Kadek Wara Urwasi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR) at Monash University Indonesia. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University. Her research interests include urban sociology, urban politics, and comparative historical sociology. Wara’s project explores the factors and processes that drive the variation and inconsistency in governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta across different regimes, focusing on leaders’ interests, community power, and ideational politics.