In 2021 Rini is involved in the following collaborative research projects:

1. “Asia Pacific ClimateScapes: exploring opportunities, challenges, and trade-offs toward just transitions for decarbonization” (funded by the British Academy)

2. “Mapping the Political Ecology of the Edible Birds’ Nests Trade in Indonesia” (funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Project)

3. “Sustainable Governance of the Transboundary Environmental Commons in Southeast Asia” (funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education’s Social Science Research Council)

4. “Enhancing the participation of marginalized women of customary community in Indonesia’s Social Forestry Program” (funded by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research)