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Professor Greg Barton

Brief Biodata
Postgraduate Supervision
Publications
Research Grants
Recent Seminars and Public Speaking

Tel: +61 3 9903 1540
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Email: Greg.Barton@arts.monash.edu.au
Room H5.30 (Level 5, Building H)
Building H, Caulfield Campus

Biodata Overview

Dr Greg Barton joined Monash University as the Herb Feith Research Professor for the Study of Indonesia in January 2007, based in the school of Political and Social Inquiry (PSI) in the Faculty of Arts. Prior to that he had worked for a year as an Associate Professor at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he continues to have an association as adjunct professor teaching in human security and counter-terrorism courses in Honolulu and in Asia. Before that he was an Associate Professor at Deakin University where had worked since 1993. There he developed and taught courses in the Politics stream on Political Leadership, Global Islamic Politics, and Society and Culture in Contemporary Asia, and earlier, in the Religious Studies stream, on Islam and Christianity. At Monash he teaches Islam and Modernity; Political Islam; Islam in Turkey and Indonesia; and Interfaith relations in the 21st Century in the newly developed Masters of Islamic Studies.

At Monash Greg is Acting Director of the Centre for Islam and the Modern World and Deputy UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific. For the past twenty years Greg has been active in inter-faith dialogue initiatives and has a deep commitment to building understanding of Islam and Muslim society. The central axis of his research interests is the way in which religious thought, individual believers and religious communities respond to modernity and to the modern nation state.

His work on Indonesia politics and society, especially of the role of Islam as both a constructive and a disruptive force is well known. Over the last six years he has commenced a comparative study of progressive Islamic thought in Turkey and Indonesia and, more recently, is extending this comparative study to India. He has a strong general interest in comparative international politics.

Greg also has a general interest in security studies and human security and a particular interest in counter-terrorism. He is an active member of the Global Terrorism Research Centre (GTReC) at Monash and continues to research Jemaah Islamiyah and other radical Islamist movements in Southeast Asia. He is involved in teaching several counter-terrorism courses each year at the Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu and with other institutions and agencies. (In August 2009, for example, he taught in one week intensive counter-terrorism course with APCSS in Phnom Penh; in July he designed and was the sole teacher for an intensive winter school course with the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) at the University of Sydney; in May he taught in a Comprehensive Security Responses to Counter Terrorism course with APCSS in Honolulu and in March he taught in a Terrorism: International Political and Social Perspectives (TIPSP) course in Canberra; on September 21 he spoke in two panels ‘examining the future of the Asia-Pacific’ briefing the office of the commander and senior leadership of the US Pacific Command (PACOM) in Honolulu and on September 23 he participated at a ‘Defense-Policy Trends in Transnational Terrorism Workshop’, in Virginia, for the Office of Secretary of Defense).

Researching his biography of Abdurrahman Wahid through the years of reformasi, post-Suharto election campaigning, and the rise and fall of the Wahid presidency, and subsequent research through the Yudhoyono presidency, afforded him a unique perspective from which to observe and analyse Indonesia’s political culture. He continues to research and write about Indonesia’s political culture.

His PhD thesis at Monash in the early 1990s examined the emergence of liberal Islamic thought in the 1970s and 80s in the political context of the Suharto regime; and the social and political consequences of the civil society activism that it gave rise to. In particular it examined the thought and activism of Abdurrahman Wahid, Nurcholish Madjid and Djohan Effendi and anticipated their contribution to democratic transition. This laid the foundations for his later studies of the Wahid presidency and of Islam and civil society. The complete dissertation was published in Indonesian with the assistance of the Ford Foundation (Gagasan Islam Liberal…: [Liberal Islamic Thought: A study of the writing of Nurcholish Madjid, Djohan Effendi, Ahmad Wahid and Abdurrahman Wahid], 1999, 609 pp - and a new edition is currently being prepared for publication). The book demonstrated a link between progressive, neo-modernist Islamic thought and political liberalism in Indonesia, and its typology of ‘Islamic liberalism’ has proven broadly influential.

Greg’s research has been previously funded by three Australian Research Council Large Grants. Details of his current ARC Linkage and Discovery grants - on traditional Islam in Indonesia; on Indonesian political culture; and on radicalisation, counter-radicalisation and deradicalisation - are listed below. This research has involved more than 50 visits to Indonesia were he has worked extensively with researchers from Australia the USA, France and Indonesia. He has developed internationally recognised expertise in Islam, Islamic social movements, civil society, politics and Islamist radicalism in Southeast Asia.

His biography of Abdurrahman Wahid (2002, Abdurrahman Wahid, Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: a view from the inside, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press) was published in 2002 (and translated and published in Indonesian in 2003). His book: Indonesia’s Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam, was published in 2004 by UNSW Press (and by Singapore University Press in 2005).

He is currently working on two other book projects: Progressive Islamic thought and social movements in Indonesia and Turkey (which returns to some of the themes and material he first addressed in his published PhD thesis Gagasan Islam Liberal); and: Islam’s Other Nation: a fresh look at Indonesia. For the past twenty years Greg has been active in inter-faith dialogue initiatives and has a deep commitment to building understanding of Islam and Muslim society.

