ORCID: 0000-0002-8432-842X; Scopus ID: 25825179800;  WoS ID: M-6112-2019; Google Scholar: JA Lassa; ResearchGate: Jonatan Lassa RG. 

Modesty in the roles of a gardener (a must!); a father and husband; a scholar; an activist (when necessary). I used to live/study and/or fulltime work in the following countries in the last 20 years: Indonesia, England, Germany, USA, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand.

About Me

Only a few rare individual scientists/academics/scholars who can be successful without a team. And obviously, I am not one of them. So, I do not fully agree in academic ranking because good disaster sciences are always a result of collective work of committed individuals from peers to research students. However, one might have argued that any alternative recognition might or might not do justice to those who focus on quality teachings and remain unseen by the world. 

Regardless, it was a good feeling that your work is being recognized – as I was awarded: “Top Research in the Field of Emergency Management” by the Australian Research Magazine 2023“, 2024 and 2025. Many disaster scholars deserved to be the one on the List but somehow, they did not categorise themselves to be part of emergency management field under business and management category. So, in a way I was albeit ‘lucky’. 

Also, a mixed but still good feeling to be listed as part of top 2% scientist in 2024 and the “Science and Health Editor’s Choice Award 2022” for contributions to science-based journalism focusing on disasters and health in The Conversation (ID) in 2022.

I started my academic career very late as I spent the first 12 years after undergradute in ‘real-world’ professional settings (with NGOs/INGOs, United Nations organizations, the private sector, think tanks and consulting industries). Since 2014, I have the privilege to have been working as a scientist at NTS RSIS-NTU Singapore (2014-2015), and faculty member at CDU Darwin Australia (2016-2024) and later as a senior scientist at Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS Science), New Zealand (since 2024). I still maintain my association with CDU as I still 5 supervise PhD students at CDU as an adjunct senior fellow.

I identify myself as an interdisciplinary social scientist with an engineering background! My research focuses on climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, humanitarian studies, emergency planning, crisis management, food security, sustainability science, risk governance, urban-rural resilience and broader societal safety studies. Recently, I have been trying to use Science, Technology and Society (STS) framework to inform my research on disaster and climate change risks.

I have been teaching and supervising students on the interdisciplinary dimension of humanitarian emergency and disaster management at Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia (2016-2024) where I was responsible for teaching core units offered in the Master of Emergency and Disaster Management, Master of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response and the Bachelor of Humanitarian Aid and Development. I had the privilege to teach Global Environmental Change and Humanitarian Response course for one semester at Auckland University of Technology in 2024 (contracted via GNS Science). 

I completed my PhD at the University of Bonn while based at United Nations University in Bonn, Germany. I also completed one winter-semester post-doctoral fellowship at Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, in 2011 and later received a Willis Re Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the Institute of Catastrophic and Risk Management (ICRM), Nanyang Technological University in 2011/2012. 

My contributions to global disaster studies include macro and micro-level disaster governance, complex network theory application in disaster management, institutions and institutionalisation framework in disaster reduction. I am promoting a new concept namely the networked ecosystems approach to humanitarian studies and disaster risk reduction, through both academic papers and consultancy work. My doctoral research has been one of the first systematic studies on disaster governance, looking at institutions and governance practices in disaster reduction in countries around the world. I was the first one who coined and defined the term “disaster risk governance” (DRG) as a framework in my PhD thesis. Google hits on DRG grew from zero in 2007 and now reaching 90,000 as of early 2019.

I am a generalist as my interest is in broader interdisciplinarity and approaches to disaster risk and climate change. I recently worked on understanding the structure of political will on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation using a quantitative and qualitative approaches. I have been working on risk objects, disaster policy-making, disasters and utopia, systematic analysis of disaster code/laws (Indonesia and Australia), global mapping on political will for disaster reduction, governing climate and disaster loss, social network analysis and network theory application in climate adaptation and disaster management, multi-hazard + conflict early warning system, humanitarian reform, humanitarian technology, institutional vulnerability assessment, local disaster management policy reform, global and regional humanitarian ecosystems, NGOs/CSOs network structure, urban climate governance, disaster education, food system under climate change and critical realist approach to disaster policy-making.

For Prospective HDR Students, I Welcome PhD students for the following topics.

Books

Examining Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia

Building Social Resilience

Sail Through the Storms with Cash Transfer: Survivor’s Stories of Cash and Vouchers Assistance in Indonesia During Disasters and Covid-19

 

 

See my current research projects!

