M.Sc. student in International Political Economy at Nanyang Technological University (RSIS). I research Southeast Asia, development, and political economy, and write for both academic and public audiences.

Peer-reviewed articles

• “Dutch Liberalism’s Free in the Double Sense: Colonial Capitalism, Private Property, and the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Java.” Historical Materialism, forthcoming.
• “The Crown of A Man: Muslim Skullcaps, Modernity, and Belonging in the Nineteenth-Twentieth-Century Indian Ocean World.” Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, Mar. 2025, pp. 103–26. DOI

Under review

• “Zaman Berubah in Sentani: Memories of Christianization, Modernization, and the Erasure of Material Culture in Northeast West Papua.” Under review.
• “Kuliah Kerja Nyata: Student Volunteerism as Developmentalist Social Reproduction in Indonesia.” Under review.

Papers in progress

• “The Spectre of Adatrecht: Orientalism Legacies in Indonesian Land Struggles.” Paper in progress.

Conference

• “Kuliah Kerja Nyata: Student Volunteerism as Developmentalist Discursive Regime in Post-Independent Indonesia.” ASEAS 2025

• “Trump dan Pemodal: Komite Kapitalis Amerika Serikat dan Kepentingannya” Jurno.id, 22 August 2025.
• “Dari Ladang ke Negara: Mengapa Reformasi Agraria Indonesia Tertinggal dari Vietnam dan China” Jurno.id, 24 June 2025.
• “Sritex Bangkrut di Tengah Deindustrialisasi dan Elite Indonesia yang Gagah-gagahan AI” Jurno.id, 4 April 2025.
• “USAID: Menabur Benih dan Meraup Kekuatan Melalui Pembangunan dan Bantuan” Jurno.id, 28 March 2025.
• “Constructing Inequality: Unequal Development in North Jakarta” Modern Diplomacy, 9 January 2025.
• “Indifference to the Past: Indonesian Parliament on Extractive Power” Modern Diplomacy, 23 August 2024.
• “Indonesian New Capital: Fantastical Dream, Low Budget” Modern Diplomacy, 26 July 2024.
• “Haiti: Nation without State” Modern Diplomacy, 7 July 2024.
• “Tugu Tapal Batas Yogyakarta dan Surakarta: Simbol Terpecahnya Jawa” Tirto.id, 6 September 2018.