ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the reader with some views on conducting research with Indonesian Muslim men. It draws on my long experience of ethnographic and mixed-method research in Australia and Indonesia. In keeping with the theme of this book, a narrative approach is taken, with emphasis on researcher experience and the actual practice of fieldwork. Perhaps the first and most important thing to be said about studying Indonesian Muslim men in these two countries is that social science research should always be rigorous, ethical, and respectful, and never more so than when conducted by a tertiary-educated, white, female, non-Muslim researcher with Muslim men from non-Anglo backgrounds. Equally important is the fact that conducting research in Muslim communities inevitably touches on political sensibilities at both the local and the global levels.