Penduduk Rote Ndao dan Sabu Raijua 1820-2017

Suggestion for citation: Jonatan A. Lassa and Randy Banunaek 2018. Long term trend of Population Growith and Density in Rote and Sabu districts, NTT.  IRGSC Brief #17, IRGSC. 

IRGSC Brief #17 200 Tahun Perkembangan Penduduk Rote Ndao dan Sabu Raijua.

Untuk memahami perkembangan Rote-Ndao dan Sabu-Raijua masa, saya berpendapat bahwa kita harus mampu melihat kembali ke dua pulau ini dalam kurun waktu dua ratus tahun terkahir. Memahami perkembangan penduduk pulau-pulau kecil penting sekali bagi ilmu sosial maupun studi-studi ekologi manusia. Pengetahuan yang detail soal perkembangan pulau-pulau kecil ini memberikan informasi soal kompleksitas adaptasi manusia dan alam dalam rentang waktu sejarah panjang manusia.

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Konsep population ecology cukup memberikan inspirasi bagi penelitian ekologi manusia dan antropology di Indonesia dalam skala yang berbeda seperti skala pulau (Ferdinand J. Ormeling -Timor 1950an), Clifford Gertz 1963 – Jawa) ataupun antar pulau (James J. Fox – Rote/Sabu/Timor 1977) ataupun skala kabupaten (Joachim Metzner 1982). Literature-literature ini tentunya penting untuk memahami peranan slow-onset hazards maupun perkembangan demograsi dan pembangunan di pulau-pulau kecil bukan hanya di NTT dan Indonesia tetapi juga skala dunia.

Salah satu motivasi beberapa Indonesianist mula-mula tertarik meneliti perubahan ekologis skala pulau dan adaptasi manusia terhadap pertumbuhan populasi dan degradasi lingkungan yang mungkin diinspirasikan oleh konsep ortodox terkait kemampuan daya pikul pulau atas pertambahan populasi. Studi ini dikenal dengan population ecology yang dalam sering menyarankan batasan maksimum kepadatan penduduk yang dijinkan demi keberlanjutan ekologi sebuah pulau. Perkembangan populasi yang tidak terkontrol akan berujung pada kelaparan karena tidak cukup pangan bagi semua (konsep Maltusian); Risiko yang lain adalah terjadinya wabah penyakit yang dapat menyebabkan bencana epidemik yang berujung pada kematian kolektif dalam skala besar.

Tentu bukan teori semata. Catatan statistik kolonial tentu bisa menjadi rujukan mengapa terjadi penurunan penduduk Rote dalam kurum waktu 1870an-1920an. Wabah cacar-air di tahun 1879 menyebabkan sedikitnya 5 ribu orang meninggal di Rote dan 12 ribu orang di Sabu. Dan menurut analisis Fox, ada sedikitnya 14000 penduduk Rote meninggal dalam kurun waktu 15 tahun paska 1979. Populasi Sabu berkurang dari sekitar 30ribu di tahun 1869 menjadi 16 ribu dua tahun kemudian. Menurunnya penduduk rote secara drastis di tahun 1920an (Gambar 1) merupakan konsekuensi karena migrasi keluar ke Timor.

Dalam catatan pemerintah kolonial yang dikutip oleh Fox, penduduk Rote berjumlah sekitar 36000 dalam peride 1820an. Hari ini, jumlahnya mencapai angka 153 ribu orang. Sebaliknya penduduk Sabu berkembang dari 16ribu orang di 1871 menjadi 88 ribu orang. Tentu ini tidak terhitung diaspora Sabu dan Rote di Pulau Timor dan Sumba dalam rentang waktu yang sama.

Menariknya, kesadaran birokrat kolonial tentang kepadatan penduduk di Rote sudah terjadi sejak era 1860an  (Lihat Fox 1977 hal 150, terutama tentang catatan WG Coorengel 25 April 1866) yang saat itu telah mencapai 40 orang per km2.(Gambar 2 dan 3). Dalam periode yang sama, kepadatan Sabu telah mencapai 65 orang per km2. Hari ini kepadatan Rote menjadi 120 orang per km2. Sedangkan Sabu telah menjadi sangat padat dengan kepadatan 192 km2.

Lalu apa artinya semua perkembangan ini bagi Rote dan Sabu di masa depan? Apa artinya bagi NTT dalam konteks kebijakan publik? Ikuti dalam Buku 60 Tahun NTT yang akan terbit di akhir 2018/awal 2019.

