Rakhmat Hidayat is a postdoctoral researcher at the Social Science Faculty, Tampere University, Finland. His research focuses on the sociology of ethnicity, conflict, indigenous people, minority groups, sociology of social movement, and theory of sociology. His research particularly focuses on minority groups in Southeast Asia and Indonesia, specifically, as his home country. He has conducted ethnographical fieldwork research on Indonesia's minority groups, such as the Sunda Wiwitan community. Previously, he was an Interfaith Fellow on the project Southeast Asia: Advancing Inter-Religious Dialogue and Freedom of Religion or Belief funded by the European Union (2019), a visiting researcher at KITLV-VU Amsterdam (October-November 2017), guest lecturer at Leipzig University, Germany ( June 2016), and a visiting researcher at Leipzig University, Germany (May-June 2015). Rakhmat has been educating professionals (teachers, researchers, sociologists) through a variety of training sociology programs, several lectures and workshops, and in the management of social and minority advocacy. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology education at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, France.