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Why did you choose to do graduate education at NUS? If you received offers from other universities, why did you pick NUS?
I had an excellent experience at NUS, thanks largely to my incredibly talented PhD supervisor, Lily Kong. NUS and Singapore more generally were stimulating places to be based for my PhD, particularly as my research was in Indonesia. NUS and affiliated institutes, such as the Asia Research Institute, exposed me to leading-edge researchers doing innovative research on Asia.
Briefly share about your research or thesis (i.e. dissertation topic for Masters by Coursework students).
Performing National Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
On hindsight, would you have chosen the same research supervisor for your graduate programme?
My supervisor is main reason for my career success. Prof. Lily Kong is a world-renowned scholar and administrator who is currently the president of the Singapore Management University, the first woman president ever of a Singaporean university. I received outstanding supervision from Prof. Kong and would not be where I am today without her. I was extraordinarily lucky that she accepted me as her graduate student and appreciate both her brilliance and her kindness.