 

 

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More than 140 PhD dissertations on Nusa Tenggara Timur Since 1958 [From universities abroad – not including collections from Indonesian Universities] [Work in Progress]

JA Lassa [CDU], DE. Li [IRGSC]*

1. Aoki, Eriko 2011. Piercing the sky, cutting the earth: the poetics of knowledge and the paradox of power among the Wologai of central Flores. PhD Diss. Australian National University.
2. Adams, Marie Jeanne 1969. System and meaning in East Sumba textile design : a study in traditional Indonesian art. PhD Diss. Yale University.
3. Adams, Ron L. 2007 The Megalithic Tradition of West Sumba, Indonesia: An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of Megalith Construction. Simon Fraser University.
4. Adam, James Daan‎ 2002. Migrant and local entrepreneurial business networks‎ [focus on West Timor], PhD Diss. Southern Cross University.
5. Allerton, Catherine Lucy 2001. Places, paths and persons : the landscape of kinship and history in southern Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia. PhD Diss. London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
6. Amheka, Adrianus. Comprehensive Evaluation of Energy Structure Transformation Policies to Reduce GHG Emission in Kupang, NTT, Indonesia: Assessment of Renewable Energy Technologies with Extended Dual Input-Output Analysis.PhD Thesis, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
7. Aoetpah, Aholiab (2019) Validation of metabolisable protein and energy systems to predict the productivity of meat goats fed tropical grass, legumes and protein supplements. PhD thesis, James Cook University
8. Ardhana, I Ketut. 2000. Nusa Tenggara nach Einrichtung der Kolonialherrschaft 1915 bis 1950.  PhD Diss. Universität Passau.
9. Baird, Louise; 2002. A grammar of Kéo : an Austronesian language of East Nusantara, PhD Diss. Australian National University.
10. Balukh, Jermy 2018. A grammar of Dhao, a minority Austronesian language of Eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. University of Leiden.
11. Bandur, Agustinus 2008. A study of the implementation of school-based management in Flores primary schools in Indonesia. PhD Diss. University of Newcastle
12. Barkham, ST. 1993. The Structure and Stratigraphy of the Permo-Triassic Carbonate Formations of West Timor, Indonesia. Ph.D. Thesis, University of London.
13. Barnes, Robert 1972. Kédang: a study of the collective thought of an eastern Indonesian people. PhD Diss. University of Oxford.
14. Basile, Christopher 2003. Tradition and change in Rotinese sasandu-accompanied song. PhD Thesis – Monash University.
15. Benu, Fredrik Lukas 2003. Farm productivity and farmers’ welfare in West Timor, Indonesia. PhD Diss. Curtin University of Technology.
16. Bird, Patrick Robert 1987. The geology of the Permo-Trias of Kekneno, West Timor. Royal Holloway, University of London.
17. Bire, Josua 1996. The success and the failure of senior high school students learning English as a foreign language: case studies from SMA Negeri 1 Kupang, Timor, Indonesia. Ph. D. La Trobe University.
18. Brouwer, Doeke 1935 Bijdrage tot de Anthropologie der Aloreilanden. Amsterdam: Uitgeversmaatschappij Holland.
19. Buising, Trevor John 1998. Development and devolution in Indonesia : development policy formulation and implementation in Nusa Tenggara Timur under the New Order. PhD Thesis – Griffith University. Faculty of International Business and Politics.
20. Butterworth, David J. 2008. Lessons of the Ancestors Ritual, Education and the Ecology of Mind in an Indonesian Community. [Sikka] PhD Diss. Melbourne University.
21. Campbell-Nelson, Karen 2003. Learning Resistance in West Timor. PhD Diss. School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
22. Carnegie, Michelle Ann 2008. Place-based livelihoods and post-development challenges in Eastern Indonesia. The Australian National University, Canberra.
23. Caudri, Cornélie Marguerite Bramine 1934. Tertiary deposits of Soemba. Ph. D. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
24. Charlton, T.R., 1987. The Tectonic Evolution of  the Kolbano – Timor Trough  Accretionary Complex, Timor, Indonesia, Ph.D. Diss, London University.
25. Clowes, Emma 1997. Micropalaeontological analysis of the Kolbano sequence (Jurassic to Pliocene), West Timor, and its Radiolarian fauna. PhD Thesis – University College London.
26. Cole, Stroma 2003. Cultural tourism development in Ngada, Flores, Indonesia. PhD Thesis – London Metropolitan University.
27. Cook, S. E. 1986. Triassic Sediments from East Kekneno, West Timor. Ph.D. thesis – University of London.
