Minako Sakai

Kepakaran penelitian beliau berfokus pada dinamika sosial dan ekonomi di Asia Tenggara, khususnya Indonesia, dengan tema utama meliputi ekonomi Islam, keuangan mikro syariah, pemberdayaan perempuan, serta identitas kelas menengah Muslim. Prof. Sakai dikenal melalui studinya tentang fenomena "mompreneurs" di Indonesia—bagaimana ibu rumah tangga Muslim mengintegrasikan kewirausahaan digital dengan nilai-nilai agama. Beliau aktif menjalin kolaborasi riset dengan berbagai institusi besar di Indonesia, seperti UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Universitas Indonesia (UI), dan Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), serta berkontribusi sebagai dewan redaksi untuk jurnal internasional seperti Studia Islamika dan Asia Pacific Anthropology.

Saat ini, dirinya aktif berkontribusi sebagai Professor Fellow di Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta untuk periode tahun 2025. Pada penugasan ini, beliau bermitra secara akademik dan riset dengan Prof. Amelia Fauzia, Ph.D. Kolaborasi ini diharapkan dapat memperkuat jejaring internasional UIN Jakarta sekaligus mendorong integrasi keilmuan dan riset berstandar global.

• Buku Suntingan
  • - Sakai, M.; Yasmeen, S. (Eds.) (2018). Narratives of Muslim Womanhood and Women's Agency. Routledge, London.
  • - Sakai, M.; Yasmeen, S. (Eds.) (2016). Islam and Christian Muslim Relations Special Edition: Vol.27 (3) Narratives of Muslim Womanhood: Women's Agency. Taylor & Francis.
  • - Sakai, M.; Jurriens, E.; Zhang, J.; Thornton, A. (Eds.) (2014). Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific: Agency and Resilience. Routledge, London.
  • - Saunders, P.; Sakai, M. (Eds.) (2012). Australian Journal of Social Issues, 47(3). Australian Council of Social Service Inc, NSW, Australia.
  • - Sakai, M.; Macknight, C. (Eds.) (2012). Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs. Association for the Publication of Indonesian and Malaysian Studies, Australia.
  • - Sakai, M.; Banks, G.; Walker, J. (Eds.) (2009). The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographical Perspectives. NUS Press, Singapore.
  • - Sakai, M. (Ed.) (2002). Beyond Jakarta. Crawford House, Adelaide.
• Book Chapter (Pilihan)
  • - Sakai, M. (2022). "Post-Disaster Recoveries in Indonesia and Japan: Building Back Better." In H. James, V. Sharma, R. Shaw, & A. Lukasiewicz (Eds.), Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific Governance, Education and Capacity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, pp. 291–322.
  • - Sakai, M. (2022). Several chapters in Gender Development and Social Change, Palgrave Macmillan, diantaranya: "Women Entrepreneurs, Islam and the Middle Class" (pp. 1–43), "Women and Entrepreneurship in Muslim Countries" (pp. 45–85), "Predicaments of Unmarried Career Women" (pp. 131–168), "Exemplifying Muslim Mompreneurs in Indonesia" (pp. 169–206), "To Be or Not to Be a Muslim Mompreneur in Indonesia" (pp. 207–243), dan "Negotiating Patriarchy as Contemporary Khadijah and Aishah" (pp. 245–258)
  • - Sakai, M.; Anoraga, B. (2020). "Education, Digital Enterprise, and Islam in the Indonesian Modern Embedded Economy." In S. Shamani & D. Marinova (Eds.), Muslim Women in the Economy: Development, Faith and Globalisation. Routledge.
  • - Sakai, M. (2020). "Modernising Sacred Sites in South Sumatra: Islamisation of Gumai Ancestral Places." In Potent Dead Ancestors Saints and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia. Routledge.
  • - Sakai, M.; Fauzia, A. (2018). "Performing Muslim Womanhood: Muslim Business Women Moderating Islamic Practices in Contemporary Indonesia." In Narratives of Muslim Womanhood and Women's Agency. Routledge.
  • - Sakai, M. (2018). "Fostering Affinity through Dreams and Origin Ritual Practices among the Gumay of South Sumatra, Indonesia." In J. Fox (Ed.), Expressions of Austronesian Thought and Emotions. ANU Press, Canberra.
  • - Sakai, M. (2016). Two entries in Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (Brill): "Economics: Islamic Banks: Indonesia", "Small Business: Indonesia"
  • - Sakai, M. (2014). "Resisting the Mainland: The Formation of the Province of the Bangka-Belitung (Babel)." In Autonomy and Disintegration in Indonesia. Routledge.
  • - Sakai, M. et al. (2014). Multiple chapters in Agency in Asia Pacific Disaster Relief. Routledge.
  • - Sakai, M. (2012). "Pengembangan Masyarakat Melalui Keuangan Mikro Islam: Melayani Kebutuhan Keuangan Orang Miskin Melalui Cara yang Dapat Lestari." In Ustadz Seleb, Bisnis Moral dan Fatwa Online, Komunitas Bambu.
  • - Sakai, M.; Banks, G.A.; Walker, J.H. (2009). Multiple chapters in The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia. NUS Press.
  • - Sakai, M. (2008). "Community Development Through Islamic Microfinance: Serving the Financial Needs of the Poor in a Viable Way." In Expressing Islam. ISEAS Publishers.
  • - Sakai, M. (2006). "The Environment, Overview." In Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. Brill.
  • - Sakai, M. (2006). "The Origin Structure of Kute Among the Gumai." In Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land. ANU E Press.
  • - Sakai, M. (2003). "Publicizing Rituals and Privatizing Meanings: Negotiating an Identity of the Gumai of Sumatra." In Founders' Cults in Southeast Asia. Yale University Press.
  • - Sakai, M. (2002). Multiple chapters in Beyond Jakarta. Crawford House.
  • - Sakai, M. (2002). "Modernising Sacred Sites in South Sumatra." In The Potent Dead. Allen and Unwin.
  • - Sakai, M. (2000). Multiple entries on ethnic groups in Sekai Minzoku Jiten (World Encyclopedia of the Ethnic Group). Kobundo, Tokyo.