Direktur Eksekutif

Dr. Dominggus Elcid Li

Biografi:  Dr. Dominggus Elcid Li menjabat sebagai Direktur Eksekutif IRGSC sejak 2013, sebuah lembaga think-tank Indonesia yang berbasis di Kupang, Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur. Penelitiannya membahas korelasi antara komunitas subsisten dan perdagangan manusia. Penelitiannya berfokus pada sosiologi politik, dengan menaruh relasi dan hubungannya dengan komunitas sebagai objek fokus dengan melihat institusi yang tercemar dan the fade away of the state. Dia juga menyelidiki isu-isu masyarakat subsisten, khususnya kondisi masyarakat miskin perkotaan karena mereka bermigrasi dari daerah pedesaan Timor Barat. Dengan menggunakan riset aksi, ia juga mengembangkan beberapa gerakan perkotaan antara lain gerakan anti-perdagangan manusia (2014-2015), demokrasi partisipatif perkotaan (2016), dan ia juga mengembangkan laboratorium biomolekuler rakyat untuk mengatasi masalah yang dihadapi masyarakat selama pandemi COVID- 19 (2020). Dia lulus pada 2013 dengan gelar PhD di bidang Sosiologi dari Universitas Birmingham.

Karya Terpilih:

Li, D.E. (2020): Children Trafficking in Indonesia: the Defeat of Subsistent Mode of Production from Market Penetration in West Timor. Jurnal Perempuan, September, 2020.

Li, D.E. (2020): Indonesian Social Justice Index. Book, second author. Jakarta, August 2020.

Li, D.E. (2020): Republic and Social Injustice: The Tragedy of the Illiterate in Indonesia. Prisma, Vol.39.

Li, D.E. Ed. (2019): Water Problem Among the Poors on the Border Area of Indonesia and Timor Leste. Book, IRGSC.

Li, D.E. (2018): Globalisation, the Role of State, and the Rule of Law Crisis: Human Trafficking in the Eastern Part of Indonesia. Book Chapter, ISEAS, 243-264.

Li, D.E. (2015): Indigenous Land, Global Capitalism, and Church Vision. In: Theology of Land, Makassar. Book Chapter, 227-238.

Li, D.E./Paul. S./Bernadetha R./Wetangterah L. (2017): Human Trafficking and Corruption in Post Suharto Period ‘within’ Indonesian Border. IRGSC, Working Paper, Kupang.

Lassa, J./Li, D.E. (2015): Understanding Social Exclusion in Indonesia. Asia Foundation. Link to publication.

Lassa, J./Li, D.E. (2015): NGO Networks and the Future of NGO Sustainability in Indonesia, NSSC. National NGO Study and Service Centre. DFAT. Link to publication. 

Li, D.E. (2013). Silent Suffering, Historical sociology analysis of the East Timorese in Indonesia after 1999. University of Birmingham, PhD Thesis. https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/5184/1/Li14PhD.pdf

Posisi Terdahulu :

• Rekan Peneliti Indonesia, ASH Center, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Universitas Harvard (2014-2015)
• Rekan Ford Foundation di Universitas Birmingham, Inggris Raya (2006-2008)
• Anggota Insititut Titian Perdamaian
• Kontributor untuk TV7, Metro TV di Provinsi NTT, Indonesia (2004-2005)

Penghargaan :

• Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Program
• Beasiswa Universitas 21 (2009)
• Anggota Ford Foundation (2006-2009)
• ITP (Institut Titian Perdamaian) Fellowship (2004)

Keanggotaan dan Jaringan :

• Forum Academia NTT
• Sekolah Perbedaan Nusantara
• Institut Titian Perdamaian (ITP)
• CEDAR (Community Engage with Difference and Religion)
• Global Sociology (Indonesia)
• Indonesia Social Justice Network (ISJN)

Lead Researcher

John Petrus Talan

Biography:  For the past two decades, Indonesia as well as global trend, has been experiencing rapid growth of urban transformation. The transformation of cities is dominantly driven by the market and the planning system is not able to become a rational element that controls so that this transformation is beneficial for all of cities inhabitants. Urban transformation is very close to market anarchy and powerless urban citizens; the urban poor, urban subsistence, workers, MSME actors, inter-regional immigrants, do not benefit from urban transformation and they are increasingly immersed in exploitative capitalistic relations. Currently his research interest is of developing innovative strategies towards spatial planning as a rational element to achieve urban sustainability.