28. Coury, William Gerard 1999. An Exploration of the Impact of Economic Development on Indonesian Weavers and Their Handwoven Textiles: Insana, West Timor. PhD Diss. Education, Columbia University
29. Curnow, Jayne 2007 Ngadha webs of interdependence : a community economy in Flores, IndonesiaW. PhD Diss. Anthropology Australian National University
30. Damaledo, Andrey Yushard 2016. Divided loyalties : displacement, belonging and citizenship among East Timorese in West Timor. PhD Diss. Anthropology Australian National University.
31. de Roever, Arend 2002. De jacht op sandelhout : de VOC en de tweedeling van Timor in de zeventiende eeuw (The hunt for sandalwood: the VOC and the split of Timor in the seventeenth century). PhD Thesis, Leiden University
32. De Rozari, Philiphi 2017. An Investigation into the Use of Biochar as a Media Amendment to Treat Sewage and the Feasibility of Constructed Wetland Ecotechnology in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. PhD diss., Griffith University
33. Djahimo, Santri Emilin Pingsaboi 2010. The physical, cultural and socio-economic contexts of educational innovation in rural and disadvantaged schools in Indonesia : a case study / Santri Emilin Pingsaboi Djahimo, PhD diss., Macquarie University.
34. Djawanai, Stephanus Anthonius 1980. A study of the Ngadha text tradition: a linguistic investigation of the collective mind of the Ngadha people on the Island of Flores, Indonesia. PhD Diss. University of Michigan.
35. Dorling, Mary Janet 1999. All the prostitutes come from Java : structure, organisation and diversity in the sex industry in Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur and risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Ph. D. University of Sydney
36. Duggan, Geneviève. 2008. “Processes of Memory on the Island of Savu.” PhD Diss. NUS, Singapore
37. Durney, Florence 2019. The Costs of Adaptation: A Comparative Study of Marine Protected Area Planning and Small-Scale Coastal Communities in Eastern Indonesia. The University of Arizona.
38. Edwards, Owen David Ernest 2017. Metathesis and Unmetathesis: Parallelism and Complementary in Amarasi, an Austronesian Language western Timor. PhD Diss.  Australian National University
39. Eichel, Julia Von 2001. Methoden der Blutstillung und Wundversorgung : eine Feldstudie bei den Ngada auf Flores (Indonesien). PhD Diss. Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat zu Frankfurt am Main.
40. Erb, Maribeth 1987 When rocks were young and earth was soft: ritual and mythology in northeastern Manggarai. State University of New York, Stony Brook.
41. Emmet, Peter Anthony 1996. Cenozoic inversion structures in a back-arc setting, Western Flores Sea, Indonesia, PhD Diss. Rice University.
42. Farram, Steven (2004). From ‘Timor Koepang’ to ‘Timor NTT’: a political history of West Timor, 1901-1967. PhD diss., Charles Darwin University.
43. Fisher, Lawrence Alan 1999. Beyond the Berugaq: Conflict, Policy and Decision-Making in forest and conservation management in Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. PhD Diss. Cornell University
44. Fitriana, Ria 2014. Assessing the impact of a marine protected area on coastal livelihoods: A case study from Pantar Island, Indonesia. PhD diss. Charles Darwin University.
45. Forshee, Jill Kathryn 1996. Powerful connections: Cloth, identity, and global links in East Sumba, Indonesia. University of California, Berkeley [Anthropology]
46. Forth, Gregory L. 1980. Rindi : an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in Eastern Sumba. PhD diss. Oxford University.
47. Forth, Christine E. 1982. An analysis of traditional narrative in eastern Sumba PhD Diss. University of Oxford
48. Fox. James J 1968. The Rotinese: A study of the social organisation of an eastern Indonesian people. PhD Diss. University of Oxford.
49. Fox, Helen Elizabeth 2002. Damage from blast fishing and ecological factors influencing coral reef recovery in Indonesia [Komodo National Park] PhD Thesis – University of California, Berkeley,
50. Fowler, Cynthia Twyford 1999. The creolization of natives and exotics: the changing symbolic and functional character of culture and agriculture in Kodi, West Sumba (Indonesia). PhD Diss. Anthropology, University of Hawaii
51. Francillon, Gerard 1967. Some matriarchic aspects of the social structure of the southern Tetun of middle Timor. PhD Diss. Anthropology Australian National University.
52. Fricke, Hanna 2019. Traces of language contact : the Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia. Dissertation Leiden University.
