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BBus Hons (NTU); MSc (RSIS, NTU), MA (NUS)
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Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts – Indonesia’s Islamic Charities: Plugging Gaps in Economic Relief
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Mr Jonathan Chen

Associate Research Fellow
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BBus Hons (NTU); MSc (RSIS, NTU), MA (NUS)
: [email protected]
: +65 6513 2039
: IDSS

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Biography

Chen Jieyang Jonathan is an Associate Research Fellow at the Indonesia Programme. He joined the Indonesia Programme in December 2012 after obtaining his M.Sc degree in International Relations in 2010 at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). In addition, he also has a Masters of Arts degree in Southeast Asia Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS). His undergraduate days were at the Nanyang Business School (NBS), graduating with honours in Business (Marketing). Prior to joining the Indonesia Programme, he worked in the Singapore Research Nexus in NUS doing translation and research work on Singapore. During his studies in RSIS and NUS, Jonathan has participated in several regional conferences representing Singapore including the Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange Students and Youth (2009), EUC-RSIS Summer Programme (June 2012) and the ASEAN Plus 3 Youth Symposium in Phnom Penh (October 2012). Jonathan has a good proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia – having attended an intensive language training course at Wisma Bahasa at Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has co-authored two working papers titled “Popular Mandate and the Coming-of-Age of Social Media’s Presence in Indonesian Politics Post-Reformasi” (with Adhi Priamarizki) and “Old Society, New Youths: An Overview of Youth and Popular Participation in Post-Reformasi Indonesia” (with Emirza Adi Syailendra). Together with Assoc Prof Leonard Sebastian and Emirza, Jonathan co-authored a monograph titled Pemuda Rising: Why Indonesia Should Pay Attention to its Youth in 2014. He is a co-author with Leonard Sebastian and Adhi Priamarizki of Indonesia Beyond Reformasi: Necessity and the ‘De-Centering” of Democracy, Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, no. 3 – 2014 (218), Carey School of Law, University of Maryland. His publications have appeared in The Diplomat, Jakarta Post, East Asia Forum, Eurasia Review as well as with Perth USAsia Centre.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Political Parties of Indonesia
  • State and Society in Indonesia
  • Indonesian Ethnic Chinese Community
  • Contemporary Issues of Timor-Leste
  • China-Indonesia Relations
  • Indonesia Foreign Policy

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RSIS Publications

    Monographs

    • MN29 | Pemuda Rising Why Indonesia Should Pay Attention to its Youth

      28 April, 2014

    Working Papers

    • WP269 | Old Society, New Youths: An Overview of Youth and Popular Participation in Post-Reformasi Indonesia

      05 March, 2014

    • WP268 | Popular Mandate and the Coming-of-Age of Social Media’s Presence in Indonesia Politics Post-Reformasi

      18 February, 2014

    Commentaries

    • Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts - Indonesia’s Islamic Charities: Plugging Gaps in Economic Relief

      19 June, 2020

    • Maintaining Harmony: Indonesia’s Inter-Religious Forum

      12 March, 2020

    • Assessing Jokowi’s First Term - ‘Jokowinomics’: Has It Worked?

      08 August, 2019

    • Indonesian Presidential Election 2019 - East Java: Deadheat in a Battleground Province

      27 March, 2019

    • Indonesian Presidential Election 2019 - Politics at the Periphery: The ‘Outer Island’ Phenomenon

      01 February, 2019

    • CO18107 | Indonesia’s 2018 Regional Elections - West Kalimantan: Identity Politics at the Forefront

      26 June, 2018

    • CO18098 | The East Java Gubernatorial Race: Dead Heat but Non-Controversial

      18 June, 2018

    • CO17161 | Indonesia-Singapore Relations: Between New Order and Reformasi Era

      06 September, 2017

    • CO16290 | Politics, Plurality and Inter-Group Relations - Jakarta’s 2017 Gubernatorial Elections: More Than Just Politics

      29 November, 2016

    • CO15273 | Simultaneous Local Elections in Indonesia: More Power for Incumbents?

      17 December, 2015

    • CO15026 | Jokowi’s Vessel Sinking Policy: A Question of Propriety

      10 February, 2015

    • CO14208 | MD3 Laws in Indonesia: Sword of Damocles over the Jokowi Presidency?

      21 October, 2014

    • CO14187 | Abolishing Indonesia’s Direct Local Elections: Missing the Forest for the Trees?

      23 September, 2014

    • CO14171 | Indonesia’s Presidential Dilemma: Can Jokowi Avoid the Accountability Trap?

      02 September, 2014

    • CO14131 | Indonesian Presidential Election 2014: Tipping Point?

      08 July, 2014

    • CO14075 | Aftermath of Indonesia’s Legislative Elections: Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth

      22 April, 2014

    • CO14045 | Simultaneous Elections in 2019: Strong Parliament, Weak Presidency?

      05 March, 2014

    • CO13173 | Labour Protests in Indonesia: Treading the Tightrope of Minimum Wage

      23 September, 2013

    • CO13162 | Indonesia's Democratic Evolution: Political Engineering Post-Reformasi

      30 August, 2013

    • CO13147 | Indonesia's Subsidies for Cash: Economics over Politics?

      07 August, 2013

    • CO13108 | Youth and the "Jokowi Effect": Strike while the Iron is Hot?

      17 June, 2013

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External Publications

Authored Books

  • Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste (with Douglas Kanmen). Singapore: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2019

Journal Articles

  • “Indonesia Beyond Reformasi : Necessity and the ‘De-Centering’ of Democracy” (with Leonard C. Sebastian, and Adhi Priamarizki) in Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, , 2014, 3, 2014.

Op-Eds

  • “One party’s lonely battle for minority voices in Indonesia”, The Conversation, 15 April 2019
  • Jokowi and Indonesian Democracy
  • Chen, Jonathan, and Emirza Adi Syailendra, “Jokowi and Indonesian Democracy,” The Diplomat, 11 April 2014 http://thediplomat.com/2014/04/jokowi-and-indonesian-democracy/
  • Chen, Jonathan, “Does Size Matter in Indonesia’s Party System?” East Asia Forum, 5 April 2014./ http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2014/04/05/does-size-matter-in-indonesias-party-system/
  • Chen, Jonathan and Adhi Priamarizki, “The New Media Factor and Various Campaign Forms and Tactics in Indonesia,” TheJakartaPost.com, 17 January 2014. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/01/17/the-new-media-factor-and-various-campaign-forms-and-tactics-indonesia.html

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