Postgraduate Supervision

PhD Candidates currently being supervised

Student	Topic	Supervisor/s
PhD
Virginie Andre	Islam, ethnicity and the drivers of social conflict in southern Thailand	Dr Peter Lentini / Prof. Greg Barton
Jan Fermelis	A qualitative investigation of evolving intercultural hybridism: Business communication strategies and adaptations by Australian expatriates in Shanghai	Prof Marika Vicziany / Prof Greg Barton
Jonathan Samuel Lyons	War without End? A Social Historiography of 1000 Years of Anti-Islam Discourse	Prof.Emeritus Gary Bouma / Prof Greg Barton
Ela Ogru	A comparative study of Horn of Africa and Turkish Muslim migrant experiences in Australia	Prof Greg Barton / Dr Peter Lentini
Joshua Roose	Australian born Muslims challenging a dominant negative discourse	Prof Greg Barton / Dr Dharma Arunachalam / Dr Peter Lentini
Badrus Sholeh	Jemaah Islamiyah’s community of support in Indonesia	Prof. Greg Barton
Sven Alexander Schottmann	The 'Islamic State' and the 'New Malays': Islam in the politics of Mahathir Mohamad	Dr Julian Millie / Prof Marika Vicziany / Prof Greg Barton
David Tittensor	New Islamic philanthropy and the vision of social development through self-development: a study of the Gülen Movement's program of schools and colleges in Turkey and Central Asia.	Prof Greg Barton / Dr Peter Lentini
Rachel Woodlock	Australian-born Muslims sense of self	Prof.Emeritus Gary Bouma / Prof Greg Barton
Mokhammad Yahya	Islamic Revivalism/Fundamentalism and Political Islam in Indonesia	Prof Greg Barton / Dr Julian Millie

MA Candidates currently being supervised

Student	Topic	Supervisor/s
MA
Linda Hindasyah	"Syariat Islam, Conflict, and Religious Violence in Indonesia."	Prof Greg Barton / Dr Julian Millie
Derya Akguner	The source of conflict, conflict resolution techniques and peace with specific focus on Turkey and Rum-orthodox and Jewish Religion Minority Group	Prof Greg Barton / Dr Peter Lentini

Honours Candidates (2009)

Student	Topic
Honours
Sureyya Cicek (MA minor dissertation, honours equivalent)	The Philanthropic Understanding of the Gülen Movement In comparison with that of the Jesuits: A comparison of the educational philosophy of the movement associated with Fethullah Gülen and that of the Jesuit- Education system
Arthur George David Derham Moore	The ‘normalization’ of Japanese defence policy
Stephanie Morley	Radical Islamist activism and social movements in Indonesia
Alexandra Phelan	Islamist militantism radicalisation and deradicalisation in Southeast Asia
Ashley Sattler	Christian Zionism, eschatology and the religious right in America

Refereed Publications

Sole-authored Academic Books

Barton, Greg (2004) Indonesia's Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and radical Islamism, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2004. [also published in 2005 as: Barton, Greg (2005) Jemaah Islamiyah: Radical Islamism in Indonesia, Singapore: Singapore University Press.]
Barton, Greg 2003 Gus Dur: the Authorized Biography of Abdurrahman Wahid, Yogyakarta: LKiS, pp. 516. [Note: this 2003 book is the Indonesia language version of: Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President a view from inside].
Barton, Greg (2002) Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President – a view from the inside, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 414.
Barton, Greg (1999) Gagasan Islam Liberal: Telaah terhadap Tulisan-tulisan Nurcholish Madjid, Djohan Effendi, Ahmad Wahib dan Abdurrahman Wahid, 1968-80, [Liberal Islamic Thought: A study of the writing of Nurcholish Madjid, Djohan Effendi, Ahmad Wahid and Abdurrahman Wahid] Jakarta: Paramadina, 609 pp.

Edited Academic Books

Barton, Greg and Fealy, Greg (eds) (1996) Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia, Clayton: Monash Asia Institute.
Barton, Greg and Kingsbury, Damien (eds) (1994) Difference and Tolerance: Human Rights Issues in Southeast Asia, Geelong: Deakin University Press.

