scopus Indexed, Q2)
  • 2014
    Politik Relasi Etnik: Matrilinealitas dan Etnik Minoritas Cina di Padang, Sumatra Barat, KOMUNITAS: International Journal of Indonesian Society & Culture, Universitas Negeri Semarang (Indexed in SINTA 2)
  • 2013
    Strengthening Local NGOs in Areas Where Extractive Industries Operate (co-author), Final Project Evaluation, United Nation Democracy Fund
  • 2013
    Islam and Local Politics: In the Quest of Kyai, Politics, and Development in Kebumen, 2008-2010, Al-Jamiah: Journal of Islamic Studies (indexed in Scopus, Q1)
  • 2012
    Diskriminasi Terhadap Etnis Cina dalam Penanganan Pasca Gempa 30 September 2009 di Kota Padang (book chapter), Indiyanto, A., & Kuswanjono, A. (Eds.). Konstruksi Masyarakat Tangguh Bencana: Kajian Integratif Ilmu, Agama, dan Budaya (Seri Agama dan Bencana Buku III). Penerbit Mizan
  • 2009
    Menganalisis Kompatibilitas Pengukuran Kemiskinan Dengan Perspektif Gender, Jurnal Analisis Sosial, AKATIGA
  • 2008
    Bukan Untuk Angka, Apalagi Pemberdayaan: Kebijakan Setengah Hati Kuota Perempuan, Jurnal Konstitusi, diterbitkan oleh Mahkamah Konstitusi Republik Indonesia
  • 2007
    Mempertahankan modal sosial pada masyarakat pasca-gempa: kasus Jogjakarta, Infourdi Volume 23, Juni-Desember 2007 (ISSN 1410-3753). Diterbitkan oleh Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI).

Grants and Contracts

  • 2013
    The Latin America/Africa/Asia/Scholarly Collaborative Program
    Role:
    Principal Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Tri-continental South-South Cooperation Program Consortium (CODESRIA, CLACSO, IDEAs)
  • 2011
    Beasiswa BPPS
    Role:
    PhD Student
    Funding Source:
    DIKTI
  • 2005
    Australian Partnership Scholarships
    Role:
    Master Student
    Funding Source:
    Australian Agency for International Development