53. Fuah, Asnath Maria 1995. A study of small livestock production systems in West Timor. PhD Thesis – University of Queensland
54. de Fretes, Yance 1996. Assessing the necessary width of buff zones: an ecological study in Ruteng strict nature reserve, Flores, Indonesia.  PhD Diss. Forestry, The University of British Columbia.
55. Glover, Ian 1972. Excavations in Timor:  A study of economic change and cultural continuity in prehistory. PhD Diss. Australian National University.
56. Gordon, J. 1975 The Manggarai: Economic and social transformation in an eastern Indonesian society. Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge MA.
57. Graham, Penelope 1991. To follow the blood : the path of life in a domain of Eastern Flores, Indonesia. Thesis (Ph.D.)–Australian National University
58. Haan, Johnson Welem 2001. The grammar of Adang : a Papuan language spoken on the Island of Alor, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. PhD diss., University of Sydney
59. Hajar, Siti (2017). The Complexities of Implementing Classroom-Based Action Research in a Remote School in Indonesia PhD Diss., School of Education, The University of Queensland. doi:10.14264/uql.2018.50
60. Haning, Jermi 2019. The Applicability of Customary Fisheries Management Principles for Managing Large-Scale Marine Areas: Rote Island, Indonesia. PhD Dissertation, Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand.
61. Hobgen, Sarah Elizabeth (2015). Understanding sediment sources to inform catchment management in data-poor regions : an example from Sumba, eastern Indonesia. PhD diss., Charles Darwin University.
62. Hoskins, Janet. 1984. “Spirit Worship and Feasting in Kodi, West Sumba: Paths to Riches and Renown”. PhD diss., Harvard University.
63. Hutagalung, Stella Aleida 2015. Being Muslim in a Christian Town: Variety, Practices and Renewal. PhD Diss. Anthropology Australian National University
64. Jaiteh, Vanessa 2017. Sharks are important, but so is rice”: Opportunities and challenges for shark fisheries management and livelihoods in eastern Indonesia. PhD diss., Murdoch University.
65. Johnston, Lois Ann 2006. Identifying the People of Tonggo, Flores, Eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. Department of Anthropology, Edmonton, Alberta.
66. Kaye, Stephen Joseph 1990. The structure of Eastern Indonesia: An approach via gravity and other geophysical methods [West Timor]. University of London, University College London
67. Keane, Edward Webb Jr. 1990. The social life of representations: Ritual speech and exchange in Anakalang Sumba, eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. Anthropology University of Chicago.
68. Kenyon, C. S. 1974. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Late Miocene to Quaternary Deposits of Timor. Ph. D. Thesis, University of London
69. Kiling, Indra Yohanes. The development of a best practice model to support young children with disabilities affected by environmental risk factors in West Timor, Indonesia. Thesis (Ph.D.) — University of Adelaide, School of Psychology.
70. Klaas, Dua Kudushana Singgih Yejezkial 2019. Assessing the sustainability of groundwater resources in a tropical karstic island (Rote Island, Indonesia) – PhD, Thesis, Swinburne University of Technology.
71. Klamer, Margaretha AF. Kambera : a language of eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam
72. Klinken, Catharina Lumien Van. 1997. A grammar of the Fehan dialect of Tetun, an Austronesian language of West Timor. PhD Diss. Australian National University.
73. Kolimon, Mery, 2008. A Theology of Empowerment. Reflections from A West Timorese Perspective. Protestant Theological University Kampen.
74. Krentel, Alison 2008. Why do individuals comply with mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis? A case study from Alor district, Indonesia, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
75. Kroon, Yosep Bisara 2016. A grammar of Solor – Lamaholot: a language of Flores, Eastern Indonesia. PhD diss. University of Adelaide.
76. Kuipers, Joel 1982. Weyewa ritual speech : study of language and ceremonial interaction in eastern Indonesi. Ph.D Diss. Yale University
77. Lee, Justine. 1995. Participation and pressure in the Mist Kingdom of Sumba : a local NGO’s approach to tree-planting. PhD Diss. University of Adelaide
78. Leslie, Edwina Elizabeth Crompton. 2013. Pig movements across eastern Indonesia and associated risk of classical swine fever transmission. PhD Diss. University of Sydney
