Lectures & Presentations
(2025 June) “Polyamory and Law”, Comparative Sexual Orientation Law: Data for a developing discipline, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands.
(2024 December) “Freedom within Limits: The Regulatory Power of Law in Everyday Life”, Asian Law and Society Association Annual Conference 2023, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.
(2024, November) “Shifting, and Elusive Definitions of Sexual Consent”, Rutgers, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
(2023 December) “Law’s Drawing Line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan”, Asian Law and Society Association Annual Conference 2023, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
(2023 December) “Public Support for the Death Penalty in Japan: The ‘Impermeability’ Model and the Symbolic Power of the Legal Regime“, Death Penalty in Asia, hosted by Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS), The University of Melbourne, Australia.
(2023 April) “Shifting Definitions of Sexual Consent: The Drafting Process of Consent-Based Rape Law in the Netherlands (2020 – ongoing)” & “The limits of sexual freedom: sexual consent, societal morality, and deviant behaviour”, Socio-Legal Studies Association conference 2023 Ulster University, Derry-Londonderry, UK.
(2023 February) “Is Child Marriage an Islamic Practice?”, Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law, organized by Max Planck Research Group on Family and Succession Law in Islamic Countries, Hamburg, Germany.
(2022 September) “Agency in international human rights” CHRLP & VVI Workshop on Human Rights and Selective Agency, Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism – McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
(2022 July) “The role of law in dealing with dilemmas between protection and agency of the child: comparative legal study on age of consent” Law and Society Association 2022 Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal & Online.
(2021, December) “Child marriage as a choice?: Towards effective interventions, case studies from Indonesia”, Child Marriage and Health: Protagonism and/or Protectionism? Webinar organized by University of Antwerp Law and Development Research Group (Belgium) and the Law Faculty of Mzumbe University (Tanzania)
(2021, November) “Child Marriage as a Choice: Rethinking agency in international human rights”, Oxford Children’s Rights Network, Webinar organized by Oxford University.
(2021, November) “The legal and social position of children born outside wedlock or born from informal marriages in Indonesia”, presented with Theresia Dyah Wirastri (University of Indonesia), RIMO (Association for the Study of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law) Symposium, Leiden, the Netherlands.
(2021) “Containing COVID-19 in Asia I: Comparative and Cross-national Studies of Compliance, Accountability, and Enforcement in the Age of the Pandemic” Panel organizer, co-organized with Kota Fukui (Osaka University) and Hiroshi Fukurai (University of California, Santa Cruz), Asian Law and Society Association Annual Conference 2021, Bangkok, Thailand & Online.
(2021) “Adolescents’ ‘consent’ to Sex: Age of Consent Laws in Japan, Indonesia and the Netherlands”, the 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Kyoto, Japan & Online.
(2021) “The Role of Law in Dealing With Dilemmas Between Protection and Agency of the Child: Comparative Legal Study on Age of Consent”, Law and Society Association 2021 Annual Meeting, Chicago, the US & Online.
(2020) “Rethinking ‘agency’ in international human rights”, Lunch seminar given at Leiden Law School, Leiden, Netherlands.
(2019) “Children’s rights in Indonesia”, Expert interview for a presentation given by high school students in Leiden.
(2018) “Walking a Thin Line: taking children’s decision to marry seriously?”, Lunch seminar given at Department of Child Law, Leiden, Netherlands.
(2017) “A methdological Dialogue on Interdisciplinarity between Anthropology and Law”, Law and Development Conference – Antwerp, Belgium.
(2017) “Discussion: Law in East and Southeast Asia”, Panel discussion at Tour of Asia: Grand Opening Asian Library, Leiden, Netherlands.
(2016) “Children’s Rights and Child Marriage in Indonesia”, 4th Children’s Rights Research Symposium: Interaction in International Children’s Rights – Leiden, the Netherlands.
(2016) “Child Marriage in Indonesia: Between Human Rights and Social Practice”, Law and Development Research: Past, Present and Future – Ostend, Belgium.
(2016) “Child Marriage in Indonesia and Plurality of Norms”, 8th Southeast Asia Update – Leiden, the Netherlands.
(2015) “Mapping Human Rights Norms in Pluralistic Legal System in Indonesia: Issue of Child Marriage in West Java”, East Asian Law and Society Conference – Tokyo, Japan.
(2015) “Legal Pluralism and Child Marriage: Judge’s Decision on the Marriage Dispensation
in Cianjur, Sukabumi and Cibadak”, Workshop on Child Marriage, Sexual Moralities and the Politics of Decentralization in Indonesia – Jakarta, Indonesia.
Organization of International Conferences & Workshops
(2024 June) Leiden, the Netherlands
Making Sense of a Trend: Legal Reforms on Sexual Violence in Europe – organizer, facilitator, presenter
(2022 September) Montreal, Canada
CHRLP & VVI Workshop on Human Rights and Selective Agency – organizer, facilitator, presenter
co-organized by McGill Law Faculty – Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
(2018) Leiden, the Netherlands
Law and Development Research Network Conference: Interface – organizer, presenter
(2017) Bali, Indonesia
Workshop Perlindungan Hukum Perkawinan Anak di Bali(Workshop on Legal Protection for Child Marriage in Bali) – organizer, moderator
co-organized by LBH Apil Bali (legal aid association in Bali)
(2017) Jakarta, Indonesia
Workshop on Child Marriage in Indonesia – organizer
co-organized by University of Indonesia with funding from Toyota Foundation and Canadian embassy in Jakarta
(2015) Jakarta, Indonesia
Workshop on Child Marriage, Sexual Moralities and the Politics of Decentralization
in Indonesia – presenter, organizer
co-organized by University of Indonesia with AMT funding
(2015) Nagoya, Japan
SOAS, SMLSSK & CALE Joint Workshop on Migration and Pluralism – moderator,
student secretary
Hoko Horii 