ISONO SADOKO

Board/Senior Researcher

Isono Sadoko, commonly called Sonny, is one of the founders of AKATIGA who is still active today. Sonny has extensive experience in evaluation and safeguard research. Currently, Sonny serves as a guiding body as well as a senior researcher involved in various AKATIGA research and programs. Some of his involvement in AKATIGA includes being a study coordinator and supervisor related to evaluation monitoring in the Family Hope Program, efforts to improve basic services, and business and gender barriers in SMEs for export. Currently, Sonny is involved in the Perempuan Kawal JKN program and is involved in the program area.

Previously, Sonny was a consultant at HIVOS and has experience with the World Bank, particularly in training young specialists on the social impacts on the poor of projects. Sonny holds Master’s degrees from Columbia University, the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, and the Institute of Housing Studies in the Netherlands after graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture from ITB.

His most recent publication is Generational Reproduction of Indonesian Smallholder Farming: Cases From Java and Flores (2025) published in the Journal of Agrarian Change and the book Kisah Kader Perempuan Kawal JKN 2021-2025.

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