Dr. Suryana completed his Ph.D. degree at the School of Culture, History, and Language, Australian National University in 2018. He also holds MA in Public Policy from ANU and obtained BA in Political Science from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. Currently, he is a Visiting Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. Before coming to UIII, Dr. Suryana taught at the School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP), Indonesia (2019-2020), and Swiss German University, Indonesia (2009-2019). He also worked as a consultant at USAID, Search for Common, the Indonesian Ministry of Bureaucracy and Administrative Reform, and the Jakarta Provincial Government between 2018 and 2020. Dr. Suryana is the author of The State and Religious Violence in Indonesia: Minority Faiths and Vigilantism (Routledge, 2020). His works have also appeared in Asian Studies Review and Southeast Asia Research.
