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Personal profile
Biography
My interest in Indonesian politics and Islam was awakened as an undergraduate at Monash University and they have remained the focus of my academic and professional activity since then. My PhD thesis was a study of the traditionalist Muslim party, Nahdlatul Ulama. More recently, I have examined terrorism, transnational Islamist movements and religious commodification in Indonesia, as well as broader trends in contemporary Islamic politics in Southeast Asia.
Career highlights
Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to tertiary education and Australia-Indonesia relations (2021); Head of the Department of Political and Social Change, ANU (2013-2018); Chair of the Australia-Indonesia Institute within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2016-present); Director of the Partnership in Islamic Education Scholarships (PIES) Program (2012-present); Visiting Professor in Indonesian Politics at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC (2003); Lady Davis Trust Visiting Professor In Asian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2019-2020); Indonesia analyst with the Australian Government (1997-1999); and consultant on Indonesian civil society, election and Islamic education programs.
Research interests
Indonesian politics, modern Islamic political history, democratisation and Islamism, and jihadist ideology and strategy.
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- Comparative Government and Politics
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
- Asian History
- Islamic Studies
- Religion and Society
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Projects
- 7 Finished
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Supporting the rules-based order in Southeast Asia (SEARBO)
Hutchcroft, P., Aspinall, E., Cheesman, N., Dressel, B., Erskine, T., Farrelly, N., Fealy, G., Kenny, P., Mietzner, M., Tapsell, R., Travouillon, K. & White, S.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
8/11/18 → 15/10/21
Project: Research
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Assessing and Advancing Civil Society CVE Efforts in Southeast Asia
Ingram, H., Davies, M., Fealy, G. & Rood, S.
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
5/10/17 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Indonesia Project Phase IV
Lewis, B., Aspinall, E., Dong, X., Fealy, G., Jotzo, F., McCarthy, J., Mietzner, M., Patunru, A., Shrestha, R., Utomo, A. & van der Eng, P.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
17/10/16 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Partnership in Islamic Education Scholarships - Phase III (PIES)
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID
15/08/13 → 30/09/18
Project: Research
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Indonesia Project Phase III
Lewis, B., Aspinall, E., Fealy, G., Hill, H., Hill, H., Jotzo, F., McCarthy, J., Mietzner, M., Sparrow, R., Suryadarma, D. & Suryadarma, D.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID
2/07/12 → 30/06/17
Project: Research
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Counterterrorism, Civil Society Organisations and Peacebuilding: The Role of Non-State Actors in Deradicalisation in Bima, Indonesia
Fealy, G. & Sila, M. A., 2022, In: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 23, 1, p. 97-117Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Accommodating Indonesia's Islamist Fringe: The Case for a More Inclusive Electoral System
Fealy, G., 2020, In: Indonesian Journal of Political Research. 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Jokowi in the Covid Era: Repressive Pluralism, Dynasticism and the Over-Bearing State
Fealy, G., 2020, In: Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. 56, 3, p. 1-24Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Apocalyptic Thought, Conspiracism and Jihad in Indonesia
Fealy, G., 2019, In: Contemporary Southeast Asia. 41, 1, p. 63-85Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Contentious Belonging The place of Minorities in Indonesia
Fealy, G. & Ricci, R., 2019, 1st ed. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing. 282 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book