Dr Sadiah Boonstra is a cultural historian and curator. She currently combines her appointment as Asia Scholar at Melbourne University with being an independent curator in Jakarta, Indonesia. In her broad cultural practice, she merges academic expertise  with curation, producing, and public programming.  She is fascinated by the entanglement of the past and the present, especially when it concerns the legacies of history, heritage and the arts of colonial and contemporary Indonesia. Taking a decolonial approach Sadiah works with contemporary visual and performing artists to challenge dominant discourses on contemporary stages, in museums and galleries.