Saiful Mujani

Visiting Scholar
104D Mershon Center
614.292.1356
saifuljohn@yahoo.com

Background
Saiful Mujani is founder of the Lemnaga Survei Indonesia (Indonesian Survey Institute), the premier survey institute in that country, as well as director of research at the Freedom Institute, and associate professor of political studies at the Universitas Islam Negeri, Jakarta. Mujani has been principal investigator in mass opinion surveys on voting behavior, religion, democracy, and public policy in Indonesia since 1999.

Mershon Project
While at the Mershon Center, Mujani will work with Bill Liddle on the Indonesian National Election Project, a social scientific survey conducted in the wake of Indonesia’s national parliamentary elections on April 9, 2009.

Research foci include perceptions of Indonesian voters about political parties and leaders, as well as channels and processes through which voters received information about partisan politics during the political campaign.

The 2009 survey was conducted by Lemnaga Survei Indonesia under the auspices of the Comparative National Elections Project, organized by Richard Gunther.  Mujani and Liddle will create a dataset of responses, then analyze Indonesian voting behavior by comparing the results to a similar survey conducted in 2004. The result will be a book about Indonesian voting behavior.

Saiful Mujani
Visiting Scholar
Mershon Center for International Security Studies