Dr Jacqui Baker
PhD Comparative Politics, MSc Social Anthropology, BA (Politics), BAS (Indonesian)

I am a political economist who studies the politics of law, policing and crime, primarily in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, but also increasingly in Australia. I have particular interests in democratization and policing, corruption and anti-corruption and environmental crime. I work across a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including ethnography, elite interviewing, regression analysis and social network analysis.

I have also worked or provided consultancy services on political, legal or police issues for numerous international organisations including East Timor’s Commission for Truth, Reception and Reconciliation, The Asia Foundation, the European Union, Amnesty International, International IDEA, United National Office for Drugs and Crime, DFAT and U4 Anti-Corruption Commission.

I hold a PhD in Comparative Government and an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics as well as Bachelor of Arts and Asian Studies degrees from the Australian National University. 

POL202 Policing the politics of counterterrorism

POL228 Democracy, Dictatorship and Capitalism

SWM640 Corruption, Anti-Corruption and its Discontents

• Indonesian Politics and Society
• Corruption and Illegal Economies
• Coercive State Institutions
• Politics of Law
• Democracy and Democratization

• Currently I am working on a number of research projects.

  1) A monograph on policing and police reform in Indonesia in the post-New Order period.

  2) Mapping corrupt networks that lead to deforestation, using social network analysis. This work has been done in collaboration with the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Commission and U4 Anti-Corruption.

  3) Understanding the dynamics in police shootings, including patterns of torture and extrajudicial execution.

2012    ABC Radio National 360 Documentaries

2011    UOW University Small Grant Award

2011    NSW Law Society Public Purpose Fund

2009    Australian Friends of LSE Award

2006    Central Research Travel Grant, University of London,

2003    Sir General John Monash Award, providing AU$150,000 over three years towards a Ph.D.

2002    Ann Bates Prize for Indonesian Studies

2002    Federation of University Women Prize – ACT

2001    Distinguished Students’ Award, ANU Chancellor

• “Eat Pray Mourn” Ubud Writers Festival, Bali, 1-5 October
• “The Indonesian Election 2014″, 29 July, Australian Strategic Policy Initiative (ASPI) 
• “Transnational Crime in the Pacific” School of International, Strategic and Political Studies, ANU, 12 May
• “Monash Made Us a Nation”, 22 May, Monash Commemorative Service, Knox Grammar 
• “Police Accountability”, 2014, Advanced Police Academy (PTIK), Indonesian National Police. Jakarta, Indonesia. 9 April

• “Indonesia Mon Amour: On the Ethics of Loving a Serial Killer” Causindy (Conference for Australian and Indonesian Youth), 19 October.
• “The Police”, Australia’s Aid to Indonesia: Understanding the Context, Ausaid, 1 August.  
• “Making Eat Pray Mourn: Towards Radio Documentary as Aural Ethnography” CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong, May 22.

• “The Parman Economy: Post-Authoritarian Shifts in the Security Economy” Indonesia Studies Group, Australian National University. December 12.
• “The Parman Economy: Post-Authoritarian Shifts in the Security Economy” KITLV. November 15.
• “Democratisation from Military-Authoritarian Rule and the Rise of the Police” Advanced Police Academy (PTIK), Indonesian National Police. Jakarta, Indonesia. 3 February.

• “From Casino Protectionism to the Economy of Law: Post Authoritarian Transformations in the Illicit Revenue Source of the Indonesian Police” Asian Studies, Murdoch University, Fremantle. 6 October.

• “The Reform of the Police in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia” Indonesia Forum Meeting, Chatham House, London. 8 March.

• President of the Indonesia Council.
• National Reference Group member for the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesia Studies (ACICIS)
• John Monash Fellow
• Elected member of Academic Council.
• Australia Indonesia Awards

• Trissia Widjaya: The political economy of Chinese/Japanese infrastructure financing in Indonesia
• Jessia Manulong: The politics of lawyering in Indonesia
• Brian Doce: The political economy of halal certification regulation in Thailand and the Philippines

Chapters

• Baker, J., (2015),Professionalism without reform: The security sector under Yudhoyono,In: The Yudhoyono Presidency, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pages 114 to 135.

Journals

• Baker, J., (2021), The sun shines brighter in the police state, City & Society, 33, 1, pages -.
• Baker, J., (2015), The Rhizome State: Democratizing Indonesia's Off-Budget Economy, Critical Asian Studies, 47, 2, pages 309 - 336.
• Baker, J., Milne, S., (2015), Dirty Money States: Illicit Economies and the State in Southeast Asia, Critical Asian Studies, 47, 2, pages 151 - 176.

Google scholar

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-8842

Other publications:

2014

• ‘Will Indonesia Be Great?’ Inside Story, 4 December
• ‘Indonesia Police’s Virginity Tests Fits a Pattern of Flagrant Rights Abuses’ The Conversation 1 December
• ‘Stand by your man’ New Mandala 14 July 
• ‘Our mismanaged relationship with Indonesia’ Canberra Times 3 June
• ‘A letter to my PhD student after her upgrade’ 28 May
• ‘The Decline of the Demokrats’, 2014, SBS News online, 7 April 2014

• ‘After Justice’ Inside Indonesia 114 Oct-Dec
• ‘Crime and Punishment in Jakarta’ ABC Radio National 360 Documentaries, 7 April

• ‘Indonesia and Australia: What Makes Neighbours Good Friends?’, 2012, East Asia Forum, 17 August
• ‘Look within for transnational criminals’ The Conversation, 25 June

• “Arrested Development”, 2010, Van Zorge Report Vol X, September.

2008

• “A Sibling Rivalry”, 2008, Inside Indonesia, No. 93 Aug-October edition

• 13. ‘Education Reform in Indonesia’, 2003, Gatra Special Edition, November (In Bahasa Indonesia).
• ‘Laskar Jihad’, 2001, Inside Indonesia Nov-Jan edition,

Other Media

• Schonhardt, Sarah. ‘Could Indonesia’s Jokowi Take a Lesson from Obama? 2014. Wall Street Journal. October 13. http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2014/10/13/could-indonesias-jokowi-take-a-lesson-from-obama/
• Speaker on Hack, Triple J. 24 July 2014.
• Vit, Jonathon, 2014, Jokowi Widodo is Indonesia’s Reformist President Elect Vice. 23 July. http://www.vice.com/read/joko-widodo-is-indonesias-reformist-president-elect
• Indonesian Election Coverage. ABC 24. 3 July.
• Sagita D & Pearl, H, 2014, Presidential Candidates offer More But Not Enough to Sway Swing Voters’ The Jakarta Globe. 16 June.  http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/presidential-candidates-offer-enough-sway-swing-voters
• Fitzgerald, Stephen, 2013 “New perspectives on Indonesian massacres”, The Australian, April 16.  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/film/new-perspectives-on-indonesian-massacres/story-e6frg8pf-1226621062543
• Saturday Extra with Geraldine Doogue, 30 March 2013, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/indonesia-series/459756
• Bachelard, Michael, 2012, ‘Blind eye to bikies in paradise’, December 15, Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/national/blind-eye-to-bikies-in-paradise-20121214-2besq.html
• ‘Polisi Brutal, Masyarakat Gugat’, Hukum dan Keadilan, Radio 68H, 23 January 2012.  (Invited expert on national talkback radio in Indonesia on police human rights abuses).
• ‘Australia Targets “flourishing” Environmental Crime’, 2011, ABC The World Today. 23 September. http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3324074.htm, rebroadcast on Asia Calling 1 October 2011.