Ken M.P. Setiawan

Dr Ken M.P. Setiawan is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies and a Deputy Director (Diversity and Inclusion) at the Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts. She is also an Associate at the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) at the Melbourne Law School. Ken's research interests include globalisation and human rights, historical violence and transitional justice, as well as gender and civil society. She has widely published on the politics of human rights in Indonesia, including in journals such as the Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, Journal of Contemporary Asia and Human Rights Quarterly. She is co-author of Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges and Democratic Decline (Routledge, 2022) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Southeast Asia (Routledge,2025) and Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality (ANU Press, 2025).