Dr Athiqah Nur Alami is a researcher at the Research Center for Politics, the National Research and Innovation Agency (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional-BRIN), Indonesia. She completed her Ph.D. from the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Her main interests are Indonesia’s foreign policy, labor migration, and gender in International Relations, particularly to apply a gender lens in analysing both migration and foreign policy and diplomacy issues.