Balawyn Jones
Balawyn Jones, Ph.D
La Trobe University - Australia
Profile
Balawyn Jones is a PhD candidate at the Asian Law Centre and the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam, and Society, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Her research spans multiple areas of Indonesian law and human rights, with a particular focus on the intersections of gender, religion, and law. She has a strong research interest in the protection of women’s rights in developing countries, and her doctoral thesis examines judicial responses to domestic violence.
Jones holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (Advanced major in Geography) from the University of Queensland. Prior to joining Melbourne Law School, she worked as an Associate at the Federal Court of Australia and as Pro Bono Legal Clinic Coordinator at Strategic Advocacy for Human Rights (a non-governmental organization). In this latter role, she oversaw the development of strategic advocacy guidelines to support the defense of women survivors of domestic violence in Afghanistan. She has also been involved in research projects on the death penalty in Papua New Guinea and jury reform in Tonga.
In 2025, she serves as a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Sharia and Law (FSH), UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. In this capacity, she engages in academic and research collaboration with Windy Triana, PhD, a faculty member of FSH UIN Jakarta. This collaboration is expected to strengthen UIN Jakarta’s international academic networks while advancing the integration of globally benchmarked scholarship and research.
Publication
- – Domestic Violence, Islam and Gender in Indonesia (Buku, Routledge, 2025)
- – CALD Communities as “Collateral Damage” in the Criminalization of Coercive Control (2025)
- – Commentary on Navigating Cultural and Religious Needs in Family Dispute Resolution (2024)
- – The contribution of Muslim Women Australia in the domestic and family violence space (2024)
- – Bureaucratic Violence: State Neglect of Domestic and Family Violence Victims in Aceh, Indonesia (2023)
- – Inside Indonesia's Religious Courts: An argument for domestic and family violence screening (2023)
- – Using Aceh's Qanun to expand protection for domestic violence victims (2022)
- – Reaching Out from the Ocean: Women’s Experiences Navigating the Anti-Domestic Violence Law in Aceh (Tesis PhD, 2022)
- – Book Review: Indonesia: State and Society in Transition (2022)
- – The politics of care: A case study of domestic violence in Aceh (2020)
- – Assessment of the Responsibility of Local Governments in Indonesia for the Management of Refugee Care (2021)
- – The False Promise of Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016? (2021)
- – Women and legal change in Asia special issue: Introduction (2023)
Contact
📧 Email: Balawyn.Jones@latrobe.edu.au