German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Dr. Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir

Visiting Fellow

Kurzer Lebenslauf

Since 03/2025: Visiting Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
07/2022 – 07/2024: Subject Coordinator in Asian Studies and Indonesian Studies at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
03/2020 – 03/2025: Honorary Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
09/2019 – 01/2020: Research Fellow of the Australia Awards’ Hadi Soesastro Prize at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
07/2010 – 01/2024: Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, State University of Jakarta, Indonesia
Since 2009: Research Associate, LabSosio, Sociological Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Education: PhD in Political Science (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Aktuelle Forschung

Leftist politics
Democratisation in Indonesia and Southeast Asia
Civil society
Capitalist development
Authoritarian turn and illiberal legalism
Sociology of violence

Länder und Regionen

Southeast Asia
Indonesia

Dr. Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir

Visiting Fellow

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Critical Asian Studies | 2023

The Limit of Civil Society Activism in Indonesia: The Case of the Weakening of the KPK

This paper examines the limits of Indonesian civil society activism in advancing democratic politics. This activism, mainly by middle-class reformers, has not only failed to prevent democracy from being hijacked by illiberal interests but also contributed to justifying the deepening of political illiberalism.

Dr. Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir

Visiting Fellow

Australian Journal of Asian Law | 2022

Indonesia’s Illiberal Legalism amid Covid-19: Public Health Crisis as a Means of Accumulation

Under the framework of disorder that constitutes Indonesia’s illiberal political-legal system, the public health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic has become a means to the accumulation of wealth and power. This is evident from Indonesia’s messy handling of the outbreak, which continues to worsen the public health crisis.