The director of Gempera, who is also a leader in Unram’s Islamic Culture and Society (ICS) research institute, received a research grant from BRIN for three years, 2022-2024. This research is a field research with a qualitative phenomenological approach. This research focuses on the issue of shifting identity politics among Jamaah Tabligh, especially in the DKI Jakarta elections and the 2019 presidential election. Data were collected in 5 provinces, namely NTB, DKI Jakarta, Central Java, East Kalimantan and North Sulawesi. Besides involving researchers from Gempera, this research also involved lecturers and students who participated in this research. There were 8 students involved in this research. They focused more on Lombok,…

Gempera Director Dr. Saipul Hamdi, who is also a lecturer in Sociology at Unram, obtained a one-year research grant from the Ministry of Education and Culture on “Study of Government Policies and Alternative Strategies for the Economic Development of Migrant Workers through Mapping the Potential of Social Entrepreneurship in facing the Impact of Covid-19 in Suralaga, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara”. This research was conducted in 2021-2022 in several villages in Suralaga District including Suralaga Village, Paok Lombok Village and Borok Tumbuh Village. The reason for choosing three villages in this sub-district is because the number of deported migrant workers is very large so that the impact of Covid-19 is…