Dr Rini Astuti
Crawford School of Public Policy
ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy
Rini Astuti is a Research Fellow at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy.
Dr Astuti has conducted research on contemporary environmental challenges facing Southeast Asia. Her research focuses on resource governance in Indonesia, including on climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. Dr Astuti’s current research is on haze-producing biomass fires and an emerging framework for peatland and forest governance in Indonesia.
Her research draws from a political ecology perspective that problematized the implications of neoliberal environmental governance for different actors across multiple scales in Indonesia, including local and indigenous communities.