Ammar is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for International Conflict Analysis & Management (CICAM). He obtained his PhD in political science from the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia in 2025. His research focus broadly falls under the field of gender politics, including women’s political activism and participation, the intersection of gender and Islam, gender, peace and security, and gender policymaking. He has a strong interest in progressing feminist institutionalism as both an analytical framework and a methodology by using Southeast Asia as a site for knowledge production. Throughout his research journey, he has closely worked with women’s rights and feminist organisations in Indonesia and Timor Leste.

Read more from Muhammad Ammar Hidayatulloh:

1. PhD dissertation, UQ (2025). “Beyond backlash: the politics of Islamist opposition to gender equitable reform in post-Reformasi Indonesia”. https://doi.org/10.14264/9843763

2. Article, Journal of Contemporary Asia (2024). “Ideological Contestation and Gender Policy Reforms in Post-Reformasi Indonesia”. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2177558

3. Online piece with Shelli Israelsen, New Mandala (2026). “ The Timorese women’s movement continues the struggle”. https://www.newmandala.org/the-timorese-womens-movement-continues-the-struggle/