Fachrizal Afandi

Fachrizal Afandi is a lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Universitas Brawijaya. He teaches several courses, including Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Anthropology of Law, Criminal Justice Systems, and Socio-legal Research. In addition to teaching, Fachrizal served as secretary of the Universitas Brawijaya Legal Aid Office (2009-2013), initiating the Centre for Socio-legal Studies (2011) at the same faculty. From 2012 to 2014, he received research grants from the Indonesian Ministry of Education, allowing him to work on multi-year research on corruption, the criminal justice system, and regional government politics. In 2013, Fachrizal received a grant from the Indonesian DIKTI-Leiden Scholarship Program, allowing him to carry out his PhD research on “the Indonesian post-authoritarian public prosecutor” at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI) and the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden Law School, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Adriaan W. Bedner and Prof. Dr. Jan H. Crijns. For this project, he did one-and-half years fieldwork in a number of prosecution offices in several districts in Indonesia. During his fieldwork, he established the Centre for Criminal Justice Research at the Universitas Brawijaya (or PERSADA UB), to promote multi-disciplinary research on criminal justice issues. He is also a board member of the Indonesian Criminal Law and Criminology Society (MAHUPIKI) and founder of the Association for Indonesian Criminal Law Lecturer (DIHPA Indonesia). Fachrizal has published various articles and co-authored books in the fields of socio-legal research, criminal law, criminal procedure, and criminal justice reform in Indonesia.