79. Lewis, E. Douglas 1988. People of the source; The social and ceremonial order of Tana Wai Brama on Flores. PhD Diss. Anthropology Australian National University.
80. Li, Dominggus Elcid 2014. Silent suffering: the corporatist compromises and East Timorese camps after 1999.  Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham.
81. Ling, Hannah Jane 2018. Approaches to manganese mining in West Timor, Indonesia: Perspectives, values, beliefs and sustainability. PhD Thesis, Charles Darwin University.
82. Liu, Saryakus Paulus 2016. Kupang: Social Adaptability and Vulnerability across an urban rural continuum in West Timor. PhD diss. The Australian National University
83. Listya, A. R. 2018. The Conceptualization and Sustainability of Rotenese Gong Music, Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Otago.
84. Lundberg, Anita Mechelle 2000. LAMALERAland: Archetypal tales of whales and whale hunters. PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales.
85. Lutz, Nancy Melissa 1986. Authoritative discourse : language and ideology in Adonara, East Indonesia. PhD diss. University of California, Berkeley.
86. Maku, Petrus 1967. Missionary Activities in the Present Social Situation in Flores, Indonesia: Towards Religious and Psychosocial Integration o f a Young Church. PhD thesis – Gregorian University, Rome
87. Malo Bulu, Petrus (2017) The Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Chickens in Poultry From West Timor, Indonesia. Professional Doctorate thesis, Murdoch University.
88. Mahirta 2006. Human occupation on Rote and Sawu Islands, Nusa Tenggara Timur. PhD Diss. Australian National University
89. Mann, Tom 1996. Population movements, ethnicity and resource management in West Timor. PhD Diss. University of Adelaide.
90. Meak-Grün, Salinka 2011.Von der geographischen Analyse über die Bestandsaufnahme der anzutreffenden Krankheiten und der Anwendung traditioneller Medizin zu einem geomedizinischen Informationssystem am Beispiel einer Bergregion im Kabupaten Sikka (Insel Flores, Indonesien). PhD Dissertation, University of Mainz.
91. McWilliam, Andrew R 1989.Narrating the gate and the path: place and precedence in South West Timor. PhD Diss. Anthropology, Australian National University
92. Mella, Welhelmus Isak Imanuel 2003. Genesis and Fertility of Alfisols and Mollisols formed on Raised Coral Reef in West Timor, Indonesia. PhD diss. Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan.
93. Metzner, Joachim 1979. Agriculture and population pressure in Sikka/Flores contribution to the study of the stability of agricultural systems in the wet-and-dry tropics. Post-doct Thesis (Habil.) University of Heidelberg. [Published as ANU Monograph)
94. Mitchell, Istutiah Gunawan 1981. Hierarchy and balance [microform] : a study of Wanokaka social organization / Instutiah. PhD diss. Monash University
95. Modh, Sandra (2012). Lamaholot of East Flores: a study of a boundary community. DPhil. University of Oxford.
96. Moeliono, Moira M.M. 2000. The Drums of rural land tenure and the making of place in Manggarai, West Flores, Indonesia. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Hawaii
97. Molnar, Andrea Katalin 1994. The grandchildren of the Ga’e ancestors : the Hoga Sara of Ngada in West-Central Flores. PhD Diss. Australian National University.
98. Muda, Hubertus 1986. The supreme being of the Ngadha people in Flores (Indonesia): Its transcendence and immanence. PhD thesis – Pontifical Gregorian University.
99. Mudita, Wayan I. (2013). Community biosecurity in West Timor, Indonesia : the role of local communities and governments in managing Huanglongbing and other diseases and pests of citrus. PhD diss., Charles Darwin University.
100. Munasri 2013. Early cretaceous radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Kolbano area, West Timor, Indonesia. Thesis Ph. D. in Science University of Tsukuba
101. Nagaya, Naonori 2013. The Lamaholot Language of Eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. Rice University.
102. Nakagawa, Satoshi 1989. The social organization of the Endenese of Central Flores, PhD Diss. Australian National University.
103. Ndoen, Ermi M. L 2010. Environmental factors and an eco-epidemiological model of malaria in Indonesia, PhD Diss. Griffith University.
104. Ndoen, Marthen L. 2000. Migrants and entrepreneurial activities in peripheral Indonesia. PhD Diss. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
105. Neonbasu, Gregor 2005. We seek our roots: oral tradition in Biboki, West Timor PhD Diss. Anthropology, Australian National University
