Indra Alverdian

Assistant Professor
Doctor of Philosophy (ANCORS, University of Wollongong, Australia)

Room: FASS 2.36

Email: indra.alverdian@ubd.edu.bn

About

Dr.Indra Alverdian is an Assistant Professor and lecturer at the Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Brunei Darussalam. Recently he was an Assistant Professor at the Maritime Safety and Security Program at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan. Previously, he was also a lecturer on Indonesian Ocean Policy, Sea Power and Maritime Affairs, as well as Ocean Governance in Global Politics, at President University in Indonesia. Dr. Alverdian received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Maritime Policy and Law from the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) University of Wollongong in Australia in 2022. He was a recipient of the 2024 Yeosu Academy of the Law of the Sea Award and the 2023-2024 WSD Handa Non-Resident Research Fellow at the US Pacific Forum. His current research interests include maritime security and safety in Brunei and Southeast Asia and maritime defense policies and strategy in Southeast Asia.  

Research Interests

Maritime Security and Safety in Brunei and Southeast Asia, Strategic Culture, Political Science, Maritime Culture in Southeast Asia, Maritime Defense Policies and Strategy in Southeast Asia.  

Select Publications

Book Publications

  1. Alverdian, Indra. Indonesia’s Maritime Policy from Independence to 2019: Political Culture and Maritime Geography . Taylor & Francis, 2024.

Journal Articles

  1. Petrasia D. Gani, Indra Alverdian. The Influence of Member States Domestic Determinants on the Implementation of Pillar Two of the 2021 Australia-UK-US Trilateral Security Partnership (AUKUS). Journal of Maritime Research, Vol. XXIII, No.1, 2026: 233-242.
  2. Daniel C. George, Indra Alverdian. “Repositioning North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): The New Security Dilemma on Trans-Atlantic Relations Amid Shifting Global Geopolitics.” Journal of Strategic and Global Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2025
  3. Yoga, Pornomo Rovan Astri, and Indra Alverdian. “Reinterpreting the Normal Mode of Submarine in Archipelagic Sea Lane Passage.” Indonesian Journal of International Law 21, no. 3 (2024): 593.
  4. Alverdian, Indra, and Pornomo Rovan. “Australia Nuclear-Powered Submarines, Archipelagic Waters, and the New Capital City of Indonesia.” Journal of Maritime Research 20, no. 3 (2023): 1-11.
  5. Alverdian, Indra. ” The Tanah -Air concept and Indonesia’s maritime nation aspiration.” Journal of Maritime Studies and National Integration 5, no. 2 (2022): 64-80.
  6. Gopal, Prakash, and Indra Alverdian. “Maritime Security Cooperation Between India and Indonesia: Imperatives, Status and Prospects.” India Quarterly 77, no. 2 (2021): 269 -288.
  7. Alverdian, Indra, Marko Joas, and Nina Tynkkynen. “Prospects for multi-level governance of maritime security in the Sulu-Celebes Sea: lessons from the Baltic Sea region.” Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs 12, no. 2 (2020):108-122.

Visiting Research

  1. 2024 Yeosu Academy Law of the Sea Scholarship Recipient, Yeosu, South Korea.
  2. 2023 WSD Handa Non-Resident Research Fellow, US Pacific Forum, Honolulu, USA.
  3. 2020 Research Associate, Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, Kings College, UK.
  4. 2019 Visiting Research Fellow, Sea Strategic Programme, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.

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