Muhammad Rum is a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada. He earned a PhD from the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, on his dissertation entitled the Politics of Disasters in ASEAN: Development of International Cooperation in Disaster Management in ASEAN. He obtained a master degree in ASEAN Studies from the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. He attended undergraduate program on International Relations at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada.