Recent work

Simanjuntak, Atmaezer. Forthcoming. “Red Earth, Green Lies: Oil Palm, Debt, and Socio-Ecological Calamity.” Journal of Asian Labour Review.

Simanjuntak, Atmaezer. in the pipeline. "Governing Through Debt: Trading Mills and Peddling Credit in Indonesia's Plantation Economy." Economy and Society.

Saputra Adiwijaya, Chaidir Adam, Muhammad Arief Rafsanjani, Sustiyah, and Atmaezer Simanjuntak. 2024. “Between Entrepreneurship and Community Empowerment: The Management Model of Empowering Small Business’ Borneo Queen Community." In Jurnal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat, Vol. 7, No. 2. 

Simanjuntak, Atmaezer and Rudy Erwinsyah. 2021. “Smallholders’ Welfare and Food Security in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: a Critical Review of Indonesia’s Mega Food Estates Plan”. In Sosio Informa, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Simanjuntak, Atmaezer. 2019. “Making God and the Devil: Commodity Fetishism and Capitalist Desire in a West Kalimantan Palm Oil Plantation.” Working Paper. Equality Development and Globalization Studies, Buffett Institute.

Simanjuntak, Atmaezer. 2018. “The Collapsing Dayaknese Totem: Palm Oil Plantation and the Waning of Religiosity in West Kalimantan.” In KnE-Social, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Simanjuntak, Atmaezer. Forthcoming. "Dreams of Scale: From Koperasi Merah Putih to Hedge Funds and IPOs." Inside Indonesia.

Ansori Sofyan, Atmaezer Simanjuntak, and Perdana Roswaldy. 2025. "Jangan Minta Rakyat Bersyukur Cuaca Membaik, Kalau Deforestasi dan Eksploitasi Alam Terus Dibiarkan." The Conversation Indonesia. [in Bahasa Indonesia]

Simanjuntak, Atmaezer. 2025. “Palm Oil's Future Built on Borrowed Time.” Sustainable Palm Oil Choice. https://www.sustainablepalmoilchoice.eu/palm-oils-future-built-on-borrowed-time/.

Simanjuntak, Atmaezer. 2023. "The Totality of Agribusiness: A Response to Alex Blanchette's Porkopolis." Exertions. https://anthrowork.org/collections/book-forum-porkopolis/the-totality-of-agribusiness/

Saraswati Soegiharto, Sri Najiyati, Danarti Danarti, Rukmini Nugroho Dewi, Habibullah Habibullah, Sugiyanto Sugiyanto, Ririn Purba, Tedi Gunawan, Eko Wahyono, Rudy G Erwinsyah, Atmaezer Simanjuntak. 2026. "Social Capital Perspective in Rural Development Policy: Analysis of Indonesia Village Regulatory." in Rural Futures: Innovation, Resilience, and Sustainable Development, edited by Pushan Kumar Dutta and Sonal Trivedi. New York: Jenny Stanford Publishing.

Simanjuntak, Atmaezer. 2022. "Sustaining Life, Building Hope: Multispecies Collaboration in an Oil Palm Plantation." In Merengkuh Sauh Berlayar Jauh: Diskursus Kebaruan Antropologi di Indonesia, edited by Khidir Marsanto and Realissa Masardi. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: UGM Press. [in Bahasa Indonesia]