Chapters in edited books

Barton, Greg (2009) 'The historical development of Jihadi Islamist thought in Indonesia', Scott Helfstein (ed.) Radical Islamic Ideology in Southeast Asia, New York: The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (www.ctc.usma.edu/publications/Southeast%20Asia%20Report.pdf)
Barton, Greg (2009) ‘Indonesia’ in Barry Rubin (ed.) Guide to Islamist Movements,, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Barton, Greg (2010) In Print, ‘Chapter 7: Progressive Islamic Thought and Civil Society in Turkey and Indonesia’, in Dale Eickleman (ed.) Islam in the Modern World: The Gülen Movement, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Barton, Greg (2008) ‘Indonesia’s Year of Living Normally: Taking the Long View on Indonesia’s Progress, in Daljit Singh and Tin Maung Maung Than (eds) Southeast Asia Affairs 2008, Singapore: ISEAS.
Barton, Greg (2007) "Preaching by example and learning for life: understanding the Gulen hizmet in the global context of religious philanthropy and civil religion", in IhsanYilmaz et. al. (eds.) Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gulen Movement, International Refereed Conference Proceedings, London, UK 25-27 October 2007, pp. 650-62
Barton, Greg (2006) "Turkey's Gulen hizmet and Indonesia's neo-modernist NGOs; remarkable examples of progressive Islamic thought and civil society activism in the Muslim world", in Fethi Mansouri and Shahram Akbarzadeh (eds), Political Islam and Human Security, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, p.140-160
Barton, Greg (2006) "Islam and Democratic Transition in Indonesia", chapter 9, in Deborah A. Brown and Tun-jen Cheng (eds), Religious Organizations and Democratization: Case Studies from Contemporary Asia, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 221-41.
Barton, Greg (2006) 'Australia and Globalised Islam', in Fethi Mansouri (ed.) Australia and the Middle East: A Frontline Relationship, London/New York: IB Tauris Publishers, pp. 101-122.
Barton, Greg (2005) "Making sense of Jemaah Islamiyah terrorism and radical Islamism in Indonesia" in Shahram Akbarzadeh and Samina Yasmeen (eds), Islam and the West: reflections from Australia, UNSW Press, pp. 114-31.
Barton, Greg (2005) "Islam, Islamism and politics in Indonesia", chapter 3 in Damien Kingsbury (ed.) Violence in Between: Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia, Singapore and Melbourne: ISEAS and Monash Asia Institute, pp. 75-103.
Barton, Greg 2003a "The Wahid Presidency in Context: Regime Change, Inflated Expectations, Islam and the Promise of Democracy", in Thang D. Nguyen and Frank-Jurgen Richter (eds), Indonesia Matters: Diversity, Unity, and Stability in Fragile Times, Singapore: Times Editions, pp. 28-38.
Barton, Greg 2003b "Pengantar: Islam, Islamism dan Politik di Indonesia" in Zainal Abidin Amir, Peta Islam Politik Pasca-Soeharto, Jakarta: LP3ES, pp. xv-xxxiii. ["Introduction: Islam, Islamism and Politics in Indonesia" in Zainal Abidin Amir, A Map of Islamic Politics in the Post-Soeharto Era]
Barton, Greg, 2002a 'Islam, politics and regime change in Wahid's Indonesia' in Julian M. Weiss (ed) Tigers' Roar: Asia's Recovery And Its Impact, New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Barton, Greg 2002b 'Islam and Politics in the New Indonesia', in Jason F Issacson and Colin Rubenstein (eds) Islam in Asia: Changing Political Realities, New Jersey, Transaction Press, p. 1-94.
Barton, Greg 2002c 'Islam and Politics in Malaysia', in Jason F Issacson and Colin Rubenstein (eds) Islam in Asia: Changing Political Realities, New Jersey, Transaction Press, p. 95-164.
Barton, Greg 2001a 'The Prospects for Islam', in Grayson Lloyd and Shannon Smith (eds) Indonesia Today: Challenges of History, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, p. 244-255.
Barton, Greg 2001b 'President Wahid-a realist-idealist?', in Damien Kingsbury and Arief Budiman (eds), Indonesia: the Uncertain Transition, Bathurst, NSW: Crawford House Publishing, p. 312-28.
Barton, Greg 2001c 'Evaluating the Wahid presidency: A response to Marcus Mietzner's evaluation', in Damien Kingsbury and Arief Budiman (eds), Indonesia: the Uncertain Transition, Bathurst, NSW: Crawford House Publishing, p. 349-59.
Barton, Greg 2001d 'A fair measure - assessing President Wahid's first year as Indonesia embarks on the long road of regime-change,' in Damien Kingsbury (ed) The Abdurrahman Wahid Government's First Year: An Evaluation, Clayton: Monash Asia Institute, p. 33-55.
Barton, Greg 2000a 'Political and social change the case of Indonesia' in Andrew Vandenberg (ed.) Politics and Democracy, London: Macmillan.
Barton, Greg 2000b 'Abdurrahman Wahid dan Toleransi Keberagamaan' [Abdurrahman Wahid and religious tolerance'] in Ahmad Suaedy and Ulil Abshar Abdalla (eds), Gila Gus Dur: Wacana Pembaca Abdurrahman Wahid, Yogyakarta, LKiS, 2000, pp. 84-120.
Barton, Greg 1999 'Understanding Abdurrahman Wahid?', in M. Saleh Isre (ed.), Prisma Pemikiran Gus Dur, Yogyakarta: LKiS, pp. xx-xlv.
Barton, Greg 1997 The Origins of Islamic Liberalism in Indonesia and its Contribution to Democratisation', Democracy in Asia, New York, 1997: St Martins Press, pp. 427-51.
Barton, Greg 1996a The Liberal, Progressive Roots of Abdurrahman Wahid's Thought' in Greg Barton and Greg Fealy (eds) Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia, Clayton: Monash Asia Institute, pp. 190-226.
Barton, Greg1996b Islam, Pancasila and the Middle Path of Tawassuth: the thought of Achmad Siddiq' in Greg Barton and Greg Fealy (eds) Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia, Clayton: Monash Asia Institute, pp. 110-28.
Barton, Greg1994 'The impact of Islamic neo-Modernism on Indonesian Islamic thought: The emergence of a new pluralism', in David Bourchier and John Legge (eds) Indonesian Democracy: 1950s and 1990s, Clayton: Monash University, pp.143-150.
Barton, Greg 1991 The International Context of the Emergence of Islamic Neo Modernism in Indonesia', in M.C. Ricklefs (ed.) Islam in the Indonesian Social Context, Clayton: CSEAS Monash University, pp. 69-82.