Selected Publication(s):

• Scrutinizing Social Inequality in the Production of Space in Indonesia: the case of water supply in Jakarta (in Indonesian). In Li & Sujarwoto (Eds.). Social Inequality, Capitalism and Democracy; notes from around Indonesia in 2021 (pp. 97 -137). Indonesia Social Justice Network. 2019
• Urban Water Inequality Case of Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. In 40 Perspectives on Urban
• Sustainability from Around the Globe; Country replies compilation. GCSMUS. Berlin. 2019
• KRuHA Working Paper (Co-Author): In Search of Citizenship in Indonesia; Omnibus Law on Job Creation Bill (published in Indonesian). Koalisi Rakyat untuk Hak Atas Air (KRuHA) – People’s Coalition for the Right to Water. Jakarta, 2020

Areas of:

• Spatial planning
• Urban studies
• Social innovation
• Climate change
• Disaster studies
• Technology adaptation and innovation studies
• Water conflicts
• Anthropology of cash transfer
• Science and technology studies (STS)

Current position(s)

• Lead Researcher, IRGSC, Kupang

Membership and Networks:

• GCSMUS – TU Berlin, Germany

Peneliti

Yohanes Victor Lasi Usbobo

Biografi: Yohanes Victor Lasi Usbobo merupakan aktivis dan peneliti sosial yang berdomisili di Kota Kupang. Dirinya telah tergabung dalam aktivis sejak masa kuliah dan setelah masa kuliah dirinya bekerja dengan lembaga swadaya masyarakat lokal, nasional, dan internasional terkait pencegahan konflik, membangun perdamaian, dan pemberdayaan isu masyarakat.

Dirinya telah berpartisipasi dalam Asian Professional Youth Exchange Program yang di sponsori oleh Fredskorpset (Norek) Norwegia dan di tempatkan di Yayasan Shalom, Myanmar. Dirinya telah melakukan perjalanan di beberapa negara untuk menyediakan pelatihan terkait Sistem Peringatan Dini konflik dan Sistem Respons Dini dimana bertemu dengan pemimpin-pemimpin militer di beberapa kelompok etnis. Pada 2013, dirinya menerima beasiswa penuh dari pemerintah Australia dan menyelesaikan pascasarjana di prodi International Development, Universitas Flinder, Australia Selatan. Setelah menempuh studinya, dirinya bergabung dengan IRGSC dan terlibat dalam beberapa penelitian dan evaluasi yang di lakukan oleh IRGSC. Dirinya tertarik pada isu pencegahan konflik dan pembangunan perdamaian, migrasi aman, perdagangan manusia, masyarakat adat, studi wanita, dan studi perbatasan. Penelitian terakhirnya membahas tentang analisis ekonomi-politik di Kabupaten Belu yang berkolaborasi dengan Yayasan Pikul dan USAID-ERAT.

Bidang Keahilian :

• Pencegahan dan resolusi konflik
• Masyarakat adat
• Sistem peringatan dini
• Membangun Perdamaian
• Analisis politik-ekonomi

Posisi Jabatan Terkini :

• Peneliti Pemimpin, IRGSC, Kupang

Keanggotaan dan Jaringan :

• Forum Academia NTT

Associate Researcher

Joseph Robert Daniel

Biography: Joseph Robert Daniel joined IRGSC since 2014 as associate researcher, one year after he obtained a master degree in marketing management at Satya Wacana Christian University. His research interest falls broadly within the intersections between consumption as a symbolic activity, marketing practices, and social inequality, which he explores using a variety of interpretive research techniques. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Management Studies at the University of Liverpool, funded by LPDP. His PhD research examines the experiences of working-class consumers in pursuing higher education in Indonesia.

