Education
Siti was the first woman to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in Islamic thought from the Syarif Hidayatullah Islamic State University in 1997.
Siti was the first woman to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in Islamic thought from the Syarif Hidayatullah Islamic State University in 1997.
She was the first woman appointed as a research professor with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, which she still works as, and she also works as a lecturer on Islamic political thought at the School of Graduate Studies of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Indonesia. Since 2007 Siti has also been the Chairperson of the non-governmental organization called Indonesian Conference on Religion for Peace. From 1999 until 2007 she was a Senior Advisor of the Minister of Religious Affairs, through which she was part of a team that created in 2004 a Counter Legal Draft of Indonesia"s Islamic legal code, which among other things recommended prohibiting child marriage and allowing interfaith marriage.
However, the Minister of Religious Affairs had to cancel the project due to violent protests.
From 2000 until 2005 she was the head of the Research Division of The Council of Indonesian Ulema.