Professor Arief Budiman
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Foundation Professor of Indonesian Room 310 Tel: + 61 3 8344 5990 |
Background
Professor Arief Budiman joined The University of Melbourne in 1997 as the Head of Indonesian Program. He has a PhD from the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, USA, which he obtained in 1980. Before coming to Melbourne, Arief taught at The University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, and at Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia.
Research Interests
Arief's research interest has been in three fields: development studies in the Third World, theories of state, and woman studies. In the development studies he concentrates on how global capitalism has impacted development in poor countries, and what is the best strategy to deal with this. In the theories of the state, he is interested with the questions on who controls the state or is the state a neutral institution, and what is the role of the military in the Third World state? In woman studies, the main issue is to discuss the best arrangement in the society to make it possible for women and men to participate equally both in the domestic and public sectors. These theoretical questions have to be answered with empirical data from the studies of concrete societies.
At Melbourne Unniversity at present, Arief is teaching political economy of development in Indonesia and Asia, political Islam and the state in Indonesia, analysing Indonesia past and present, and Indonesian language.
Research in Progress
Radical Islam in Indonesia: Latent External Threats for Australia