Pranoto Iskandar

Founding Director of the Institute for Migrant Rights, an academic based initiative that strive to promote and advocate the rights of immigrants in Indonesia and beyond, and Founding Editor of Rangkaian Studi IMR dalam Hukum Internasional dan Perbandingan Hukum. His groundbreaking book is Hukum HAM Internasional which is considered by many leading scholars as having strong of scholarship which stress the importance of non-state centered oriented in international scholarship. His approach is internationalist in its very nature. His stance is mark a new era of the Indonesian legal scholarship that stress the intricacies of globalization and legal studies. Therefore, his method of advocacy of the rights of immigrants is said to be " the first . . . of its type in this country and indicates substantial progress by the non-government sector" in Indonesia. In other word, he introduced a new kind internationalist legal strategy for the non-western societies that emphasized the importance of international human rights machineries for the prerequisite to promotion of the integration of Muslim world into a single global community. His initiative has attract many world renowned scholars in the field, some of them currently join its advisory board. (Source: The Jakarta Post, American Society of International of Law and Robyn Iredale, "Kata Pengantar: Pengelolaan Migrasi Ketenagakerjaan di Indonesia," in International Labor Organization, Standar Internasional Migrasi Ketenagakerjaan Berbasis HAM, ed. Pranoto Iskandar, Cianjur: IMR Press, 2011)