Academic articles in refereed journals

Barton, Greg, 2010 [In Press] “Indonesia: Legitimacy, Secular Democracy and Islam”, in John Kane, Hui Chieh Loy and Haig Patapan (eds.) Politics and Policy Special Edition - In Search of Legitimacy, Wiley-Blackwell.
Greg Barton (2006) "A response to Ian Markham" in Conversations in Religion & Theology Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 87 - May 2006, pp. 92-7.
Barton, Greg (2005) "Thinking Out Loud: Islam, civil society and democracy in Indonesia", Democracy @large, Vol. 2, No. 1., Washington D.C.: IFES.
Barton, Greg and Rubenstein, Colin (2005) "Israel and Indonesia: A Relationship in Waiting, Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 2005, Volume 17, Numbers 1&2, pp. 157-170.
Barton, Greg (2001e) "Indonesia's Difficult Transition and President Abdurrahman Wahid", Pacifica Review: Peace, Security and Global Change, Vol. 13, No. 3, October 2001, p.273-81
(1999) with Andree Feillard, 'Nahdlatul Ulama, Abdurrahman Wahid and Reformation: What Does NU's Nov 1997 National Gathering Tell Us?', Studia Islamika, Vol 6, No 1, June 1999, pp.1-40.
(1997) 'Indonesia's Nurcholish Madjid and Abdurrahman Wahid as Intellectual Ulama: The Meeting of Islamic Traditionalism and Modernism in neo-Modernist thought', Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 8, No. 3, Oct 1997, pp. 323-350.
(1995) 'Neo-Modernism: a Vital Synthesis of Traditionalism and Modernism in Indonesian Islam', Studia Islamika, Vol 2 No 3 1995, pp.1-75.

