Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun

Rafiqa is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia. She is also an associate at Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam, and Society (CILIS), Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Rafiqa is the author of "Law and Politics of Blasphemy in Indonesia: The Sacred, the State and the Ballot Box" (Routledge, 2026).

She is currently the 2025-26 Mellon/Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Fellow. She is also a senior researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of Law and Economics (CIRCLE) at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia. Her research interests include law and religion, law and politics, Indonesia’s legal reform and academic freedom.

Rafiqa was an Asia Study Grants scholar of the National Library of Australia (in residence from July to August 2024). She was also a recipient of the 2021 Australia Awards Hadi Soesastro Prize from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).