Saskia E. Wieringa is an honorary Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam. She is also the co-founder and presently secretary of the Kartini Asia Network. Since the late 1970s, she has done research on women’s movements, sexual politics, and same-sex relations in many parts of the world, particularly in Indonesia. She chairs the International People's Tribunal on the 1965 Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia and co-organized the Tribunal on that topic, held in November 2015.
She wrote and (co-) edited more than 30 books and over 200 articles. The latest books include: (2012 co-edited with Nursyahbani Katjasungkana) The Future of Asian Feminisms; (2013 co-edited with Horacio Sivori) Sexual Politics in the Global South, and (2013, co-edited with Maznah Mohamad) Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia: Concept, Law and Process. Sussex Academic Publishers; Heteronormativity in Asia (2015 Sussex Academic Press). Saskia Wieringa received various awards for her scholarly work. Her recent research projects focus on sexual relations in historical perspective in Indonesia and on the post-1965 violence in East Java. Forthcoming is 'Imagined evil: Propaganda and the Indonesian genocide', Routledge.