Bhirawa Anoraga, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Managing Editor of Islamic Studies Review
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Dr. Anoraga serves as a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, UIII. He earned his PhD from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra. His doctoral thesis, titled “New Media and Social Engagement: The Promotion of Civic Pluralism in Contemporary Indonesia,” delves into the impact of online philanthropy on inter-faith engagement in digitalizing Indonesia. Dr. Anoraga also holds a Master’s degree in Islamic Finance from Durham University.
Dr. Anoraga has contributed to various journals, including Asiascape: Digital Asia, Indonesia and the Malay World, Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, and the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies.
His research interests encompass digital Islam, Islamic economy and philanthropy, as well as youth, online movements, and inter-faith engagement. He is currently developing a concentration on Digital Islam and DISC (Digital Islam Community), a research community at UIII focused on digital Islam and digital humanities. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. Anoraga has also been active in providing advisory services on Islamic philanthropy and socio-economic development through the Social Trust Fund at UIN Jakarta.
Selected Works
- Umar, Nasaruddin. Gender Equality Argument: A Qur’anic Perspective. Translated by Bhirawa Anoraga. Depok: UIII Press, 2025.
- Fauzia, Amelia, Bhirawa Anoraga, and Sri Hidayati. Budaya Filantropi Indonesia: Rekonstruksi untuk Membangun Ekosistem Filantropi yang Berkelanjutan. Jakarta: Perhimpunan Filantropi Indonesia, 2025.
- Fauzia, Amelia, Sri Hidayati, Endi Aulia Garadian, and Bhirawa Anoraga. Towards action: Islamic philanthropy for social justice in Indonesia. Jakarta: Social Trust Fund (STF) UIN Jakarta, 2022.
- Anoraga, Bhirawa, and Wahyudi Akmaliah. “Decolonizing Social Sciences and Humanities: Islamic and Non-Western Perspectives.” Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies, 10(1), 122-130, 2025.
- Anoraga, Bhirawa, and Mishbah Khoiruddin Zuhri. “The (Im) possible Umma? Multiple Realities and Multiple Identities of Indonesian Muslims in Online Philanthropy.” Asiascape: Digital Asia 11, no. 3 (2024): 215-245. https://brill.com/view/journals/dias/11/3/article-p215_4.xml
- Anoraga, Bhirawa. “A decade of charitable crowdfunding and its impacts on the social justice trajectory of Islamic philanthropy in Indonesia.” Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 17.1 (2024): 5-24. https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/7956
- Anoraga, Bhirawa. “The Future of Artificial Intelligence in/and of Islam: A View from Muslim Southeast Asia.” Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 9, no. 1 (2024): 115-123. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/939076/summary
- Anoraga, Bhirawa, and Minako Sakai. “From pemuda to remaja: Millennials reproducing civic nationalism in post-New Order Indonesia.” Indonesia and the Malay World 51.150 (2023): 209-230. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13639811.2023.2225928?casa_token=ewD11jIrf3MAAAAA:N8VuB9OYsJNM_r9FLj5zt-K159L1fGWsSWH_hLbHpuBkKaS2eOJy8hPjh98GnByxZVvSsYYs-vyncQ
- Anoraga, Bhirawa. “Crowdfunding for inter-faith peace: youth, networked social movement, and Muslim philanthropy NGOs in contemporary Indonesia.” Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies 13.2 (2023): 307-337. https://ijims.iainsalatiga.ac.id/index.php/ijims/article/view/9190
- Sakai, Minako, and Bhirawa Anoraga. “Education, digital enterprise and Islam in the Indonesian modern embedded economy.” In Muslim Women in the Economy, pp. 214-228. Routledge, 2020.
Anoraga, Bhirawa. New Media and Social Engagement: The Promotion of Civic Pluralism in Contemporary Indonesia. PhD diss., UNSW Sydney, 2020.
Anoraga, Bhirawa. Agency Problems in Financing: The Case of Islamic Cooperatives (BMT) in Indonesia. Thesis, Durham University, 2015.
- Anoraga, Bhirawa. “F(AI)th in the Future: The Intersection of AI and Islam in Southeast Asia.” The Platform: Current Muslim Affairs (2024). https://platform.ilke.org.tr/analyze/f-ai-th-in-the-future-the-intersection-of-ai-and-islam-in-southeast-asia