Dr Adhi Priamarizki is a Research Fellow at the Indonesia Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Ritsumeikan University, Japan and a MSc in Strategic Studies from RSIS. Adhi wrote a doctoral dissertation on civil-military relations in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand. His research interests include Indonesia’s military transformation, civil-military relations in Southeast Asia, and Indonesian politics. His publications have appeared in East Asia Forum, The Jakarta Post, New Mandala, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Defense & Security Analysis, and Contemporary Southeast Asia.

• Indonesia’s Military Transformation
• Indonesia’s Defence Industry
• Indonesian Politics
• Digital Politics in Indonesia
• Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia

Working Papers

• Capturing Anti-Jokowi Sentiment and Islamic Conservative Masses: PKS 2019 Strategy

  21 November, 2019

Policy Reports

• Indonesian Navy’s Post–Defence Modernisation Challenges and Implications

  30 May, 2025

• Jokowi's Legacies and the Incoming Prabowo Administration: Change or Continuity?

  28 June, 2024

• From "FYP" to Ballot Box: TikTok and Indonesia's 2024 General Elections

  27 June, 2024

• The TNI’s Role in COVID-19 Management in Riau Islands Province

  22 February, 2023

RSIS Commentary Series

• TNI’s 2019 Joint Exercise: Adding More Fire Power

  20 November, 2019

• Jokowi’s New Cabinet: Guiding Two Visions of Indonesia to 2024

  24 October, 2019

IDSS Papers

• IP26075 | Strategic Convenience in Motion: The Deepening of Indonesia-Japan Defence Cooperation

  02 July, 2026

• IP26067 | Prabowo’s Defence Challenge: Making “Triple Helix” Work

  21 May, 2026

• IP26041 | Beyond Food Resilience: The Indonesian Army’s Territorial Development Battalions

  12 March, 2026

• IP25096 | Indonesia’s Special Forces and the Quest for Contemporary Relevance

  07 October, 2025

• IP25072 | Indonesia-France: Prabowo’s Bastille Day Invitation Underscores Growing Bilateral Relations

  22 July, 2025

• IP25054 | A Strategic Convergence Indonesia–Türkiye Relations

  30 April, 2025

• IP24099 | A Pragmatic Path: Indonesia’s Engagement with AUKUS

  20 November, 2024

• IP24084 | Prabowo’s Post-Election Diplomacy: Domestic-driven International Activism

  15 October, 2024

• IP24082 | Indonesia’s Defence Industry: Challenges Facing the Incoming Prabowo Administration

  09 October, 2024

• IP24071 | PDI-P Beyond 2024 General Elections: Opposition, Cadreisation, and Ideology

  06 September, 2024

• IP23086 | Anies Baswedan and the 2024 Presidential Election: Preserving the Right, Capturing the Middle

  29 November, 2023

• IP23084 | Indonesia’s 2024 General Elections: Competing Defence Visions and Military Priorities

  28 November, 2023

• IP23075 | Indonesian Political Parties and Foreign Policy in the 2024 General Election

  26 October, 2023

• IP23068 | Prabowo Subianto’s Electoral Strategy: Jokowi, New Persona, and National Prestige

  20 September, 2023

• IP23058 | Golkar and the 2024 General Election: Internal Consolidation and Electoral Improvement

  18 August, 2023

• IP23049 | PDIP and the 2024 General Elections: Generational Shift and Party Consolidation

  04 July, 2023

• IP23045 | PKS and the 2024 General Elections: West Java, Presidential Coattail Effect and Grassroots Strategy

  15 June, 2023

• IP23040 | Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence 25 Years after Reformasi

  16 May, 2023

• IP22080 | Yudo Margono as Panglima TNI: Organisation, Interoperability and Continuity

  19 December, 2022

• IP22069 | Towards the End of the Pandemic: The Case of Indonesia's Riau Islands Province

  18 November, 2022

• IP22063 | New Defence Structures in Riau Islands: Implications and Challenges

  08 November, 2022

• IP22046 | Inscribed in Stone: The Making of Jokowi's Foreign Policy Legacy

  22 August, 2022

• IP21006 | Nominating a Panglima TNI: Between Organisational Needs and Politics

  05 October, 2021

Authored Books

• Optimasi Industri Pertahanan Nasional Guna Mendorong Transformasi Militer Indonesia [Optimalisation of National Defence Industry to Foster Indonesia’s Military Transformation] (with Reine Prihandoko, Febry Triantama, and Aditya Haryo Wahyudi). Jakarta: LAB 45, 2023
• The Army and Ideology in Indonesia: From Dwifungsi to Bela Negara (with Muhamad Haripin, and Keoni Indrabayu Marzuki). Oxon: Routledge, 2020

