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THE CONTRIBUTORS
(The information as of November 2005, in alphabetical order according to names as they are spelt)
AKIRA SATO is the NGO Chief Director of the Employment Development Support Association (EDSA) in
Japan. He was a volunteer staff at the Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development.
AMBAR YOGANINGRUM is a researcher at the Center for Scientific Documentation and Information, The
Indonesian Institute of Sciences. She has written on medicinal plants, pharmaceutical science, patents and property
rights, and bibliometrics and did a scientific database on Indonesian indigenous herbs. She completed her Master in
Public Health at the University of Indonesia and studied Information Management in Australia.
ASKIAH BINTI MOHD. ADAM is a freelance writer and consultant in Malaysia. She is also the Director of IMT
Defence Sdn, Bhd. As a member of the “Sisters in Islam”, she has been actively involved in organizing the groups’
conferences, seminars, workshops and public talks to bring about a woman-friendly perspective in Islam.
BOONLERT VISETPRICHA is a lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University,
Thailand. He has been working on the issue of urban poor, working for homeless people in Thailand and organizing
to bridge slum community while working at Human Settlement Foundation.
CHAN CHEE KHOON is Associate Professor at the Universiti Sains Malaysia and has written extensively
on public health and health care reforms. He is a health policy analyst, advocate and consultant to various
groups including the Citizen Health Initiative, Global Health Watch, People’s Health Movement,
Coalition to Oppose the Privatization of Healthcare, and Federation of Malaysian Consumer Associations.
ELIZABETH UY EVIOTA is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila
University and consultant to NGOs, government and international development agencies on gender and
development. She has published extensively on political economy of gender, gendered work, poverty, development,
and the state in the Philippines in the Asian context.
FLAUDETTE MAY V. DATUIN is Associate Professor at the Department of Art Studies, University of the
Philippines-Diliman. She is one of the editors of www.trauma-interrupted.org, and has been involved in gender
and development studies both as an academic and a resource person or a consultant for NGOs and international
development agencies.
INDRI HAPSARI SUSILOWATI is a lecturer at the Department of Occupational Health and Safety, Faculty of
Public Health, University of Indonesia and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Occupational and Environmental
Health in Japan. Her area of interest is ergonomics.
I NYOMAN NURJAYA was formerly the Dean and currently a lecturer of the Post-Graduate School of Law of the
Brawijaya University, Indonesia and member of the Indonesia Environmental Law Lecturer Association, Indonesia
Anthropologist Association, and the Commission of Folk Law and Legal Pluralism. He completed his
doctoral degree on legal anthropology at the University of Indonesia and was researcher, legal expert and drafter
to various academic, government and NGO initiatives with special interests on environmental and community
development.
ISBANDI RUKMINTO ADI is the head of the Social Welfare Post-Graduate Program of the Department of
Social Welfare, Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia and head of the of the Center for
Child, Family, and Community Empowerment. He has published teaching materials, books, and articles on social
welfare and community development, and on maternal and child care.
KANNIKA ANGSUTHANASOMBAT has done researches on Thai migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong,
female labor returnees in Thailand, and reintegration model for Thai worker returnees. She translated a handbook
for Thai women migrants and worked as Coordinator of Friends of Thai, a support group for Thai domestic workers
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