Career
He is a professor of biosystematics and ecology at Institut Teknologi Bandung, a university located in Bandung, Indonesia. He has been the first to describe many species of amphibian, including the Bornean flat-headed frog (Barbourula kalimantanensis) in 1978, and, in 2014, Limnonectes larvaepartus, the only known frog that directly births tadpoles. He is the author of The Amphibians of Java and Bali.
The monotypic banded watersnake genus Djokoiskandarus is named in his honour, as are several species of lizard and frog.
Djokoiskandarus annulatus (2011)
Polypedates iskandari (2011)
Draco iskandari (2007)
Luperosaurus iskandari (2000)
Fejervarya iskandari (2001)
Ansonia glandulosa Iskandar & Mumpuni, 2004
Barbourula kalimantanensis Iskandar, 1978
Boiga hoeseli Ramadhan, Iskandar & Subasri, 2010
Calamaria banggaiensis Koch, Arida, Mcguire, Iskandar & Böhme, 2009
Cyrtodactylus batik Iskandar, Rachmansah & Umilaela, 2011
Cyrtodactylus nuaulu Oliver, Edgar, Mumpuni, Iskandar & Lilley, 2009
Cyrtodactylus wallacei Hayden, et al., 2008
Eutropis grandis Howard, Gillespie, Riyanto, Iskandar, 2007
Hemiphyllodactylus engganoensis Grismer, Riyanto, Iskandar & McGuire, 2014
Hylarana eschatia (Inger, Stuart, & Iskandar, 2009)
Hylarana megalonesa (Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2009)
Hylarana parvacola (Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2009)
Hylarana rufipes (Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2009)
Ingerana rajae Iskandar, Bickford, Arifin, 2011
Kalophrynus minusculus Iskandar, 1998
Limnonectes kadarsani Iskandar, Boeadi & Sancoyo, 1996
Limnonectes larvaepartus Iskandar, Evans & McGuire, 2014
Limnonectes sisikdagu McLeod, Horner, Husted, Barley & Iskandar, 2011
Litoria megalops (Richards & Iskandar, 2006)
Litoria purpureolata Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi & Iskandar, 2007
Litoria wapogaensis Richards & Iskandar, 2001
Occidozyga tompotika Iskandar, Arifin & Rachmansah, 2011
Oreophryne atrigularis Günther, Richards & Iskandar, 2001
Oreophryne furu Günther, Richards, Tjaturadi, and Iskandar, 2009
Oreophryne minuta Richards & Iskandar, 2000
Oreophryne wapoga Günther, Richards & Iskandar, 2001
Xenophrys parallela (Inger & Iskandar, 2005).