Journal Articles

• “The Guardian of the Votes? Purnawirawan Politics in Indonesia’s 2024 National Legislative Elections” (with Muhamad Haripin) in Asian Politics & Policy, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2026
• “Indonesia’s Russia-Ukraine war stance and the Global South: Between solidarity and transactionalism” (with Leonard C. Sebastian) in Global Policy, 2024
• “Understanding the Domestic Determinants of Indonesia’s Hedging Policy towards the United States and China” in Contemporary Southeast Asia, 46, 1, 2024, 19-42
• “The Indonesian Military and Counter Terrorism in Poso, 2015–2022” (with Muhamad Haripin, and Chaula Rininta Anindya) in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2023
• “Quasi-Civilian Defence Minister and Civilian Authority: The Case Study of Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence During Joko Widodo’s Presidency” (with Muhamad Haripin, and Sigit S. Nugroho) in Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 2022
• “Explaining Indonesia’s Under-balancing: The Case of the Modernisation of the Air Force and the Navy” (with Iis Gindarsah) in Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, 8, 3, 2021. 391-412
• “Book Review: Andrew Selth, Secrets and Power in Myanmar: Intelligence and the Fall of General Khin Nyunt (Singapore: ISEAS, 2019)” in Asia-Pacific Journal of Elections and Democracy, 1, 2, 2021, 64-65
• “The Politics of Counter-Terrorism in Post-Authoritarian States: Indonesia’s Experience, 1998-2018” (with Muhamad Haripin, and Chaula Rininta Anindya) in Defence and Security Analysis, 37, 3, 2020. 275-299
• “Indonesia Beyond Reformasi : Necessity and the ‘De-Centering’ of Democracy” (with Leonard C. Sebastian, and Jonathan Chen) in Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, , 2014, 3, 2014.

Edited Books / Special Issues

• Military Modernisation and Civil-Military Relations in Indonesia (with Muhamad Haripin, and Leonard C. Sebastian), Eds. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Chapters in Edited Books

• “The Indonesian Military and Counter Terrorism in Poso, 2015–2022” (with Muhamad Haripin, and Chaula Rininta Anindya) in Andrew T.H. Tan, Julian Droogan, Nell Bennett, Terrorism Challenges in the Indo-Pacific. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2025, 9-23
• “Fostering Developmental Guardianship: The Case of Myanmar’s Tatmadaw” in Alan Chong and Nicole Jenne, Asian Military Evolutions: Civil-Military Relations in Asia. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, 29-45
• “Indonesia’s Foreign Policy Studies: Defying the ‘Old Wine in a New Bottle’ Convention” in Evan A. Laksamana and Lina Alexandra, Hatta and Indonesia’s Independent and Active Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect. Jakarta: CSIS, 2022, pp. 143-153
• “The 2018 Simultaneous Regional Elections and 2019 Simultaneous National Elections in North Sumatera” (with Tiola) in Leonard Sebastian and Alexander Arifianto, The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian Elections: Identity Politics and Regional Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2021, 90-107
• “Indonesia: Small Air Force, Big Nation” (with Tiola) in Amit Gupta, Air Forces: The Next Generation. Havant: Howgate Publishing, 2020, 265-289

Op-Eds

• “Prabowo’s personal diplomacy needs institutional buy-in” (with Rizky Ihsan), The Strategist, 4 November 2025
• “Turkey-Indonesia’s KAAN Agreement: ‘Trickle-Down’ Strategic Autonomy Pursuit” (with Tufan Kutay Boran), Global South Forum, 1 August 2025
• “Trump’s tariffs are an opportunity for Indonesia to advance its interests”, Channel NewsAsia, 28 April 2025
• “Southeast Asia faces AI influence on elections” (with Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano), The Strategist, 4 March 2025
• “A most militarised cabinet” (with Muhamad Haripin), New Mandala, 13 November 2024
• “Golkar’s Pragmatic Power Trading: Implications and Trajectories”, The Jakarta Post, 21 August 2024
• “Jokowi Consolidates Influence over TNI as Elections Loom” (with Muhamad Haripin), New Mandala, 4 December 2023
• “Purnawirawan Politics in Indonesia’s 2024 Elections” (with Muhamad Haripin), New Mandala, 8 September 2023
• “Will revising the TNI Law compromise the reform agenda?”, The Jakarta Post, 19 May 2023
• “TNI’s Role in Counterterrorism: Between Needs and Politics”, The Jakarta Post, 31 October 2022
• “Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Its Strategic Implications for Indonesia” (with Keoni Indrabayu Marzuki), The Jakarta Post, 2 March 2022
• “What’s behind Indonesia’s choice of F-15, Rafale and its implications” (with Keoni Indrabayu Marzuki), The Jakarta Post, 18 January 2022
• “Indonesia’s Arms Procurement and US-China Global Competition”, The Jakarta Post, 7 June 2021
• “Indonesia’s Military Still Preoccupied with Internal Security”, East Asia Forum, 4 June 2021
• “TNI Involvement in COVID-19 Management: Lessons Learned”, The Jakarta Post, 12 April 2021
• “New Southern Policy and ROK-Indonesia Defence Cooperation”, ASEAN Insights, 2 September 2020
• “Defence Ministry Needs Vision for Military Procurement”, The Jakarta Post, 9 January 2020
• “Bolstering TNI Readiness, Civil-Military Cooperation for Disaster Relief”, The Jakarta Post, 21 October 2019