Selected Works

Seminars/Talks/Conferences

• Daniel, Joseph R. (2022) Revisiting ‘Access’ in Consumer Identity Projects: The Experiences of Disadvantaged Consumers pursuing Higher Education, Academy of Marketing Conference 2022
• Daniel, Joseph R., Parsons, E., McGouran, C., (2022) Higher Education and The Making of Empowered Market Subjects, Annual Macromarketing Global Conference 2022.
• Daniel, Joseph R., Parsons, E., McGouran C., (2022) Understanding Disadvantaged Consumers’ Reflexive Identity Projects: The Life Stories of Bidikmisi Recipients in Indonesia, The 11th EIASM Interpretive Consumer Research Workshop.
• Daniel, Joseph R., (2021) Dimensi-dimensi Eksklusi Pasar, Indonesian Scholar Forum (ISF) Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia United Kingdom.
• Daniel, Joseph R., Parsons, E., McGouran, C., (2021) Problematising the discourses of consumer (dis)empowerment through Higher Education: A Case of Indonesia, Academy of Marketing Conference 2021.
• Daniel, Joseph R., (2020) Praktik-praktik Pemasaran dan Ketimpangan Sosial: Adakah Hubungannya?, Bincang Sore Seputar Ekonomi, Universitas Nusa Cendana
• Daniel, Joseph R., Parsons, E., McGouran, C., (2020) Exploring the Dialectics of Marketplace Exclusion:  A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda, Annual Macromarketing Conference 2020.
• Kiling, Indra Y., Li, Dominggus E., Rahman, A., Daniel, Joseph R., Boboy, J., (2017) Social Rehabilitation in Human Trafficking: A Reflection on Data of Human Trafficking in East Nusa Tenggara, The 36th Indonesia Forum Postgraduate Roundtable.
• Kiling, Indra Y.,  Rahman, A., Li, Dominggus E., Daniel, Joseph R., Boboy, J., (2017) Parents and Children in Human Trafficking: Data Analysis of Human Trafficking in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia Council Open Conference.
• Daniel, Joseph R., (2015) Students’ Pride in Higher Education Service Context: A Marketing Perspective, The 19th Asian Forum on Business Education (AFBE) Conference, November 2015.

  Media Articles

• The need for critical consumers in Indonesia’s ongoing consumer revolution, The Jakarta Post
• Gaya hidup konsumtif akibat majunya perekonomian Indonesia semakin menyisihkan orang miskin, The Conversation Indonesia
• Pembelajaran di balik aksi penjarahan pasca gempa, The Conversation Indonesia
• The Role of Consumption in Post-Disaster Recovery: A Literature Review and Practical Insights, IRGSC Working Paper Series
• A look at vintage consumption as psychological defense, sign of societal problem, The Jakarta Post
• What makes us proud to consume a product?, The Jakarta Post
• Alkohol dan Konsumsi Kompulsif, Pos Kupang
• Kebanggaan dalam Konsumsi, Pos Kupang
• Membendung Konsumsi Berita Sesat, Pos Kupang

Areas of expertise:

• Consumption
• Marketing

Current position(s)

• Associate Researcher, IRGSC

Prizes and Awards:

• LPDP Master Thesis Scholarship 2013
• LPDP Doctoral Scholarship 2019

 Membership and Networks:

• Academy of Marketing
• Macromarketing Society
• Indonesian Marketing Academy
• Doctoral Epistemic of Indonesian in the UK.

Peneliti Lapangan

Pelipus Libu Heo

Biografi: Lahir dan besar di pulau kecil Raijua telah memberinya pengalaman langsung tentang ekonomi pesisir sebagai jantung mata pencaharian pulau kecil. Dengan latar belakang pendidikan di Perikanan dan Pengelolaan Wilayah Pesisir, ia memfokuskan penelitiannya pada mata pencaharian pesisir berkelanjutan atau ekonomi biru, terutama dalam produksi rumput laut dan konservasi wilayah pesisir. Ia menyadari bahwa pembangunan wilayah pesisir haruslah lintas disiplin karena mata pencaharian pesisir juga berhubungan dengan kekuasaan dan penguasaan aset. Ia juga tertarik pada analisis politik-ekonomi untuk melengkapi studi wilayah pesisirnya untuk memahami bagaimana aspek-aspek ekonomi-politik mengganggu atau bahkan membentuk praktik pengelolaan pesisir kita saat ini.

