Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat is Director of the China-Indonesia Desk at the Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS) in Jakarta, Indonesia. He also holds affiliated positions at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore and Busan University of Foreign Studies. He was previously an assistant professor at the Department of International Relations, Universitas Islam Indonesia. His areas of expertise lie in the political economy of international cooperation, with a particular emphasis on China-Indonesia relations, China-Middle East relations and Indonesia-Middle East relations.