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CURRENT PROJECTS

Politics of Nuclear Policy in Post-Suharto Indonesia

This research looks into the current development of nuclear policy in Indonesia. It explores the political structure that has allowed nuclear energy to emerge as a compelling technological option for the government to cope with energy crisis. This research probes the capacity of the post-Suharto state to handle high risk technology and seeks to identify critical points in the state's policymaking process from which nuclear power possibly poses hazards.

A study of Sociotechnical System of Biofuel

This research examines the biofuel iniative launched by the Indonesian government to gradually replace the use of fossil fuel. A number of technical regimes are analyzed to see how biofuel development could benefit people at large.

E-government, Decentralized Politics, and Public Decisionmaking

This research examines the impacts of the use of information technology in public service. It analyze the intertwined relationship between technology, democracy, and politics.

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

Technological Nationalism in the New Order Indonesia

This project explores into the conjunction of nationalism and high technology focusing on the Indonesian aerospace industry during Suharto's era. It offers the notion of technological nationalism driven from Ricouer's concept f ideology useful to unfold social, cultural, and political implications of nationalist rhetoric to technological development. (see publication)

Design Policy in the Third World

This project was part of NSF-funded "An STS Focus on Design" research project carried out by STS Department at Rensselaer. It examined the mainstream design policy orientation and offered an alternative approach of human-centered design policy based on Winner's concept of political ergonomics. It resulted in a publication on Design Issues (see publication)