Irene Hadiprayitno is a University Lecturer at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. She is a political scientist and human rights scholar by training. Her research journey encompasses a wide variety of topics from investigating participatory development, political agency, legal pluralism and transitional justice, to analyzing regionalism in Southeast Asia. She currently serves as co-editor for the Palgrave Macmillan’s Book Series on Human Rights Interventions.

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Fields of interest

• Human Rights and Democratization
• Regionalism in Southeast Asia
• Governance of Agricultural Modernization 

Research

My research is a comprehensive exploration of the link between political ideologies, governance, human rights in the context of plural legal orders.  Grounded in field studies, my recent articles have sought to analyse the politics of transitional justice in Indonesia and to contextualise agricultural modernization in Papua within the global human rights discourse. I am currently engaged in a study on the dynamics of consensus and dissensus between state and non-state actors on human rights in ASEAN. The study aims to disentangle the consensus frame by focusing on contradictions that exist in Southeast Asian foreign policies, actors' narratives, and their preferred networks and types of institutions. 

Grants and awards

• Riset Kolaborasi Indonesia, 2024
• Leiden Faculty Fund for Research Collaboration, 2023 
• Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Publication Grant, 2022 
• Leiden Global Interactions, Breed Grant, 2018 
• UNESCO, Fellowship Program, 2006 
• Nordic School of Human Rights, Mobility Scholarship, 2006 
• Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, Research Grant, 2004 
• Utrecht University, University Scholarship Program, 2003 
• Open Society Institute, University Scholarship, 2002 
• Netherlands Education Centre Jakarta, STUNED Scholarship, 2000

Curriculum vitae

I was born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and studied International Relations (BA) at University of Indonesia (2000). My master degree is in International Protection on Human Rights (LLM) from Utrecht University (2001). In 2009, I obtained my PhD from Utrecht University’s Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) where I wrote my dissertation on the right to development and development hazards. Before joining Leiden, I worked as a postdoc and lecturer at the Law and Governance Group, Wageningen University (2009-2013). In 2014, I was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the University of Edinburgh.

Selected publications

S.S.F. Regilme Jr. and I. Hadiprayitno (2022). Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

I. Hadiprayitno (2017). ‘The Limit of Narratives: Ethnicity and Indigenous Rights in Papua, Indonesia’, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Vol. 24(1).

I. Hadiprayitno (2017). ‘Who Owns the Right to Food? Interlegality and Competing Interests in Agricultural Modernisation in Papua, Indonesia’, Third World Quarterly. Vol. 38(1).

O. Hospes and I. Hadiprayitno (2010) Governing Food Security: Law, Politics and the Right to Food. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Pub.

I. Hadiprayitno (2009) Hazard or Right? The Dialectics of Development Practice and the Internationally Declared Right to Development, with Special Reference to Indonesia, School of Human Rights Research Series, Vol. 31, Antwerp: Intersentia.

Publications