Ihsan Ali-Fauzi is the Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Democracy (PUSAD), Paramadina Foundation and a lecturer at Paramadina Graduate School, Jakarta. He studied history and political science at Ohio University, Athens, and the Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, both in the US. He writes for a number of national mass media, including Kompas, Koran Tempo, Majalah Tempo, The Jakarta Post and journals such as Studia Islamika and Asian Survey. As part of the PUSAD Paramadina team, he published Disputed Churches in Jakarta (2011) and Pemolisian Konflik Agama di Indonesia [The Policing of Religious Conflict in Indonesia] (2014).