Dr Rafiqa Qurrata A’yun is an honorary fellow at Melbourne Law School, an associate at the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS), the University of Melbourne. She is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia and a senior researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of Law and Economics (CIRCLE) at the Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia.

Rafiqa is the 2025-26 Mellon/Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Fellow. She was an Asia Study Grants scholar of the National Library of Australia (in residence from July to August 2024). She was also a recipient of the 2022 Biennial Postgraduate Conference Awards from the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) and the 2021 Australia Awards Hadi Soesastro Prize from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

Rafiqa is the author of Law and Politics of Blasphemy in Indonesia (Routledge, 2026). Her academic writings have been published in various academic journals, such as Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde (Brill-KITLV), Indonesia (Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University), Australian Journal of Asian Law (Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School), Third World Quarterly, Melbourne Asia Review, Prisma, and Indonesia Law Review. Additionally, her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in several media outlets, including Indonesia at Melbourne, The Conversation, Inside Indonesia, Project Multatuli, and The Jakarta Post.

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