Eka NINGTYAS

Postdoctoral Fieldwork Research Grant in Singapore Awardee

Eka Ningtyas is a historian of modern Indonesia, specializing in political and intellectual history. She holds a PhD in History from INALCO (Paris, 2025), where she examined the articulation of Javanism in Indonesian political, religious, and literary discourse.

As the awardee of the IRASEC-IFS Postdoctoral Fieldwork Fellowship 2025-2026 in Singapore, she is developing a comparative project on the genealogy of decolonial knowledge between Singapore and Indonesia, advancing the concept of “archipelagic decoloniality” as a regional perspective. She is also a lecturer in the Department of History at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, where she works in the field of Digital Humanities, focusing on the preservation and digitization of local archives in Indonesia.

Selected Bibliographic References

• Ningtyas, Eka, “Paving the Way to Struggle : The First Kebatinan Congress of 1955 and the Politics of Religious Discourse in Indonesia”, Archipel, 105, 2023.
• Ningtyas, Eka, “Pangeran Jawa Bergerak : Kiprah Pangeran Suryodiningrat dalam Kesenian, Politik dan Dunia Spiritual”, Matajendela, XIX/3, 2024.
• Miftahuddin & Ningtyas, Eka., Sejarah Pengamalan Pancasila dari Rezim Soekarno hingga Orde Baru, Yogyakarta : UNY Press, 2025.