Professor Tim Lindsey AO FAHA FAIIA

Professor Tim Lindsey AO FAHA FAIIA.

Professor Tim Lindsey AO FAHA FAIIA is Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society in the Law School at the University of Melbourne.

Tim was the longest-serving member of DFAT’s Australia Indonesia Institute (19 years), and its Chair from 2008 until 2016. In that role, he led the implementation of a series of innovative programs designed to strengthen people-to-people relations between the two countries.

Tim began studying Indonesian at school. Inspired by a homestay in Purwokerto when he was 14, he went on to complete undergraduate degrees in law and two honours degrees in arts before undertaking a PhD in Indonesian studies. Since then he has supervised more than 40 PhD students, most of them working on Indonesia, many of whom have since won appointment to universities around the world, including in Australia and Indonesia.

Tim’s more than 100 publications include Indonesia: Law and Society; Islam, Law and the State in Southeast Asia (three volumes); The Indonesian Constitution; Drugs Law and Practice in Southeast Asia; and Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia. With Professor Simon Butt, he wrote Indonesian Law, the first analytical compendium of Indonesian law. In 2018, Tim and Dave McRae edited a volume of essays by Indonesians and Australians on the bilateral relationship, Strangers Next Door: Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century. Tim is also a founder and an Executive Editor of The Australian Journal of Asian Law.

Tim is also a member of the Victorian Bar, and for many years has been involved in advising governments, courts, aid agencies, law enforcement officials and lawyers about Indonesia’s complex legal system.