This organised panel explores the state of knowledge work in neoliberalising Indonesia using a feminist lens. Indonesia has an increasingly vibrant knowledge economy where universities are gradually geared to produce marketable education and research services efficiently, causing rising precarity and casualisation, especially among early careers and women academics. The panelists unpack the contradictions within the neoliberal reorganisation of universities, encouraging a critical discussion on ‘academics as neoliberal subjects’ who could articulate grievances about the nature of knowledge work by shaping a collective academic will based on everyday practices and engaged theoretical understanding of the social and cultural world.