106. Ngongo, Yohanis (2011). The political ecology of agricultural development in West Timor, Indonesia PhD Thesis, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland.
107. Nicolspeyer, Martha Margaretha 1940. De sociale structuur van een Aloreesche bevolkingsgroep. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.
108. Noach-Patty, Maria Agustina 1995. Gender, development and social change in Rote, eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. University of Hull.
109. Nolin, David. 2008. Food-sharing networks in Lamalera, Indonesia: Tests of adaptive hypotheses. PhD thesis. University of Washington.
110. Nugroho, Stefani Haning Swarati 2013. On Imaging a Nation: Construction of “Indonesia” in Jakarta, Kupang and Banda Aceh. PhD Thesis, National University of Singapore.
111. Paauw, Scott 2009.The Malay Contact Varieties of Eastern Indonesia : a Typological Comparison. Ph. D. State University of New York at Buffalo.
112. Pangastuti, Yulida 2020. Expansion of Early Childhood Education in Indonesia: Finding Voices, Telling Stories. [Belu] PhD Thesis, The University of Auckland
113. Pardosi, Jerico Franciscus 2016. Early-age health, survival and inequity issues in a rural eastern district of Indonesia [Ende]. PhD Thesis, Macquarie University Australia.
114. Pellu, Lintje H. 2008. A domain united, a domain divided : an ethnographic study of social relations and social change among the people of Landu, East Rote, Eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. Anthropology, Australian National University.
115. Prior, John Mansford. 1987. “Church and Marriage in an Indonesian Village: A Study of Customary and Church Marriage among the Ata Lio of Central Flores, Indonesia, as a Paradigm of the Ecclesial Interrelationship between Village and Institutional Catholicism.” Ph.D diss. University of Birmingham.
116. Qu, Ding-Chuang 2009. Late quaternary climate in the Indo-Pacific warm pool reconstructed from the raised coral reefs of Sumba, Indonesia. PhD Diss. Australian National University.
117. Ranimpi, Yulius Yusak 2016. Mental Health and Poverty in Binaus Village, West Timor, East Nusa Tenggara-Indonesia: An Indigenous Psychology Perspective.
118. Raya, Umbu 2019. Essays on Inequality of Opportunities and Development Outcomes in Indonesia. PhD, Australian National University.
119. Rose, Michael. 2017. Between Kase and Meto. PhD Diss. Anthropology, Australian National University.
120. Rose, Graham. 1995. Late Triassic and Early Jurassic radiolarians from Timor, eastern Indonesia [West Timor] PhD Thesis, University College London – University of London.
121. Rothe, Elvira. 2004. Wulla Poddu Bitterer Monat, Monat der Tabus, Monat des Heiligen, Monat des Neuen Jahres in Loli in der Siedlung Tarung-Waitabar, Amtsbezirk der Stadt Waikabubak in Loli, Regierungsbezirk Westsumba, Provinz Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesien. PhD Diss. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Münche.
122. Rothe, Manuel 2016. Pro-poor growth and the conversion of the economic habitus – A case study of the tourism sector in Flores, Indonesia. PhD Thesis – University of St. Gallen
123. Sandidge, Rebecca 2018. The community ecology of ants (Formicidae) in Indonesian grasslands with special focus on the tropical fire ant, Solenopsis geminata. PhD Thesis, UC Berkeley.
124. Schulte-Nordholt, H G 1966. Het politieke systeem van de Atoni van Timor. PhD Diss. University of Amsterdam.
125. Olaf H Smedal 1994. Making place: houses, lands, and relationships among Ngadha, Central Flores. PhD thesis, University of Oslo.
126. Sopaheluwakan, Jan. 1990. Ophiolite obduction in the Mutis Complex, Timor, eastern Indonesia : an example of inverted, isobaric, medium-high pressure metamorphism. PhD Diss. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
127. Stacey, Natasha E. 1999. Boats to burn: Bajo fishing activity in the Australian fishing zone. PhD Thesis, Northern Territory University.
128. Sudarmadi, Tular 2014. Between colonial legacies and grassroots movements:: exploring cultural heritage practice in the Ngadha and Manggarai Region of Flores. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
129. Tamelan, Thersia 2021. A grammar of Dela: an Austronesian language of Rote, eastern Indonesia. PhD Thesis, Australian National University
130. Tanesab, Julius (2018) The effect of dust on the performance of solar photovoltaic module: Case studies in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia and Perth, Western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
131. Tate, Garreth 2014. Structural deformation, exhumation and uplift of the Timor fold-thrust belt. PhD dissertation, Princeton University.
