Dr. Amirul Mukminin will conduct comparative research on teacher education policy in the US and Indonesia at Claremont Graduate University, California, for six months.

Dr.Mukminin holds a bachelor’s degree in English teaching from University of Jambi, a master’s in education from Groningen University, The Netherlands, and, with a Fulbright scholarship, a PhD in educational policy studies from Florida State University, with a dissertation entitled “From East to West: A Phenomenological Study of Indonesian Graduate Students’ Experiences on the Acculturative Process at an American Public Research University”.

He works as a lecturer at the University of Jambi.