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. Currently, he is also a Secretary General of ALMI, Indonesian Young Academy of Science. 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.
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).
Currently, he is a member of the scientific committee at ALTERSEA – Observatory of Political Alternatives in Southeast Asia, Centre Asie du Sud-Est, EHESS. 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.
His latest research projects are related to ‘free expression, the rise of authoritarianism and autocratic legalism in Southeast Asian context.’ Before pandemic covid, he used to facilitate human rights education for university lecturers in Myanmar in 2019 and 2020, related to academic freedom and freedom of expression.