Essays and other articles

Barton, Greg (2009) “Defuse their anger”, Herald Sun, Melbourne, 5 August 2009, p. 7.
Barton, Greg (2009) “Democracy in Indonesia (Comment)”, The Monthly, Melbourne, July 2009, No 47
Barton, Greg (2009) “A response to Rachel Sharon-Krespin’s ‘Fethullah Gulen’s Grand Ambition: Turkey’s Islamist Danger’”, Today’s Zaman, Istanbul, 10 February 2009
Barton, Greg (2007) "Fethullah Gülen: Contributions to Global Peace and the Inter-religious Dialogue" Address at the Official Opening Ceremony of the Fethullah Gulen Chair In The Study Of Islam & Muslim-Catholic Relations, held at the Australian Catholic University on 23 November 2007 (http://www.intercultural.org.au/events_2007/gulen_chair/index.htm)
Barton, Greg (2007) "What did we lose when we took Dr Haneef's visa away?
Countering terrorism means winning hearts and minds", Australian Policy Online, Comments and Analysis, 18 July 2007
http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=168027
Barton, Greg (2007) "The end of JI?", ABC News Opinion Tuesday 19 June 2007
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/19/1954984.htm
Akbarzadeh, Shahram and Barton, Greg (2007) "Islam: Fear and loathing diminishes us all"Australian Policy Online, Comments and Analysis, 6 March 2007
http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/comment_results.chtml?filename_num=140154
Barton, Greg (2006) "Slow Development for the Developing-8", The Diplomat, July 2006.
Barton, Greg (2005) "Civil Society and Islam: why Indonesia is different", Democracy at Large, Summer, 2005.
Barton, Greg (In Press) "Democracy and Islam in Indonesia", The Review, October 2005.
Barton, Greg (2005), "Peaceful Islam and Nurcholish's lasting legacy", Opinion, The Jakarta Post, 6 September 2005.
Barton, Greg (2005) "Gus Dur / Kiai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid", in The Encyclopedia of the Developing World, New York: Routledge Reference.
Barton, Greg (2005) "Islam and our common humanity in the wake of the Tsunami", Opinion, The Australian, 7 January 2005.
Barton, Greg (2004) "Sally Neighbour, In the Shadow of Swords: on the trail of terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia", (Sydney: Harper Collins, 2004), Book Review, Sydney Morning Herald, December 2004
Barton, Greg (2004), "No time for complacency", Opinion, Courier Mail, Saturday 18 December 2004.
Barton, Greg (2004) "So far, so good for the great hope of Indonesian Democracy", Opinion, The Age, Friday 22 October 2004
Barton, Greg (2004) "Banking on SBY's Moral Capital", The Canberra Times, Friday 24 September 2004
Barton, Greg (2004) "Good news, bad news, in the wake of the Jakarta bombing", The Courier Mail, Friday 17 September 2004
Barton, Greg (2004) "Could do better with more effort: Australia is too ignorant of Asia to make its mark there", Australian Financial Review, Education, Viewpoint, Monday 23 August, p. 36.
Barton, Greg (2004) "Indonesia: democratic uncertainty and the desire for change", The Review, August 2004
Barton, Greg (2004) "Good news as people power rears its head", Sydney Morning Herald, 7 July 2004.
Barton, Greg (2004) "Indonesia; two steps forward, one step backward", The Review, May 2004
Barton, Greg (2003) "Respect, Mere Tolerance and the Foundations for Genuine Muslim-Christian Dialog between Muslims and Christians", in Traveling Together Beyond Dialogue, Melbourne: Australian Intercultural Foundation.
Barton, Greg, "Indonesia's Megawati", The Diplomat, December 2003.
Barton, Greg, "Bali One Year On: Megawati in Denial Over Extent of JI", Opinion, Australian Financial Review, Monday, October 6, 2003.
Barton, Greg, "Megawati in denial over extent of JI", Australian Financial Review, October 5, 2003.
Barton, Greg, "The real risk is complacency", Opinion, Australian Financial Review, October 5, 2003.
Barton, Greg, "Taking stock of terrorism", Opinion, The Age, September 9, 2003.
Barton, Greg, "Bashir verdict beggars belief", Opinion, The Courier Mail (Brisbane, Australia), September 4, 2003.
Barton, Greg, "Bashir's slap over wrist shows some fish too big to fry", Opinion, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 4, 2003.
Barton, Greg, "Beware Amrozi's death sentence", Opinion, The Age, August 12, 2003.
Barton, Greg, "The good, bad and chilling news on Jemaah Islamiah", Opinion, The Age, August 8, 2003.
Barton, Greg, "2002 in Review - Indonesian Islam and the emergence of radical Jihadi Islamism", published in two parts in the Jawa Pos (Surabaya, Indonesia) in January 2003.
Barton, Greg, "Islam and democracy in Indonesia", Dissent, Issue 10 Summer 2002/2003.
Barton, Greg, "Islam, Islamism and the contest for power in post-Soeharto Indonesia", The Review, Melbourne, November 2002.
Barton, Greg, "Indonesia: No News Wasn't Good News", Eureka Street, November 2002,
Barton, Greg, "A deadly serious pipedream – Al Qaeda's vision for our region", Opinion, The Age, October 30, 2002 (also published in a slightly different form as "Call to arms that can't be ignored", in The Newcastle Herald, October 30, 2002).
Barton, Greg, "Where to now for Megawati?", ABC Online, website October 16, 2002
(Public Record http://abc.net.au/public/s701437.htm).
Barton, Greg, "Trouble in paradise – a portent of things to come?", Opinion, Sydney Morning Herald, October 15, 2002.
Barton, Greg, "In the shadow of the generals", Opinion, Sydney Morning Herald, October 14, 2002.
Barton, Greg, "Why Indonesia did nothing", Opinion, Australian Financial Review, October 14, 2002.
Barton, Greg, "Uncertainty the only certainty amid the blood", Opinion, The Age, Monday, October 14, 2002.
Barton, Greg, "Reform may have to wait in Megawati's Indonesia", The Review, October 2001.
Barton, Greg, "An Interview with President Abdurrahman Wahid", Inside Indonesia, No 63, July-September 2000.
Barton, Greg, "Decline and fall", Feature, Sydney Morning Herald, July 28, 2001.
Barton, Greg, "What now for Indonesia?", Opinion, The Herald Sun, July 24, 2001.
Barton, Greg, "Gus Dur visits Australia: a view from down under", Feature, The Herald Sun, June 29, 2001.
Barton, Greg, "Gus Dur: Not your average president", The Van Zorge Report, December 2000.
Barton, Greg, "President Wahid struggles with regime change", The Review, November 2000.
Barton, Greg, "People have yet to adjust after a regime change", Opinion, The Jakarta Post, June 30, 2000.
Barton, Greg, "Islam returns to centre stage in Indonesia and Malaysia", Asiaweek, June 2000.
Barton, Greg, "More than meets the eye: Indonesia's surprising new president", Greg Barton, Inside Indonesia, No 62, April-June 2000.
Barton, Greg, "Whatever happened to Megawati?", Feature, The Weekend Australian, January 22, 2000.
Barton, Greg, "Slow going on the reform path - Wahid's First 100 Days, Feature, The Weekend Australian, January 29, 2000.
Barton, Greg, "Who is Gus Dur? President Abdurrahman Wahid: Islamic Liberal", The Review, Melbourne, November 1999, p. 8-9.
Barton, Greg, "Maverick king-maker wins crown, Feature, The Weekend Australian, October 23, 1999.
Barton, Greg, "The people have spoken - now what?", Opinion, The Age, September 1999.
Barton, Greg, "PKB-PAN & PDI-P one hope for the future, Ummat, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 1998.
Barton, Greg, "Pauline Hanson's 'One Nation' Success – How is it possible?", Ummat, Jakarta, Indonesia, July 1998.
Barton, Greg, "Civil Society in Indonesia", Ummat, Jakarta, Indonesia, June 1998.

Research Grants

Current Australian Research Council Funded Research

Prof GJ Barton; Dr JP Millie; Prof M Moriyama (mid-2010-mid-2013)
Glocalisation and sub-national Islams in Indonesia: neo-traditionalism, local Islam and the commemoration of regional Islamic legacies.
Dr TA Reuter; Prof GJ Barton (mid-2010-mid-2013)
Under New Leadership: A study of the composition, behaviour and interactions of cultural, religious and political elites in democratic Indonesia
Prof GJ Barton; Dr PN Lentini; Dr SA Moss; Dr GJ Ilardi (2010-2013)
Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation, and De-Radicalisation: Developing a New Understanding of Terrorism in the Australian Context

