User:Ridhoalhamdi

Ridho Al-Hamdi is a political analyst living in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He was born in Metro, Lampung, 10 May 1985, but currently, he lives in Kasihan, Bantul, Yogyakarta. He is the director for the International Program of Government Affairs and Administration Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), Indonesia. His research interests are political parties, election, democracy, Islam and politics, and political ideology. He earned his doctorate (Dr. phil.) from the Department of Philosophy and Political Science at TU Dortmund University in 2017, where he was a recipient of the Indonesian' BPPLN Kemenristekdikti scholarship. Previously, he obtained his master degree at Universitas Gadjah Mada and his bachelor degree at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. He was an alumnus of Madrasah Mu'allimin Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta where he stayed for six years inside the boarding school as a santri. His academic experiences are as a visiting professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (Erasmus+ Grant, Spring Season 2018) and adjunct assistant professor at Asia University, Taiwan (collaborative grant, 2018).

He wrote some books, such as Partai Politik Islam: Teori dan Praktik di Indonesia (2013), Indonesian Political Ideology: Political Parties and Local Governance in Yogyakarta Municipality 1998-2015 (2017), Islam dan Politik di Indonesia: Pemikiran Muslim Modernis Pasca Orde Baru (2018), Teknik Alokasi Suara Menjadi Kursi di Parlemen (2018), and Epistemologi Oksidentalisme: Membongkar Mitos Superioritas Barat, Membangun Kesetaraan Peradaban (2019). He also published various research-based articles in international and national journals. For personal communication, please send messages to his e-mail: ridhoalhamdi@umy.ac.id.