Prof. Nina Nurmila, Ph.D
About Lecturer
Prof. Nina Nurmila, PhD is a Professor of Gender and Islamic Studies at the State Islamic University (UIN) Bandung. Her first degree was in Islamic Education from IAIN SGD Bandung (1992), her MA was from Murdoch University (1997) and her PhD was from the University of Melbourne (2007). She was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (2000), Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Technology, Sydney (2008), Fulbright Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at University of Redlands, California, USA (2008-9). She was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Western Sydney (2013) and the University van Amsterdam (2015). She is the author of Women, Islam and Everyday Life: Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia (London; New York: Routledge, 2009&2011). She wrote several articles on gender and Islam in the international journals and book chapters published for example at Routledge (London& New York), Brill (the Netherlands), University of Amsterdam Press (the Netherlands), and Demeter (Canada). Professor Nina Nurmila, PhD currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Education.
About research interest: “My research area of interest is gender and Islam in Muslim societies, especially Indonesia. My recent study is on preventing child marriage by promoting education for girls”.
University of Melbourne, Australia (2007)
Diploma in “Conflict Resolution 2000”, International Advanced Training
Uppsala University, Sweden (2000)
MA in Development Studies
Murdoch University, Australia (1997)
Bachelor’s Degree in Islamic Studies
State Islamic University Bandung, Indonesia (1992)
Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII) Depok
July 2021 – Present
Lecturer Islamic Education and Teaching Faculty
Universitas Islam Negeri/UIN (State Islamic University) Bandung
1994 – Present
Lecturer Postgraduate studies program
UIN SGD Bandung
August 2009 – Present
Commissioner
National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan)
2015-2019
Review Panel Team for Short Term Awards (STA) Democratic Resilience: Youth Participation
2020
Review Panel Team for Short Term Awards (STA) Leadership for Senior Multi-faith Women Leaders
2018 – 2019
Review Panel Team for Short Term Awards (STA) Leadership Development for Islamic Women’s Leaders
2017
Australia Awards Joint Selection Team for PhD Scholarship
2016
Selection Team of the West Java Commissioners for General Election
July – September 2013
Lecturer Postgraduate program
Indonesia Education University (UPI) Bandung
February 2011 – 2013
Lecturer Postgraduate program
Universitas Islam Nusantara (UNINUS) Bandung
2010 – 2012
Head International Collaboration with Australia
America and Europe at the Center for Collaboration and Entrepreneurship, UIN Bandung
Feb 2012 – August 2013
Fulbright Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Redlands, California, USA
August 2008 – June 2009 (one academic year)
Head English Department,
The Islamic Education Faculty, UIN Bandung
2007 – 2008
The University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association (UMPA) Research Officer
2006
UMPA Women’s Officer
2003
Book translator and editor
Mizan Publisher, Bandung
1997 – 2022
Encyclopedias:
Nurmila, N. (2012). Qur’ān: Modern Interpretations: Indonesia”, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. General Editor Suad Joseph. Netherlands: Brill Online. https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-women-and-islamic-cultures/quran-modern-interpretations-indonesia-EWICCOM_001411?s.num=2&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopedia-of-women-and-islamic-cultures&s.q=nurmila
Nurmila, N. (2005). Kartini, Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2005. https://books.google.co.id/books/about/Encyclopedia_of_Women_s_Autobiography.html?id=Nqt1MwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Books:
Nurmila, N. (2022). Menjadi Feminis Muslim [On Being Muslim Feminist] (ed.). Bandung: Afkaruna.
Nurmila, N. (2011). Women, Islam and Everyday Life. Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Women-Islam-and-Everyday-Life-Renegotiating-Polygamy-in-Indonesia/Nurmila/p/book/9780415673877
Nurmila, N. (2008). Modul Studi Islam dan Jender. Pedoman Mata Kuliah Studi Islam dan Jender pada Sekolah Pascasarjana Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Jakarta [Gender and Islamic Studies Module. A Resource book for the course Gender and Islamic Studies at the School of Postgraduate Studies, the State Islamic University Jakarta]. Jakarta: PSW UIN Jakarta.
Book chapters:
Nurmila, N. (2025). The Global Ikhwan Women’s Experiences in Polygamous Marriages in Malaysia: Polygamy as Means to Be Closer to God. In: Othman, N., Nadarajah, Y., Mohd Isa, R. (eds) Polygamous Marriages in Peninsular Malaysia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9104-0_12
Nurmila, N. (2025). Islamic Feminists’ Approaches. In: Bano M, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge University Press; pp. 214-233. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-companion-to-women-and-islam/islamic-feminists-approaches/7D0AA2AE8DDAC391F4BB7B067A724C00
Nurmila, N. (2022). Menjadi Berdaya sebagai Feminis Muslim [Being Empowered as a Muslim Feminist] dalam Menjadi Feminis Muslim [On Being Muslim Feminist] (ed.). Bandung: Afkaruna.
