Dirk Tomsa is Associate Professor in Politics at the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy. His research focuses on Indonesian and comparative Southeast Asian politics, particularly democratization, democratic decline, electoral and party politics, social movements, and environmental activism. He is the author of Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges and Democratic Decline (with Ken Setiawan, Routledge 2022) and Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era (Routledge, 2008). Since 2024, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of Asian Studies Review, the flagship journal of the Asian Studies Association of Australia.