Previous Research Grants

2004 – 2005
ARC Discovery Grant, "Capacity-building in Indonesian Islamic NGOs",
First named Chief Investigator: Dr Greg Barton, other CI: Prof Sue Kenny
($200,000)
2003
Deakin Central Research Grant, "Capacity-building in Indonesian Islamic NGOs",
First named Chief Investigator: Dr Greg Barton, other CI: Prof Sue Kenny
($25,000 over one year)
1999 - 2001
ARC Large Grant, "Islam and Civil Society in Indonesia: Muslim NGOs, public intellectuals and generational change in a society in crisis"
First named Chief Investigator: Dr Greg Barton, other CI: Prof Arief Budiman
($110,000 over three years)
1997 – 1999
ARC Large Grant, "The Influence of Islamic neo-Modernism on Islamic thought and social attitudes in Indonesia"
First named Chief Investigator: Dr Greg Barton, other CI: Dr Abdullah Saeed
($90,000 over three years)
1998
ARC Small Grant
Islam and Civil Society in Indonesia: Nahdlatul Ulama, NGOs, intellectuals and generational change
($13,000)
1997
Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights (CCHR) Initiative Grant
Islamic intellectuals and civil society in Indonesia and Malaysia
($2,350)
Deakin Near-Miss Small Grant
Two generations of Indonesian Intellectuals: Modernization, Citizenship and Muslim Society ($12,252)

