Dr Robin Bush is a Senior Research Fellow in the Religion and Globalization Cluster of the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Robin Bush’s research interests revolve around the interfaces between Islam, religion, politics, and development, particularly in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. She is pursuing two research projects at ARI – the first is an updated and in-depth examination of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Indonesia’s largest mass-based Muslim organization, and the second is contributing to the cluster’s overall project on Religion and NGOs in Asia. Prior to joining ARI in December of 2011, Dr Bush spent 11 years at The Asia Foundation’s Indonesia office – directing its programs on Islam for the first 6 years, and then as Deputy and Country Representative for the last 5 years. Her book is entitled Nahdlatul Ulama and the Struggle for Power in Islam and Politics in Indonesia (ISEAS, 2009) and she is the author of numerous other articles on Islam in Indonesia.