Dirk Tomsa

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About Dirk Tomsa

Dirk Tomsa is Associate Professor in Politics and Head of the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy. His main research interests focus on Indonesian and comparative Southeast Asian politics, especially in the areas of democratization and democratic decline, electoral and party politics, institutional change and environmental politics. He is the author of 'Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges and Democratic Decline'(with Ken Setiawan, Routledge 2022) and 'Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era'(Routledge, 2008), as well as two co-edited volumes and numerous book chapters on Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics. His articles have been published in a wide range of peer-reviewed academic journals including Political Research Quarterly, International Political Science Review, Contemporary Politics, Journal of East Asian Studies, South East Asia Research, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Bijdragen tot de taal, land-en volkenkunde and others. Dirk teaches Southeast Asian and Comparative Politics and can supervise PhD and Masters theses on all aspects of Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics.