Otto Hospes is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor of the Politics of Global Value Chains at IPB University, Indonesia. His research focuses on the international politics of sustainable food and agriculture, particularly the contestation between state and non-state actors from the Global South and Global North over sustainability governance. He has published widely on the governance of sustainable palm oil in Indonesia, including the RSPO and ISPO and conflicts between communities and companies. He is co-author of Rightless Resistance: Postcolonial Citizenship, Palm Oil and Land Grabbing in Indonesia. His recent work examines debates between the EU and countries in the Global South over EU ‘green’ legislation on renewable energy, deforestation, and due diligence, as well as the idea of norm subsidiarity as an alternative to regulatory unilateralism.Arya Hadi Dharmawan is Professor in Political Ecology of the Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB University, Indonesia. He is doing research primarily on the topics of agricultural expansion, rural livelihood, farm household livelihood resilience and vulnerability, agrarian changes, natural resources and environmental governance. His recent work on Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) in Indonesia, Oil Palm Adaptive Landscape (OPAL), and the impact of EUDR Policy in Indonesia.Athiqah Nur Alami is Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Politics, the National Research and Innovation Agency (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional-BRIN), Indonesia. Her main interests are Indonesia's labor migration, foreign policy and gender in International Relations. She has been part of the research team on Indonesia’s foreign policy for the last ten years. In the last three years, Athiqah and her team have been conducting research on Indonesia in the Indo-Pacific, gender in Indonesia's foreign policy, education for displaced children and forced migration. Her publication with the research team, "Indonesia’s engagement in the climate change negotiations: building national resilience", as part of the edited volume on Climate Change, Community Response and Resilience, was published in 2023.Helen E.S. Nesadurai is Professor of International Political Economy at Monash University Malaysia in the School of Arts and Social Sciences. From an original interest in the IPE of regional integration, governance, and state-based institutional architectures in Southeast Asia/ASEAN and the Asia Pacific, she has expanded her work to study non-state modes of transnational governance and their intersection with state authority in this region. Her recent work, “Challenging the EU Deforestation Regulation: Sovereignty games as authority contests in global governance” is accepted for publication in International Affairs in 2026.