Bidang Keahilian :

Perikanan dan pengelolaan wilayah pesisir

Tata kelola risiko iklim

Analisis Ekonomi-Politik

Jurnalisme Untuk Perubahan

Pembangunan berkelanjutan

Wilayah Pedesaan

Masyarakat Adat

Posisi Jabatan Terkini :

• Peneliti Muda
• Asisten Peneliti PEA TAF USAID Kabupaten Sabu Raijua
• Asisten Manajer Proyek Implementasi SIGAP di Pulau Sawu, kemitraan YKAN dengan IRGSC 

Visiting Researcher

Dr. Gde Dwitya Arief Metera

Biography: Dr. Metera is an visiting researcher at IRGSC since 2022. His research investigates the logic underpinning government policies on religious issues and its consequences on secularism, democracy, and religious freedom. His most recent research looks at the role of the state policies on religion in the declining quality of Indonesian democracy.

Selected works:

• Metera, GDA (2017), Taking Religion More Seriously: Beyond Secular Assumption in Studying Religion and Politics in Indonesia, Jurnal Penelitian Politik, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 277-284.
• Metera, GDA (2015),Local Politics and the Formation of Sub-National Imagined Communities: the Cases of Tabanan Lovers and Buleleng Jengah, Kawalu, Vol.2, No.1, pp.1-15.
• Metera, GDA (2015), Vision Comes True: Rabindranath Tagore and Balinese Contemporary Religious Identity, in Tripathi & Chakravarthy (eds), Tagore the Eternal Seeker: Footprints of a World Traveller, pp. 308-319, New Delhi: Indian Council of World Affairs & Vij Books.
  Metera, GDA (2013), Democratic Transition and the Changing Pattern of State-Religion Relations in Indonesia: a Study of Institutional Change at the Subnational Level, EDGS Working Papers No. 6.
  Metera, GDA (2011), Workplace and Home: Understanding Sai Baba in Bali as an Urban Phenomenon, Jurnal Kajian Bali Vol. 1 (2), pp.76-98,

Areas of expertise:

• Democratization
• Religion and Law
• Research Design & Methodology

Current position(s)

• Visiting research fellow, COMPOSE – UIII, Jakarta
• Affiliated researcher, IRGSC, Kupang

Past position(s)

• Postdoctoral research fellow, EDGS, Buffett Institute, Northwestern University (2021-2022)
• Visiting lecturer, American Studies Program MA & PhD, Gadjah Mada University (2021-2022)
• Non-resident research fellow, ICLRS, BYU Law School (2019-2020)

Prizes and Awards:

• Arryman Scholarship (2012-2019)

Membership and Networks:

• American Political Science Association (APSA)

Peneliti Lapangan

Pelipus Pilo Haga

Bidang Keahilian :

Agribisnis

Posisi Jabatan Terkini : Koordinator Lapangan untuk Innovative Seedling and Breeding for Women’s Empowerment in Savu, kemitraan AVI dan IRGSC

Peneliti Lapangan

Yonatan Wadu

Peneliti Lapangan

Ria Udju

Biografi:  Ria Udju memfokuskan studinya pada pemberdayaan perempuan di Sabu melalui pendidikan berbasis kecakapan hidup. Ia juga senang menulis tentang kenangan kolektif perempuan tentang kearifan lokal yang diturunkan dari generasi ke generasi melalui metode lisan. Selain minat penelitiannya tentang pemberdayaan perempuan, ia juga mengkhususkan diri dalam pengelolaan dan analisis data kuantitatif.

Bidang Keahilian :

Pendidikan untuk pembangunan berkelanjutan

Pemberdayaan Perempuan

Masyarakat Adat dan Kearifan Lokal

Posisi Jabatan Terkini :

• Peneliti Lapangan
• Fasilitator Desa Implementasi SIGAP di Pulau Sabu, Kerjasama YKAN-IRGSC

Peneliti Lapangan

Priska Christine Mystika Manek

Priska dalam penelitian tentang perdagangan manusia dan aktif dalam advokasi serta kampanye terkait isu-isu hak asasi manusia dengan IRGSC.

