Prof. Dr. Firman Noor, MA (Hons) is a senior researcher at the Research Center for Politics, National Research and Innovation Agency. He is also the director of research at the Center for Politics, Indonesia Institute of Sciences (2017-2021) and the chairman of the Association of Indonesia Political Sciences (AIPI). His research interests include political parties, elections, political representation, and political theories. Throughout his tenure as Researcher, he has been involved in various studies relating to those research areas and many others on nationalism, borderlands, and globalization. Apart from his research activities, he has also been teaching at the Department of Political Science and the Postgraduate Program in Political Science, FISIP UI, on the subjects of Introduction to Political Science, Indonesian Political System, Western Political Thought, Islamic Political Thought, Islamic Political Thought in Indonesia, Political Science Methodology, and Political Powers in Indonesia.