PRESENT & PREVIOUS RESEARCH / ASSESSMENT STUDIES

Current Dissertation Research:
Dictating Landscapes, Mobile Societies and Lethargic States: A Social History of Kenyah Dayak Transnational Mobility on the East Kalimantan - Sarawak Borderlands (1901 – 2005)
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) - Kyoto University (under a Japanese Government JSPS/Monbusho Scholarship Grant)


October 2003
Visiting Researcher (JSPS /Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences) CORE University Research Project on Flows and Movements in Asia at the
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University, Japan

Jun 2002 – Mar 2003
Research on illegal migrants and ethnic networking in Sarawak, East Malaysia.
API (Asian Public Intellectuals) Recipient 2002-2003, Partner and Host Institutions: Institute for Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.

May – Sep 2003
Preliminary Ethnographies on the Dayak Murut Agabag and Meratus Bukit Buraq Mato Communities in East Kalimantan, Indonesia (For PUSLIT PRANATA UI, commissioned by the Ministry for Social Affairs, the Republic of Indonesia)

Jan 2001 – Apr 2002
Borderland Identities: A Case Study on the Batang Kanyau Iban Community in West Kalimantan. (individual research, self-funded)

Jul 2001 - Mar 2002
UNOPS Assessment on IFAD / ADB / IDB - Funded Rural Micro-Credit Programmes in North Sulawesi, West & Central Java, Bali, West & East Nusa Tenggara

Jun – Dec 2000
Spatial Assessment on Refugees and IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) in Indonesia. Designed preliminary IDP & Refugee databases for Indonesia adopted by UNHCR. (UN World Food Programme / UNDP Indonesia Programme)

Jan - Mar 2000
Food security assessment on Maluku Conflict IDPs on Buton island, Southeast Sulawesi (UN World Food Programme / UNDP Indonesia Programme)

Sep - Oct 1999
Preliminary frontline assessment on East Timorese Refugees in West Timor, East Nusa Tenggara (UN World Food Programme / UNHCR)

Sep – Oct 1997
Socio-Economic Study on Forest fires-affected Communities in Central Kalimantan (KONPHALINDO / Bakornas). Parts of the study are included in the UNDP publication Forest Fires in Indonesia (1998, UNDP Indonesia Programme)