Impunity from below: Vigilantism and the state in democratic Indonesia 

Sana Jaffrey is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Department of Political and Social Change, and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. She previously led the implementation of the National Violence Monitoring System (NVMS) data project at the World Bank, Jakarta (2008-2013) and served as the director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), Jakarta (2021-2022). Her research on violent conflict and the challenges of state-building in Asia has been published in Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Terrorism and Political Violence and Journal of East Asian Studies. She has a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation on vigilantism in Indonesia was awarded the 2020 prize for best dissertation fieldwork by the American Political Science Association.

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