132. Tidey, Silvia. 2012. Performing the state everyday  practices corruption and reciprocity in middle indonesian civil service. PhD Diss. University of  Amsterdam
133. Titu Eki, Ayub, 2002. International labour emigration from Eastern Flores Indonesia to Sabah Malaysia : a study of patterns, causes and consequences. PhD Diss. Univerisity of Adelaide.
134. Twikromo, Y. Argo 2008. The local elite and the appropriation of modernity : a case in East Sumba, Indonesia. Ph. D. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
135. Yvonne Paula Tibuludji 2004. The assessment of quality of antenatal care services in Timor Tengah Selatan district, Nusa Tenggara Timur province, Indonesia. PhD Thesis – University of Queensland
136. Therik, Gerzon Tom 1995. Wehali: the four corner land : the cosmology and traditions of a Timorese ritual centre
137. Tjoe, Yenny 2017. Sustaining livelihoods: an analysis of dryland communities in West Timor, Indonesia. PhD Diss. Griffith University.
138. Tjitra, Emiliana 2001. Improving the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in eastern Indonesia. Phd diss. Northern Territory University
139. Elvis Albertus Bin Toni 2018. Emotions in Adonara-Lamaholot. PhD Thesis, Nanyang Technological University.
140. Tule, Philipus 2001. Longing for the house of God, dwelling in the house of the ancestors : local belief, Christianity and Islam among the Kéo of Central Flores. PhD Diss. Anthropology, Australian National University
141. Vel, Jacqueline 1994. The Uma-economy : indigenous economics and development work in Lawonda, Sumba (Eastern-Indonesia), PhD Diss.  Wageningen University.
142. Viola, Maria Alice Marques 2013. A “Portuguese” historical presence in Larantuka (16th and 17th centuries) and its implications in contemporary times. PhD in Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
143. Vischer, Michael P. 1992. Children of the black patola stone : origin structures in a domain on Palu’e Island (Eastern Indonesia), PhD Diss. Australian National University.
144. Walker, Alan Trevor  1980. Sawu: a language of Eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. Anthropology, Australian National University
145. Wejak, Justin Laba 2017. Secular, religious and supernatural: an Eastern Indonesian Catholic experience of fear (autoethnographic reflections on the reading of a New Order-era propaganda text) [A focus on Lamaholot] PhD Diss. University of Melbourne.
146. Wellfelt, Emilie 2016. Historyscapes in Alor: Approaching indigenous history in Eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. Linnaeus University
147. Wera, Ewaldus 2017. Socio-economic modelling of rabies control in Flores Island, Indonesia. PhD Diss. Wageningen University.
148. Widayanti, A. W. (2019). Understanding health-seeking behaviours of people in Indonesia; and developing, piloting, and evaluating a culturally appropriate intervention for people with diabetes [In West Sumatra and NTT] (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy). University of Otago.
149. Willemsen, M.A.T. 2006. Een Pionier op Flores. Jilis Verheijen 1908-1997: Missionaris en onderzoeker [A Pioneer on Flores. Jillis Verheijen 1908-1997: Missionary and researcher]. PhD Diss. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
150. Williams, Catharina Purwani 2003. Maiden voyages : eastern Indonesian women on the move. PhD thesis, Australian National University, Canberra.
151. Williams, Nicholas Jay 2016. Place Reference and Location Formulation in Kula Conversation. Degree: PhD, Linguistics, University of Colorado.
152. Windschuttel, Glenn Alan. Object verbs: link from Timor-Alor-Pantar to Trans-New-Guinea: an exploration of their typological and historical implications. Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Newcastle.
153. Wiria, Aprilianto Eddy 2013. Helminth infections on Flores Island, Indonesia : associations with communicable and non-communicable diseases. Doctoral Thesis, Leiden University

*Thanks to P. Liu, J. Haning, S. Fanggidae, T. Tamelan for their suggestion for improvement.

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List of thesis before 1958:

Ormeling FJ 1955. The Timor problem : a geographical interpretation of an underdeveloped island. PhD Thesis University of Indonesia

West, Frank Peter van. Geological investigations in the Miomffo region (Netherlands Timor) / Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitg. Mij. 1941

Drescher, F.,1921. Eruptivgesteine der Insel Flores [Bahasa: Gunung api di Flores]. PhD thesis, Stein, Aargau.