Arif Novianto is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL), Universitas Tidar, and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Governance and Public Affairs (IGPA), Universitas Gadjah Mada. He also serves as Chief Editor at Penerbit Independen (PIN). His academic work is situated at the intersection of political economy, labor studies, and critical policy analysis, with a particular focus on platform capitalism, gig work, and labor regimes in the Global South—especially Indonesia. Through his research, he critically examines how state regulation, corporate power, and digital platforms reshape labor relations and normalize new forms of precarity and super-exploitation.

His latest book, Cheap Labour Regime in Platform Capitalism: How Flexible Accumulation Fuels the Super-Exploitation of Gig Workers, was published by Springer in 2025 and advances a labor regime analysis of platform capitalism in developing economies. His scholarly publications include Searching for a Better Job: Indonesian Gig Workers and the Limits of Decent Work Agendas (Work Organization, Labor & Globalisation, 2023), Essential Workers Without Job Protection (Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 2023), and Gamification from Below as a Form of Resistance: Algorithmic Control, Precarity, and the Resistance Dynamics of Indonesian Gig Workers (New Technology, Work and Employment, 2025). In addition to journal articles, he has contributed as an editor to several influential Indonesian-language volumes, including Questioning Decent and Fair Work in Indonesia’s Gig Economy (IGPA Press, 2021) and Pseudo-Partnerships in the Gig Economy (IGPA Press, 2024).

Email: arifnovianto92@gmail.com or arifnovianto@untidar.ac.id