Recent seminars and public speaking

21 September 2009, “Future prospects in Oceania and Southeast Asia over the next 25 years”, Pacific Horizons: Examining the future of the Asia Pacific, US Pacific Command, Camp Smith, Honolulu, USA.
20 August 2009, “Intelligence and Counter Terrorism”, and Smart Power, Soft Power, Insurrgency and Counter Terrorism, 5 day intensive counter terrorism course, APCSS and the Counter Terrorism Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
27 July 2009, “Islam and Democracy in Indonesia”, In Search of Political Legitimacy Conference in the Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore and Griffith University, NUS, Singapore
16 July 2009, “Understanding the Gulen Movement in the context of global Islamic movements”, The Gulen Movement and Interreligious Dialogue, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
29 June – 6 July 2009 36 hours of lectures and seminar discussion on Terrorism In the Asia-Pacific Region CISS6007 – University of Sydney Winter School, Sydney
18 June 2009, “Researching Islam” State Islamic University (UIN) Malang, Indonesia
17 June 2009, “Progressive Islamic thought”, Muhammadiyah Islamic University, Malang, Indonesia
17 June 2009, “Islam and democracy” State Islamic University (UIN) Malang, Indonesia
5 May 2009, “Islam and party-politics”, MAI Roundtable on the Indonesian Elections, Monash Clayton, Melbourne
1 May 2009, “The role of intelligence in counter-terrorism”; “Mumbai Terror Attacks Update”, Comprehensive Security Responses to Counter Terroris (CSRT), Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
30 April 2009, “Suicide Bombing and terrorism”, Comprehensive Security Responses to Counter Terroris (CSRT), Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
20 March 2009, "Prospects of Indonesian political consolidation after the third general election after reformation movement of 1998. Can Indonesia really pass the democratic transition or not?”, Keynote speaker, Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Australia (PPIA) 2008-2009, Flinders Asia Centre of Flinders University of South Australia
4 March 2009, “Security Lessons from Mumbai”, Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials Australia New Zealand (APCO), Sydney
18 December 2008, Islam in “Southeast Asia and the security environment”, US Air Force Special Operations Service Asia-Pacific Orientation Course 15-19 Dec at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan
23 November 2008, East, West and Mid East: Exploring the Complex Triangle of Indonesian Islam, Western Secular Modernity and the ‘Authentic’ Islam of the Arab World Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Washington DC
14 November 2008, “Islam and Dialogue: The Gülen Movement in Australia and the Development of A Different Kind of Young Turk” Georgetown University, Washington DC
4 November 2008, “Prospects for democracy in Indonesia – response to panel” The Future of Indonesia Beyond 2014: Prospect and Challenges to be held in Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel Singapore on 4 November 2008
5 September 2008, “The likely trajectory over the next two years of long-running terrorist insurgencies in the Asian region?”, NAL AUS- CSCAP REGIONAL SECURITY ISSUES FORUM 4 - 5 September 2008Asialink, University of Melbourne.
28 and 29 July 2008, “Progressive Islamic civil society activism and grown concern for the environment”, Monash - UM Workshop on Islam, Civil Society and Environmental Activism in Southeast Asia, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
16 and 17 July 2008, guest lectues for CISS6007 Terrorism in the Asia-Pacific region, University of Sydney Centre of International Strategic Studies
10 July 2008, "How to translate dialogue principles into appropriate policies" ; and “Exploring and Assessing De-Radicalization Programs Experience from Indonesia", Assessing the Effect of Dialogue on Violent Non-State Armed Groups" Humanitarian Dialogue and DFAT Australia, Manila, The Philippines
8 July 2008, “International influences on Islamic liberalism in Indonesia and Malaysia”, The Australia-Netherlands Collaboration (ANRC) Workshop, Leiden, The Netherlands
18-21 June 2008, participate in expert round-table workshop discussions "New Security Challenges in Southeast Asia" Conference, organized by the Stanley Foundation (Hyatt Regency Waikiki)
13 June 2008, "Progressive Islamic Thought in Indonesia and responses in Malaysia" , University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
9 June 2008, “Overview of challenges in the maritime domain in SEA”, Porous Borders Conference – APCSS and the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
21 May 2008, "Islam in Indonesia after a decade of democracy: two steps forward, two steps backward?", Indonesia's Decade of Democratisation – the Rise of Constitutional Democracy, organised by the Herb Feith Foundation / Monash University, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI) and The Habibie Center (THC) at LIPI, Jakarta.
2 May 2008, What comes next: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning for global terrorism?, Prognosis for Terrorism session of the graduate-level training program Terrorism: International Political and Social Perspectives, for the Attorney General's Department, Canberra.
18 March 2008, "Case Study Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia: a preliminary assessment of JI's character and long-term threat potential", Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism (CSRT) 08, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, HI, USA.
7 March 2008, "Southeast Asia & Oceania Overview of Terrorist threats", Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism (CSRT) 08, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, HI, USA.
5 April 2008 "Terrorism, counter narrative and the struggle for hearts and minds: Reflections from Indonesia", Denouncing Violence in the Name of God: The Case of Islam, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
23 November 2007, "Fethullah Gülen: Contributions to Global Peace and the Inter-religious Dialogue", Launch of the Fethullah Gülen Chair in the Study of Islam and Muslim-Catholic Relations at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
27 October 2007, "Preaching by example and learning for life: understanding the Gulen hizmet in the global context of religious philanthropy and civil religion", in IhsanYilmaz et. al. (eds.) Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gulen Movement, International Refereed Conference Proceedings, London, UK 25-27 October 2007, pp. 650-62.
24 September 2007, "The Wahid Presidency and Cultural Transition", Indonesia's Decade of Democratisation – Annual Indonesian Lecture Series, Monash University, Melbourne.
17 September 2007,"Interpreting the changing dynamics of Jemaah Islamiyah", Intelligence Analysis Asia Pacific Conference, University of Adelaide.
24 May 2007, "Zeal without zealotry", Australian Intercultural Society public lecture on Mevlana Rumi, Melbourne.
17 May 2007, "Jemaah Islamiyah: making sense of current developments", AFP/FBI Law Enforcement in a Counterterrorism Environment (LinCT) program, Manly, Sydney.
5 April 2007, "Islam's Other Nation: a fresh look at Indonesia", Centre of Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Seminar , Monash University, Melbourne.
27 March 2007, "BJ Habibie: an unlikely engineer of reform", Indonesia's Reformasi: Reflections on the Habibie Era, SAIS Johns Hopkins, Washington D.C.
24 March 2007, AAS Panel Discussion "A Conservative Turn in Indonesian Islam?", Association of Asian Studies annual meeting, Boston.
26 September 2006, "Islam and political violence in Southeast Asia", at Security Cooperation and Governance in Southeast Asia: Responding to Terrorism, Insurgency and Separatist Violence in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, an international conference organized by APCSS and IDSS, 26 – 28 September 2006 Singapore.
