BIOGRAPHY
Herlambang Perdana Wiratraman is an associate professor and Director of the Research Center for Law and Social Justice (LSJ), at the Constitutional Law Department, Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada. He is a member of ALMI, Indonesian Young Academy of Science, of which used to be a Secretary General of ALMI (2022-2023). He earned master of arts in human rights and social development from Mahidol University, Thailand and PhD in Law from Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University Law School.
Since 2014, he has been actively collaborating with the Netherlands’ universities for academic research and legal education. The latest project was SLEEI, Strengthening Legal Education in Eastern Indonesia, 2019-2022. This has been conducted by a consortium of four law faculties in Eastern Indonesia (Ambon, Kupang, Waingapu, Mataram), two law faculties on Java (Gadjah Mada University and Jentera Law School), one in the Netherlands (VVI Leiden), and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT).
He was previously a visiting researcher or fellow at the Graduate School of International Development (GSID), Nagoya University (2015), Center for Asian Legal Studies NUS Law School (2017), Sidney Myer Asia Center, Faculty of Arts the University of Melbourne (2017), Vietnam National University Law School (2017), and Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (2018).
He is the founder and chair of the Indonesian Consortium for Human Rights Lecturers (SEPAHAM Indonesia), 2014-2017, and also Southeast Asian Human Rights Studies Network (SEAHRN). He has been initiating the establishment of a progressive alliance for academic freedom in Indonesia (KIKA), of which he is currently an advisory board member at this alliance. He used to facilitate human rights education for university lecturers in Myanmar in 2019 and 2020, related to academic freedom and freedom of expression, and participatory action legal research for revisiting structural legal aid and its movement, under Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), 2021-2024.