Fynn-Niklas Franke

Advising, planning and drafting of a webinar report for the 2.0 Track webinar “EU Perspectives on CT-P/CVE in South-east Asia” as part of the EU project “Enhancing Security Cooperation in and with Asia”.

Archival Researcher

Archival Researcher

Assisted the organisation and implementation the international workshop Orality, Performance and Diaspora Studies (http://oralityworkshop.com/)

• Researched contemporary Indonesian and Malaysian politics and society • Edited academic papers on presidentialization of politics and the role of military retirees in political party development • Conducted survey evaluation of two Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia Conferences in 2014 and 2015

Assisted the EU-project Pesantren for Peace, which helps Islamic Boarding Schools in Indonesia promote Human Rights and Peaceful Conflict Resolution • Assisted with the implementation of a training program for the Indonesian communal police force (Satpol-PP) • Wrote a policy brief on Jihadi organisations in Southeast Asia

• Conducted a number of journalistic assignments • Wrote several articles for online and print (world desk)

• Contributing to the production of the monthly print edition, as well as the GEO-eMagazine • planning and production of the additional information section of an app special-edition • in-depth pre-investogations

Wrote history-related online articles and an in-depth print article on the machinations of the State Security in the former German Democratic Republic (DDR)

Thesis: A Challenge to the Whole-of-Society? An Analysis of Indonesia’s Terrorism Prevention Discourse and its Impact on State-Civil Society Cooperation (January 2019, graded 8,0).

Islam in Indonesia, International Relations, Political Corruption

Thesis: The Construction of Narratives in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia and Conflicting Memories Within the Nahdlatul Ulama (in German) (July 2016, graded 1,3)