Professor Burhanuddin Muhtadi is Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta, and an executive director of Indonesia’s leading independent public opinion research institute, Indikator Politik Indonesia. He is also a Visiting Fellow in the Indonesia Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. Burhanuddin received his PhD from the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University (ANU), working on money politics in Indonesia. He has also published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of East Asian Studies, Asian Studies Review, Pacific Affairs, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Asian Journal of Social Science and high-ranked disciplinary journals like World Politics, Third World Quarterly, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Party Politics, Democratization, International Journal of Communication, and Electoral Studies.
