Sherly Haristya

Sherly is a digital governance researcher and lecturer. Her research has been informing and bridging the global and national debates and stakeholder groups on digital governance-related issues. She consults and conducts research projects with various national (Indonesia) and international partners. She also actively engages with policymakers, the press, and larger communities.

She earned her PhD in Communication Studies from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2019. She is the recipient of the 2020 Internet Histories' Early Career Researcher Award for her article "The Efficacy of Civil Society in Global Internet Governance".

Some of her research projects:
2025: "Empowering Citizens: Toward Sustainable Fact-Checking in East and Southeast Asia (in collaboration with Keio University, Japan); digital governance landscape in Indonesia (consulting for Open Government Partnership)
2024: "The Global Context of Social Media Governance" (in collaboration with Safer Internet Lab (SAIL) of CSIS Indonesia)
2023: "Southeast Asian Civil Society and COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies: Breaking Down Barriers to Multi-stakeholder Collaboration" (in collaboration with SAFEnet and the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL))
2022: "Content Moderation and Local Stakeholders in Indonesia" (in collaboration with ARTICLE 19, UNESCO, and the European Union)
2019-2021: Indonesia chapter in the Freedom On The Net (FOTN) report
2020: "The Comparison of Indonesia’s Personal Data Protection Bill with Europe’s Convention 108+ and General Data Protection Regulation" (in collaboration with Tifa Foundation)