13 September 2006. "Jemaah Islamiyah: understanding the origins, evolution and future development of JI, FBI/AFP Law Enforcement in a Counterterrorism Environment (LinCT) program, Honolulu.
8 April 2006, "Wahhabism in Southeast Asia", Understanding Wahhabism, a conference organised by Michigan State University 7-8 April 2006, East Lansing, Michigan.
25 November 2005, "Progressive Islamic thought and social activism in Indonesia and Turkey", Islam, Human Security, and Xenophobia: An International Conference, Deakin University and Monash University, Melbourne.
12 November 2005, "Turkey's Gulen hizmet as a social movement and its parallels in Indonesia, Islam in the Contemporary World: The Fethullah Gülen Movement in Thought and Practice, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
26 September 2005, "The Gulen movement in the international context", Social Science Faculty Seminar, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey.
26 August 2005, "The Tsunami and the Third Wave: Aceh's tragedies and democratic reform in Yudhoyono's Indonesia", Conference on Natural Disasters in Asia, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, [expenses-paid invitation].
16 August 2005, "Security challenges in Southeast Asia: implications for the United States", Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii
16 May 2005,"The Issue of Shari'a in Indonesian society: convictions and approaches to the application of Islamic law", Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang University of Technology, Singapore.
25 April 2005, "Theodicy, theocracy and the individual: The challenge of political and jihadi Islamism to pluralism and liberal democracy in Asia", Conference on Political Legitimacy in Islamic Asia, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
12 April 2005, "The Struggle for Meaning: Towards a Sociology of Jihad" An ARI Round Table discussion, with Bassam Tibi and Michael Gilsenan, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore.
4 April 2005, "Progressive Islam and civil society in Indonesia and Malaysia", Religion and Globalization Study Group, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore.
24 March 2005, "Aceh after the tsunami: the longer term" A Roundtable Discussion presented by the Study Group on Indonesia, with Tony Reid and Sidney Jones, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore.
27 January 2005, "Islamic conservatism, radicalism, and liberalism and social change". Wahid Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia.
October 4, 2004, "On being human: a comparison of the thought of Said Nursi and C.S. Lewis reflecting on the shared insights of two of Islam's and Christianity's seminal 20th century intellectuals"International Symposium on Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Istanbul, Turkey [expenses-paid invitation].
28 September 2004, "Jemaah Islamiyah and radical Islamism in Indonesia", with Ansyaad Mbai, Head, Counter-terrorism cooperation desk, Republic of Indonesia Police. Wahid Institute Public Lecture, Jakarta, Indonesia.
September 2, 2004, "Understanding Indonesia's moderate Islamic heritage", International conference on Indonesia-Australia Relations, Deakin University, Melbourne.
Sep 1, "The 2004 elections and future directions in Indonesia", keynote speaker on Indonesia at IDP/AEI university leaders seminar on Indonesia, Melbourne.
August 31, 2004, "Progressive Islamic thought and activism in Indonesia", Round Table Conference on Islamic Perspectives on State, Society and Governance in Southeast Asia, ANU Canberra.
August 20, 2004, "Indonesia's Democratic Uncertainty", Guest speaker at Department of Politics seminar series, Griffith University, Brisbane [expenses-paid invitation]
August 9, 2004, "Indonesia's Future: democracy, Islam and Islamism", Guest speaker at Geelong Business Club.
July 27, 2004, "Making sense of the Indonesian elections", follow-up speaker to Wimar Witoelar at the Melbourne Press Club, Melbourne.
July 9, 2004, "Liberal Islamic NGOs in Indonesia", ASAA Biennial Conference, Canberra.
July 8, 2004, "Assessing the role of Islam in the 2004 general elections in Indonesia", ASAA Biennial Conference, Canberra.
June 1, 2004, "The Struggle for the Soul of Islam in Indonesia", the Australian Institute for International Affairs, Melbourne.
May 15, 2004 " Moral capital and the roles of religious leaders in working for peace: the example of Indonesia's Abdurrahman Wahid', 2nd Harran Conference on Abrahamic Faiths, Istanbul, Turkey [expenses-paid invitation]
10 April 2004, University of Gadjah Mada, Cross-cultural and Religious Studies Postgraduate Program, Yogyakarta, "Understanding the place of pluralism in Abdurrahman Wahid's liberal Islamic thought".
Thursday April 22, 2004, "Interpreting the Indonesian Elections" Australian Defence Forces School of Languages, RAAF Laverton.
March 25, 2004, "Islamist terrorism in Indonesia" the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Melbourne.
March 16, 2004, "Indonesia's year of voting frequently", Politics/History Group, La Trobe University.
March 13, 2004 "Issues defining the future of relations between Indonesia, East Timor and Australia", East Timorese-Indonesian Dialogue Workshop, Melbourne.
February 18, 2004 "Making sense of the emergence of radical Islamism in Indonesia", The Habibie Center, Jakarta.
February 18, 2004 "Islam and politics in contemporary Indonesia", The Wahid Center, Jakarta.
February 17, 2004 "Abdurrahman Wahid's contribution to political and social reform, State Islamic Institute - IAIN Mataram, Lombok.
February 16, 2004 "Religion and conflict advoidance/ conflict resolution", YPKM (Yayasan Pemberdayaan dan Kesejahteraan Masyarakat), Lombok.
February 13, 2004 "Making sense of the emergence of radical Islamism in Indonesia", United Nations Support Facility for Indonesian Recovery (UNSFIR), Jakarta.
February 12, 2004, "Pengaruh dan pekembangan Islamism radikal di Asia Tenggara, Himpunan Mahasiwa Islam (HMI), Jakarta.
December 10, 2003, "Responding to Bryan Turner's 'Strong Aesthetic/Weak Structure: the sociology of cultural resistance to globalisation'", Islam's Democratic Century, Centre of Citizenship and Human Rights, Deakin University, Melbourne.
December 4, 2003, "Islam and Politics in Indonesia", Kilvington Girls Grammar, Melbourne.
November 28, "Islam and Politics", Perspectives on Islam, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
October 8, 2003, "Islam and Islamism and Terrorism", The Cranlana Institute, Melbourne.
September 25, 2003, "The Implications of Political Instability in Indonesia", War, Conflict and Nation-Building: Roundtable on Asian-Pacific Security, Adelaide University.
September 16, 2003, "Jemaah Islamiyah and Islamist Terrorism", Geelong East Rotary Club.
September 6, 2003, "Muslim-Christian Relations", Darebin Council Program for Religious Dialogue, Melbourne.
August 26, 2003, "Jemaah Islamiyah and Islamist Terrorism", Geelong Rotary Club.
August 16, 2003, "Making sense of radical Islamism in Indonesia", Monash/Murdoch Conference on Islam and the West.
July 12, 2003, "Islam and Politics in post-Soeharto Indonesia", MIC conference on political Islam, University of Melbourne.
April 29, 2003, "The Emergence of Jihadi Terrorism in Indonesia", Pacific Institute – The Melbourne Club.
April 8, 2003, "Indonesia's democratic transition", with Abdurrahman Wahid, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA.
April 1, 2003, "Radial Islamism and terrorism in Southeast Asia", Politics/History Group, La Trobe University.
February 26, 2003, "Jemaah Islamism and Islamist terrorism in Southeast Asia", International Studies Association (ISA) 2003 Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA.
February 18, 2003, "Islam, Islamism and Politics in post-Soeharto Indonesia", Development Studies Postgraduate Program, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
February 17, 2003, "Assessing the threat of Radical Islamism in Indonesia", University of Newcastle, Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK.
February 14, 2003, "Assessing the threat of Radical Islamism in Indonesia", National University of Singapore, Singapore.