Zulfa Sakhiyya, Ph.D.
About SIR Fellow
Zulfa Sakhiyya is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Ohio State University in 2023. She is the Communication Director of the Indonesian Young Academy of Science (ALMI). Zulfa is a discourse analyst focusing on how knowledge is produced and represented, and published in the area. Her work has been published in journals such as Gender and Education; Globalization, Societies and Education, International Journal of Multilingualism, and Pedagogy, Culture and Society. Zulfa receives the Barr Mosenthal Awards granted by the International Literacy Association in 2022 for her literacy research in Indonesia.
The University of Auckland, New Zealand (2018)
Master of TESOL
La Trobe University, Australia (2010)
Bachelor of English Education
Semarang State University (2002)
Universitas Negeri Semarang
Director of Communication
the Indonesian Young Academy of Science
Sakhiyya, Z., & Wijaya Mulya, T. (2023). Education in Indonesia: equity and social justice. Singapore: Springer.
Sakhiyya, Z. (2023). Decolonizing Internationalizing or Decolonizing the Curriculum, Academic Self, and Research? Exploring decolonization initiatives in three Indonesian universities. In Internationalization of Higher Education from Asian Perspectives: Insights into Policies,
Practices and Prospects, Tran, Zou & Ota (eds). London: Routledge.
Sakhiyya, Z. & Hapsari, C. (2021). Critical Literacies in Indonesia. In Handbook of Critical Literacies, Pandya, J., Mora, R., Golden, N & de Roock, R (eds). UK: Routledge.
Sakhiyya, Z. & Fitzgerald, T. (2021). Feminist critical perspectives on educational leadership in Indonesia. In Understanding Educational Leadership, Courtney, S., Gunter, H,. & Niesche, R. (eds). UK: Bloomsbury.
Sakhiyya, Z. (2020). The history of higher education in Indonesia. Symaco & Jacob (eds). Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. UK: Bloomsbury.
Sakhiyya, Z. (2019). Globalization in higher education: Indonesia. Symaco, L.P, & Jacob, J. (eds). Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. UK: Bloomsbury.
Sakhiyya, Z. (2020). Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education. Semarang: LPPM UNNES Press.
Sakhiyya, Z. & Luthfia, K. (2019). Understanding Functional Texts. Semarang: UNNES Press.
Humaedi, A. & Sakhiyya, Z. (2011). A Case Study on the Role of Mosque in Disaster Situation in Indonesia: six mosques in five locations. Jakarta: UN-OCHA.
Sakhiyya, Z., Arsana, A. & Rahmadewi, M. (2011). Education Counts! The contribution of Indonesian students studying overseas for education in Indonesia. Yogyakarta: Insightmedia.
Sakhiyya, Z. (2010). Teacher Certification in Indonesia: for qualified or quantified teachers? Zein, M S. (ed). Contribution Matters! Canberra: PPIA ACT Press.
Sumardiyani, L. and Sakhiyya, Z. (2007). Speaking for Instructional Purpose: A Handbook. Semarang: IKIP PGRI Press.
Journal Articles:
Rakhmani & Sakhiyya. (2024). The cultural political economy of knowledge in neoliberal Indonesia. Journal of Contemporary Asia. Q1 – Routledge.
Rakhmani, I. & Sakhiyya, Z. (2023). Inequalities and social science in neoliberal Indonesia. (2023). International Social Science Journal. Q2 – Wiley.
Sakhiyya, Z., Fitzgerald, T., Rakhmani, I., Eliyanah, E., & Farida, AN. (2023). Indonesian female academics and the pandemic: the challenges of COVID-19 and academic work. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. Q1 – Routledge
Sakhiyya, Z. Hapsari, CT, Sumaryani, S., & Farida, AN. (2023). From protest march to digital campaign: women’s movement and critical literacies in Indonesia. Gender and Education. Q1 – Routledge.
Alemu, SK, Qu, M. & Sakhiyya, Z. (2022). Voices of internationalisation of higher education from sub-Saharan Africa, China and Indonesia. Learning and Teaching (LATISS Journal). Q2 – Berghahn.
Hustarna, Saleh, M., Fitriati, S.W., & Sakhiyya, Z. (2022). Teacher Cognition about Online Listening Instruction: A Case Study at a Public University in Indonesia. Journal of ASIA TEFL. Q1 – Routledge. 1
Wijaya Mulya, T., Sakhiyya, Z., Bukhori Muslim, A., & Suryani, A. (2022). Locally-grounded, embodied, and spiritual: exploring alternative constructions of democratic education with/in Indonesian schools. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1-17. Q1 – Routledge
Sakhiyya, Z., Saraswati, G., Anam, Z. & Azis, A. (2022). What’s in a name? Crisis communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in multilingual Indonesia. International Journal of Multilingualism. Q1 – Routledge
Sakhiyya, Z. (2022). Cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitics ? The roles of university elites in the internationalisation of Indonesian higher education. Globalisation, Societies and Education. Q1 – Routledge
Nugroho, K. Y., & Sakhiyya, Z. (2022). Photovoice: Young children online English language learning, parents’ voices and its implication to educational policy and provision. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 11(3), 612–622. Q2 – Scopus indexed.
Sakhiyya, Z. (2021). Problematizing policy: a semantic history of the word ‘policy’ in the Indonesian language. Critical Policy Studies. Q1 – Routledge – Scopus-indexed journal.
Sakhiyya, Z. & Martin-Anatias, N. (2020). Reviving the language at risk: a social semiotic analysis of the linguistic landscape of three cities in Indonesia. International Journal of Multilingualism. Q1 – Routledge – Scopus-indexed journal.
Mulya, T. & Sakhiyya, Z. (2020). ‘Leadership is a sacred matter’: Women leaders contesting and contextualising neoliberal meritocracy in the Indonesian academia. Gender and Education. Q1 – Routledge.
Nugroho, K., Sakhiyya, Z., Saleh, M. & Mujiyanto, J. (2020). Exploring the Constructivist Mentoring Program in Developing EFL Teacher Professionalism: A Qualitative Approach. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 10, (1). Q2 – Scopus-indexed.
Sakhiyya, Z. & Locke, K. (2019). Empowerment vs. meritocracy discourses in Indonesian public universities: The case of female leaders. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. 25, (2), 198-216. DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2019.1610210. Routledge – Scopus-indexed.
Sakhiyya, Z. & Rata, E. (2019). From Priceless to Priced: The Value of Knowledge in Higher Education. Globalisation, Societies and Education. Q1 – Taylor and Francis, Routledge – Scopus-indexed journal.
Sakhiyya, Z., Agustien, HIR., & Pratama, H. (2018). The Reconceptualisation of knowledge base in the pre-service teacher education curriculum: towards ELF pedagogy. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 8, (1). Q2 – Scopus-indexed.
Sakhiyya, Z. (2017). Negotiating Social Identity through Questions in Casual Conversations: a critical discourse analysis. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 6, (2), 311 – 318. Q2 – Scopus-indexed journal.
Sakhiyya, Z. (2013). Question formation of Bahasa Indonesia as a Second Language. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 3, (1), 138-147. Q2 – Scopus- indexed journal.
Sakhiyya, Z. (2011). Interrogating Identity: The policy of international standard school in Indonesia. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. 19, (3), 345-365. Q1 – Routledge.