Foreign research permit reforms: changes to the role of Indonesian counterparts risk proving counterproductive

Long, Nicholas J. ORCID: 0000-0002-4088-1661 (2023) Foreign research permit reforms: changes to the role of Indonesian counterparts risk proving counterproductive. Inside Indonesia. ISSN 0814-1185

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Pak Iwan was one of my oldest friends in Indonesia. A politics lecturer in a small, private higher education institution in the Riau Islands, I had first met him as a PhD student. We had since shared many good times, from long chats about politics, religion, and the self, to a handbag hunt when he came to London and wanted to buy gifts for his wife. He had been my counterpart during my postdoctoral research, a collaboration that had seen me delivering guest lectures, graduation speeches, running-capacity building workshops and even launching my book. For me, it was a no-brainer that, when I returned to Indonesia, I would once again team up with Pak Iwan in order to build on those existing links and relationships. But as I have since discovered, Indonesia’s latest arrangements for foreign researchers are putting relations with counterparts under novel forms of pressure – straining them, and sometimes altering them altogether.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.insideindonesia.org/foreign-research-p...
Additional Information:	© 2023 Indonesian Resources and Information Program (IRIP) 1983 - 2022.
Divisions:	Anthropology
Date Deposited:	03 May 2024 13:12
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 11:24
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122898

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