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Profile of Douglas Ramage Representative, The Asia Foundation, Indonesia

Expertise: Indonesian politics and U.S.-Indonesia relations; Islam in Southeast Asia; Islam and democracy; legal and economic reform; and elections.

Douglas E. Ramage is The Asia Foundation's representative to Indonesia and Malaysia, where he is responsible for the Foundation's civil society, legal and economic reform, and democracy-strengthening programs.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Ramage held research and teaching appointments in Southeast Asian politics at the East-West Center and the University of Hawaii. He spent two years as a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia and was previously research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.

Dr. Ramage is the author of numerous works on Indonesian politics, with a special focus on the relationship between Islam and democracy. His publications include: Indonesia: The Challenge of Change, co-editor with Richard Baker, M. Hadi Soesastro, and J. Kristiadi, (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1999); Politics in Indonesia: Democracy, Islam and the Ideology of Tolerance (Routledge, London, Second Edition, 1997); and "Indonesia at 50: Islam, Nationalism (and Democracy?)" in Southeast Asian Affairs 1996 (Singapore, 1996).

Education: B.A. from the University of Maryland; M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina.