Saiful Mujani is Associate Professor of Political Science at Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta. The founder of Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) and former director of the Indonesian Survey Institute (2004-9), Mujani is the former director of research and development at MetroTV, the first and best Indonesian news channel, regularly appears on MetroTV, TVONE, SCTV, and writes for Tempo, a top national newsweekly, and newspapers Kompas, Media Indonesia, and Koran Tempo. Mujani is the former personal adviser on public opinion to President Yudhoyono (2004-14). He received the Franklin L. Burdette/Phi Sigma Alpha best paper award from the American Political Science Association Annual Conference (2009), and has been published in American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Democracy, Asian Survey and Japanese Journal of Political Science.