Peneliti Lapangan

Stevie Tualaka

Biografi: Sebagai seorang patologi tanaman, Stevie memfokuskan studinya pada interaksi patogen tanaman, aspek molekuler patogenisitas dan diagnosis penyakit tanaman. Ia juga tertarik mempelajari metode pengendalian hama dan penyakit tanaman yang ramah lingkungan. Ia memiliki pengalaman mengidentifikasi hama dan penyakit pada tanaman apel dan jeruk di Kabupaten Timor Tengah Selatan, dan penggunaan agens hayati seperti Trichoderma sp. untuk meningkatkan ketahanan tanaman.

Saat ini, selain minat studi perlindungan tanaman, Ia juga fokus pada isu ketersediaan bibit rumput laut di Pulau Sabu, akibat dari penurunan kualitas genetik, dengan mencoba menerapkan metode seleksi genetik rumput laut melalui spora rumput laut.

Bidang Keahilian :

Patologi Tanaman

Perlindungan Tanaman

Biomolekuler

Bioteknologi

Posisi Jabatan Terkini :

• Peneliti Muda
• Koordinator Lapangan Program Innovative Seedling and Breeding for Women’s Empowerment in Savu, kemitraan AVI dengan IRGSC
• Fasillitator Lapangan Proyek Implementasi SIGAP di Pulau Sawu, kemitraan YKAN dengan IRGSC 

Peneliti Lapangan

Rivan Rade Rihi

Biografi:  Sebagai pengusaha pertanian, ia bertujuan untuk mengembangkan model bisnis yang dapat membantu perdagangan yang adil dalam rantai pasokan komoditas utama di Sabu (yaitu sopi dan rumput laut). Dia bertujuan untuk memanfaatkan latar belakang akuntansi bisnisnya untuk membantu memahami lebih baik tentang tantangan yang dihadapi oleh UKM di Sabu agar memiliki rantai nilai yang lebih efisien dan adil. Ia juga tertarik untuk mempelajari aturan main dalam komunitasnya (asli), untuk mengadvokasi pembangunan ekonomi yang lebih partisipatif dan inklusif di Pulau Sabu.

Bidang Keahilian :

Manajemen Strategis UKM

Masyarakat Adat dan Kearifan Lokal

Pertanian Lahan Kering

Posisi Jabatan Terkini :

• Peneliti Muda
• Fasilitator Lapangan pada Implementasi SIGAP di Pulau Sabu, Kerjasama YKAN-IRGSC

Junior Researcher

Isiodorus Hardiman Milik

Biography:  Isiodorus Hardiman Milik is a junior researcher at IRGSC since 2015. Engaged in research on human trafficking and active in advocacy and campaigning on human rights issues. His writings have been published in print newspapers, Pos Kupang, Victory News and Timor Express and several other online portals.

Selected works:

• Ardy Milik, ‘https://www.lekontt.com/2020/10/mengurai-peran-negara-dalam-menciptakan.html’ LekoNTT.com, 30 May 2020
• Ardy Milik, https://www.lekontt.com/2022/04/membaca-perilaku-politik-penguasa. LekoNTT.com 27 April 2022
• Ardy Milik, https://www.lekontt.com/2022/06/tanah-tanah-yang-terampas.html” Leko.NTT.com 22 Juni 2022

Areas of :

• Human Trafficking
• Narrative Journalism
• Philosophy Science

Current position(s)

• Junior Researcher, IRGSC, Kupang
• Humanitarian Solidarity Network Volunteers, NTT

Membership and Networks:

• Alumni of Pantau Foundation Narrative Journalism Class, 2019

Junior Researcher

Nguru Kolo

Biography: Public Administration, especially on the accountability and transparency, is on his research and advocacy interest. Furthermore, his first-hand experience on coastal livelihood especially on seaweed farming, has certainly put his research interest specifically in the field of participatory sustainable development for blue economy. Being born and raised as a part of indigenous community that is faced by constant conflict such as land-grabbing other inclusion issues has encouraged him to do more research on indigenous people, conflict and development.

Areas of expertise:

• Seaweed economy
• Public administration
• Indigenous community

Current position(s)

• Junior researcher
• Village facilitator for Implementation of SIGAP in Savu Island, YKAN