Jafar Suryomenggolo

Education

Ph.D., Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 2010.

Bachelor of Law (Sarjana Hukum), University of Indonesia, 2000.

Publications

• Okamoto Masaaki & Jafar Suryomenggolo (eds.). 2022. Indonesia at the Crossroads: Transformation and Challenges. Tokyo/ Boston: Trans Pacific Press. https://transpacificpress.com/products/indonesia-at-the-crossroad?variant=40369469653077
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2021. Fearless Speech in Indonesian Women’s Writing: Working- class Feminism from the Global South. Maryland/ London: Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793650542/Fearless-Speech-in-Indonesian- Women%E2%80%99s-Writing-Working-Class-Feminism-from-the-Global-South
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2021. Review Article: Home Sweet Home? Recent Studies of Chinese Indonesians. Bandung, Journal of the Global South 8 (1): 45-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/21983534-08010003
• Khoo Boo Teik & Jafar Suryomenggolo (eds.). 2020. States and Societies in Motion: Essays in Honour of Takashi Shiraishi. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Press. https://www.niaspress.dk/book/states-and-societies-in-motion/
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2020. Review of Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste by D. Kammen & J. Chen. Southeast Asian Studies 9 (3): 483-485. https://englishkyoto-seas.org/wp-content/uploads/SEAS0903_BR_Suryomenggolo.pdf
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2019. At a moment's notice: Indonesian maids write on their lives abroad. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Press.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2019.Democratization and Religious NGOs in Indonesia. In Middle Class, Civil Society and Democracy in Asia, edited by Michael Hsiao, pp. 119-145. Oxon: Routledge.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2019. Review of The development of Malaysian capitalism: from British rule to the present day, by Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 24(2): 328-329.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar (ed.). 2018. Rereading Leftist Writings from Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian Studies 7 (1).
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2018. The making of a new social contract: labor law in Indonesia after Reformasi. The Southeast Asian Review 28 (2): 85-117.
• Lopez, Mario and Jafar Suryomenggolo (eds.). 2018. Environmental Resources Use and Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Tropical Ecosystems in Transition. Singapore: Springer.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2018. Review of The Malayan Communist Party as recorded in the Comintern files, by Fujio Hara. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 6(1): 133-135.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar (ed.). 2017. “Political Assassination in Southeast Asia.” Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia 21
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2015. Politik perburuhan era Demokrasi Liberal 1950-an (Labor politics in the 1950s). Tangerang: Marjin Kiri (in Indonesian).
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2015. “Kisah cinta Sampaguita.” Majalah Historia 2 (22): 80-83 (in Indonesian).
• Lopez, Mario and Jafar Suryomenggolo (eds.). 2014. Rethinking democratic practices in Southeast Asia. Asian Politics and Policy 6 (4).
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar (ed.). 2014. Worker activism after Reformasi 1998: a new phase for Indonesian unions? Hong Kong: Asia Monitor Resource Centre.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2014. Review of Oral History in Southeast Asia: memories and fragments, edited by Kah Seng Loh, Stephen Dobbs, and Ernest Koh. Southeast Asian Studies 3(1): 230-232.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2013. Organising under the revolution: unions and the state in Java, 1945-48. Singapore/Kyoto: NUS Press.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2012. Factory employment, female workers' activism, and authoritarianism in Indonesia: reading Ida Irianti's pembelaan. Critical Asian Studies 44 (4): 597-626.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2012. Building workers solidarity in Hong Kong: Indonesian overseas domestic workers and their literary narratives. East Asian Studies 31 (2): 191-221.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2012. Review of Queer Bangkok: 21st century market, media, and rights, edited by Peter Jackson. Southeast Asian Studies 1(2): 341-345.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2011. Defining “Indonesia” from the margins: working class autobiography as part of the nation’s collective memory. Indonesia and the Malay World 39 (114): 221-243.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2011. Workers control in Java, Indonesia, 1945-1946. In Ours to Manage and Own: Worker control from the Commune to the Present, edited by Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness, pp. 210-227. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2009. Labour law without ‘rights’ in Indonesia: the making of Undang Undang Kerdja 1948. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 25 (4): 357-378.
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2009. Sejengkal menjadi sehasta: THR dalam dinamika hukum dan gerakan buruh Indonesia. In Hukum yang bergerak: tinjauan antropolog hukum, edited by Sulistyowati Irianto, pp. 197-218. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia (in Indonesian).
• Suryomenggolo, Jafar. 2008. Labour, politics and the law: a legal-political analysis of labour law reform program. Labour and Management in Development, vol. 9.