Biography
Choky R. Ramadhan is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington School of Law with Graduate Certificates in International Development from UW Evans School Public Policy & Governance and Ethics from UW Department of Philosophy. He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law University of Indonesia (currently on study leave). His research interests are criminal justice policy and previously has worked on and published in anti-corruption, drug policy, comparative criminal justice, and judicial reform. He has been working with Indonesian government agencies, international organizations, national NGOs, and Universities to provide research, training, legal and policy advice on those topics in Indonesia since 2011. Choky obtained a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) from the University of Indonesia in 2011 and a master of Asia and Comparative Law (LL.M.) from the University of Washington in 2014.
Research
Choky employs a mixed method in his dissertation to (1) measure the benefit and cost of enforcing Indonesian anti-corruption laws, and (2) understand the practice and factors that contributed to the collection of monetary sanctions from the crimes of corruption offenders.
Selected Publications
- "Reviewing the Indonesian Anticorruption Court: A Cost-Effective Analysis" Law and Development Review, vol. 15, no. 1, 2022, pp. 121-146.
- Good enough governance: the need to evaluate Indonesian anti-corruption efforts realistically – The Conversation, December 13, 2021.
- Contract Disclosure and Beneficial Ownership Transparency, (PWYP Indonesia, 2020).
- Consortium for the Index Access to Justice, 2020).
- Impractical and Unrealistic: Why an Indonesian Bill to Ban Alcohol Would Cause More Problems Than It Solves – The Conversation, November 23, 2020.
- Co-author of Index of Access to Justice in Indonesia 2019, (Jakarta, Civil Society Reforming Indonesian Rape Law: Adopting U.S. Rape Shield Law in Excluding Prejudicial Evidence, Indonesia Law Review, Vol 8, No 1 (2018).
- Plead Guilty, Without Bargaining: Learning from China’s “Summary Procedure” before Enacting Indonesia’s “Special Procedure” in Criminal Procedure, (Pacific Basin Law Journal, 32(1), 2014).