Nurmila, N. (2022). The Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Indonesia, in Noorhaidi Hasan and Irene Schneider (eds.) International Law between Translation and Pluralism. Examples from Germany, Palestine and Indonesia. Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag. https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/International_Law_between_Translation_and_Pluralism/title_7095.ahtml
Nurmila, N. (2016). Motherhood in Indonesia: Negotiating Expectations of Childbearing, Family Size, and Governmental Policies” in Margaret Aziza Pappano and Dana M. Olwan (ed.) Muslim Mothering: Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices. Canada: Demeter Press. https://demeterpress.org/books/muslim-mothering-local-and-global-histories-theories-and-practices/
Nurmila, N. & Benner, L.R. (2015). Sexuality and Polygamy in Indonesia” in Sex and Sexualities in Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations, Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies (eds), London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Sex-and-Sexualities-in-Contemporary-Indonesia-Sexual-Politics-Health/Bennett-Davies/p/book/9781138283534
Nurmila, N. (2016). The Indonesian Muslim Feminist Reinterpretation of Inheritance. in Jajat Burhanudin and Kees van Dijk (editors), Islam in Indonesia. Contrasting Images and Interpretations, in. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089644237/islam-in-indonesia
Nurmila, N. (2008). Negotiating polygamy in Indonesia: Between Islamic discourse and women’s lived experiences. In S. Blackburn, B. J. Smith, & S. Syamsiyatun (Eds.), Indonesian Islam in a new era: How women negotiate their Muslim identities (pp. 23-45). Australia: Monash University Press
Journal Articles:
Nurmila, N. (2025). KUPI Approach to Qur’an and Hadith Re-interpretation. African Journal of Gender and Religion, 31(1). https://doi.org/10.36615/vqcta754
Rinaldo, R., Nisa, E. F., & Nurmila, N. (2024). Divorce Narratives and Class Inequalities in Indonesia. Journal of Family Issues, 45(5), 1195-1216. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X231155657
Nurmila, N., & Windiana, W. (2023). Understanding the Complexities of Child Marriage and Promoting Education to Prevent Child Marriage in Indramayu, West Java. Ulumuna, 27(2), 823-853. https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v27i2.680
Nurmila, N. (2021). The Spread of Muslim Feminist Ideas in Indonesia: Before and After the Digital Era. Al-Jami`ah Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2021, pp. 97-126, https://aljamiah.or.id/index.php/AJIS/article/view/59104
Nurmila, N. (2020). Proposing Feminist Interpretation of the Qur’an and Affirmative Policy to Support Women Leadership in Indonesian State Islamic Higher Education”, Musawa. Jurnal Studi Gender dan Islam, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 125-140, http://ejournal.uin-suka.ac.id/pusat/MUSAWA/article/view/192.125-140
Nurmila, N. (2020). Metodologi Studi Islam Kontekstual dalam Menafsirkan Ayat-ayat Al- Qur’an tentang Kesetaraan Gender” [Contextual Islamic Studies’ Methodology in Interpreting Qur’anic Verses on Gender Equality], Ilmu Ushuluddin, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 209-226, https://journal.uinjkt.ac.id/index.php/ilmu-ushuluddin/article/view/17702
Nurmila, N. (2020). New Grounded Feminist Approach to Islam in Indonesia: A Textual Analysis of Rahima and Fahmina’s Publication, Journal of Asian Social Science Research 2020, Vol. 2, No. 1: 25-52, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15575/jassr.v2i1.11
Nurmila, N. (2019). The Current Battles between Progressive and Conservative Muslim Women in Indonesia, Agenda, Jurnal Analisis Gender dan Agama, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2019, pp. 1-9. https://ojs.iainbatusangkar.ac.id/ojs/index.php/agenda/article/view/2026/1547
Nurmila, N. (2019). Challenges to the enactment of Sexual Violence Bill. Journal Humanisma, Vol. 3 No. 2, July-December 2019, pp. 92-192. https://ejournal.iainbukittinggi.ac.id/index.php/psga/article/view/2557
Nurmila, N. (2018). Breaking Patriarchal Gender Stereotype. Being A Female Rector of the Institut Seni Budaya Indonesia/ISBI Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol. 5, No. 2, July-December 2018, pp. 107-130. https://doi.org/10.32678/kawalu.v5i2.1885
Nurmila, N. (2018). Polygamous Marriages in Indonesia and Their Impacts on Women’s Access to Income and Property, Al-Jami`ah Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 54, Number 2, 2016, pp. 427-446. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2016.542.427-446
Nurmila, N. (2015). Pengaruh Budaya Patriarki terhadap Pemahaman Agama dan Pembentukan Budaya. Karsa, Jurnal Sosial&Budaya Keislaman, Vol. 23, No. 1. http://ejournal.iainmadura.ac.id/index.php/karsa/article/view/606
Nurmila, N. (2013).Feminist Reinterpretation of the Qur’an”, Journal of Qur’an and Hadith Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2. pp. 155-166. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15408/quhas.v2i2.1312
Nurmila, N. (2013). Indonesian Muslims’ Discourse of Husband-Wife Relationship. Al- Jami`ah Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 51, Number 1, 2013, pp. 61- 79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2013.511.61-79
Nurmila, N. (2011). Pembagian Waris Perspektif Keadilan Gender [Inheritance Division from Equal Gender Perspective], Az-Zahra, Vol III, No. 06 Juni 2011.
