Taufiq Hanafi is interested in cultural politics, especially in regards to the production, regulation, supervision and distribution of (literary) texts. He has recently completed his PhD thesis Leiden University that looks into knowledge production in Indonesia under the New Order authoritarian regime and the state censorship that surrounds it. In the Netherlands, he is involved within the decolonization research project organized by KITLV, NIOD, and NIMH and from 2021 to 2022 has translated into Indonesian at least three books that resulted from the project, namely: Sporen vol betekenis: ‘Getuigen &Tijdgenoten’ over the Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog, Over de Grens: Nederlands Extreem Geweld in de Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog, 1945-1949, and Beelden van de Indonesische onafhankelijkheidsoorlog, 1945-1949. For the ERC project Textual Microcosm at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, Taufiq investigates the nuance and complexity in the interlinear translation of the Holy Quran into Sundanese.