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Siti Nur Azizah, PhD, is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her research interests include Islamic social finance, the halal industry and women’s economic empowerment.

Koeswinarno Koeswinarno a Professor of Research in 2011, has dedicated most of his research career to the transgender in Indonesia, which is still as a marginalized group. He started his research on transgender when he received research grants from The Toyota Foundation (1992) and Ford Foundation (1996). And then he strengthened transgender studies in his master’s program (1997). By the year of 2008, he continued his doctoral study in anthropology at Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, by writing a dissertation on transgender. He began his career as a researcher at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (1989–2001), continued when he worked at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (2001–2012). In 2012, he moved for working at Ministry of Religious Affairs, and finally, he joined in the National Research and Innovation Agency from 2022 until now.

Anissa Nur Salam is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati, Bandung, Indonesia. Her research interests include the halal industry, Islamic finance, macroeconomics, monetary economics and development economics.

Rahmat Husein Andri Ansyah is a Junior Researcher at the Research Center for Public Policy, National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia. He previously worked as a researcher at the Research and Development Agency of Ministry of Religious Affair of Indonesia. He earned a master’s degree on public/nonprofit management and was awarded Best Masters Graduate in 2017 from Islam State University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya. His research focus mainly covers public management and public participation in public policy.

Kustini Kustini is a Senior Researcher at the National Research and Innovation Agency, Republic of Indonesia. She completed her Doctoral Program for Sociology at Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, in 2013. She was appointed as a research professor in 2021 at the Ministry of Religious Affairs Republic of Indonesia after submitting a scientific paper entitled: “Family Women, and Social Change.” Some her published articles are “Undocumented Marriages: Study on Indonesian Female Migrant Workers in Jeddah Saudi Arabia,” part of Gender in International Relations in Indonesia-Australia, published by PT Kanisius, Jakarta in 2019, pages 39–56.

Siti Atieqoh started to pursue the world of research since 2011 when she joined the Research Center for Religious Education and Religious and in 2018 joined the Center for Research and Development of Religious Public Guidance and Religious Services for Ministry of Religious Affairs. However, she started her career as a real researcher in 2021 along with the joining of other researchers at BRIN. Nowadays, she is working for the Research Center of Religion and Belief – BRIN. Her undergraduation was completed in 1992 in the English Education Program Study at IKIP Yogyakarta (now Yogyakarta State University). Her master’s degree was completed at the Department of Education Management, Postgraduate Program, State University of Jakarta in 2002. The research that she is currently doing focuses more on the theme of religious services, namely, the theme of Halal Product, Hajj and Umrah.

Fakhruddin M. is a Researcher at the Research Center of Public Policy, for National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Before joining BRIN in January 2021, he was a researcher at the Center for Research and Development of Religious Public Guidance and Religious Services for Ministry of Religious Affairs. He completed his Master of Administrative Science from Krisnadwipayana University Jakarta.