Nurmila, N. (2011). The Influence of Muslim Global Feminism on Indonesian Muslim Feminist Discourse. Al-Jami`ah, UIN Yogyakarta, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp.33-64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2011.491.33-64
Nurmila, N. (2009). The Urgency of Women’s Education in Islam”, Media Pendidikan (the Journal of Religious Education), Vol. XXIV, no. 2, August, pp. 175- 184.
Nurmila, N. (2003). Interpretasi Agama dan Hak-hak Reproduksi Perempuan [Religious Interpretations and Women’s Reproductive Rights],” Az-Zahra, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2003.
Nurmila, N. (2001). “Perempuan dalam Islam. Antara Idealitas dan Realitas (Women in Islam: Between Idealities and Realities),” Jurnal Pemberdayaan Perempuan (the journal of women’s empowerment), Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2001.
Newspaper & Magazine opinions:
Nurmila, N. (2022). KDRT, Tindak Pidana yang Harus Dilaporkan” [Domestic violence, a criminal act which has to be reported], KOMPAS, 10 February 2022, https://www.kompas.id/baca/opini/2022/02/10/kdrt-tindak-pidana-yang-harus-dilaporkan
Nurmila, N. (2019). Bias Gender Sekolah Ibu [Gender Biased School for Mothers], Pikiran Rakyat, 4 January 2019.
Nurmila, N. (2017). No popular support for polygamy. Time for Indonesia to ban the practice, Policy Forum, 29 November 2017, https://www.policyforum.net/no- popular-support-polygamy/
Nurmila, N. (2014). Menyiapkan lulusan UIN untuk go international [Preparing UIN graduate to go international], Suaka, No. 16/Tahun XXVI/ Edisi April/Mei 2014.
Nurmila, N. (2014). Perempuan dan Pemeliharaan Lingkungan [Women and Environmental Preservation], Swara Rahima [the Voice of Rahima], no. 44 Th. XIV, 2014.
Nurmila, N. (2013). Awas Ledakan Penduduk Berkualitas Rendah! [Watch out of the low quality population booming!], Pikiran Rakyat, 5 Juli 2013.
Nurmila, N. (2012). Pendidikan Perempuan” [Women’s Education], Swara Rahima [the Voice of Rahima], no. 39 Th. XII, 2012.
Nurmila, N. (2011). Tafsir Al-Qur’an tentang Keluarga Berencana [Qur’anic exegesis on family planning], Swara Rahima [the Voice of Rahima], no. 36 Th. XI October 2011
Nurmila, N. (2011). When there is no husband,” Inside Indonesia, Jan-Mar 2011.
Nurmila, N. (2011). Ulama Perempuan Bisa Menjadi Pemimpin” [Female scholars can be leaders], Swara Rahima [the Voice of Rahima], no. 34 Th. XI March 2011.
Nurmila, N. (2010). The issue of mahram (the prohibited person to be married) around the world,” Swara Rahima [the Voice of Rahima], no. 33 Th. X December 2010.
Nurmila, N. (2005). Polygamy and Chickens, Inside Indonesia, July-September 2005.
Nurmila, N. (2003). “International Women’s Experiences: The March Meet Report”, Postgraduate Review, Vol. 9 No. 3, 2003.
Nurmila, N. (2003). “Against All Odds…Facing Equity Issues as a Postgraduate”, Postgraduate Review, Vol. 9 No. 3, 2003.
Nurmila, N. (2003). “Islam. Egalitarian and Anti-patriarchal Religion”, book review of Asma Barlas, (2002) “Believing women” in Islam: unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Quran. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, Traffic, vol 2, 2003.
Nurmila, N. (1997). “Burn in the melting pot” in Fremantle Herald, Western Australia, March 1, 1997 (It is a form of my resistance to the existing discrimination that I experienced in Australian communities).