Suraya Abdulwahab Afiff, M.A., Ph.D.

Suraya Abdulwahab Afiff, Ph.D., is an environmental anthropologist who has long focused on issues of political ecology, agrarian change, indigenous peoples’ rights, and environmental policy. She is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), University of Indonesia (UI), a senior researcher at the Asia Research Centre, and actively involved in civil society organizations such as WALHI. As an academic who also bridges the world of activism, Suraya conducts extensive international collaborative research highlighting power relations in natural resource management and indigenous peoples’ land rights. Her research combines anthropology, environmental studies, and policy analysis to understand the political impacts of development and agrarian dynamics in Indonesia. Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Indonesian Anthropological Association (AAI) and leads the Cluster for Living Space and Socio-Political Transformation. Through her work and teaching, Suraya promotes a critical approach that places ecological issues, indigenous peoples’ rights, and climate change as central agendas in contemporary Indonesian anthropology.