I am a researcher at the Research Centre for Politics within the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) in Indonesia. I hold a PhD from Leiden University. My research focuses on environmental governance, climate adaptation, and local politics in Southeast Asia. I examine how the political economy of natural resources and state-society relations influence environmental crises, conflict patterns, resilience, and everyday political dynamics.

Education

• PhD, Leiden University, 2020–2025. Dissertation: The Politics of Dry Feet: Political Economy of Flood Risk Management in Indonesia. Supervisors: Prof. Diana Suhardiman, Prof. Ward Berenschot, Dr. David Kloos
• MA (Honours), Asia and Pacific Studies. The Australian National University (ANU), 2014–2015. Thesis: fear, electoral politics, and state–society relations in Indonesia outer island. Supervisor: Prof. Robert Cribb
• BA, Politics and Government. Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, 2004–2009

Experiences

• Individual Researcher, Ocean Literacy for Journalists in Southeast Asia. (UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Western Pacific, 2026).
• Principal Investigator, Exploring the Materiality of Resistance: Geothermal Governance in Indonesia (National Research and Innovation Agency, 2025).
• Team member. “Global South Losses and Damages: Qualitative Approach to Frame Losses and Damages in Jakarta Coastal Megacity. Sasakawa Peace Foundation Japan. 2024 – 2025 
• Co-Applicant / Co-investigator. “Towards sustainable river water quality management in the Brantas Basin East Java, Indonesia.” LDE (Leiden, Delft, Erasmus) University Alliance Grant.
• Principal Investigator, “Who Owns the River? Competing for the Water Access in Contemporary Java, Indonesia” in River Cities as Method – International Institute for Asian Studies, Universiteit Leiden.
• Principal Investigator. “Managing Elections in the wake of Natural Hazards: Indonesia 2020 Regional Elections, (International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA-Sweden), 2022)”.
• Principal Investigator. “State Capacity and Natural Resources Management, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – The Asia Foundation, 2019)”
• Team Member. “Education, Democracy and the Legacy of Conflict: Prospects and Challenges of History and Civic Education in Indonesia, (KU Leuven & Universitat Heidelberg, 2018-2019)“
• Team Member. “State and religious authority expansion, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – National Development Planning Agency, 2018 – 2019)“
• Team Member. “Local-Global Nexus on Knowledge Production of Indonesia Decentralization, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) -National Development Planning Agency, 2017-2019)“
• Principal Investigator. “Regional Government Capacity on Natural Resource Management in Indonesia: Sub-national Comparative Analysis, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), 2017-2018)“
• Team Member. “Intolerance and Radicalism in Indonesia Nine Provinces: A Strategic Assessment, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – National Development Planning Agency, 2018)“
• Team Member. “Vote Buying in Indonesia Local Elections, (Department of Politics and Government UGM – Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs The Australian National University, 2017)“
• Team Member. “Natural Resources Management in Indonesia: Prediction and Scenario Building, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – Indonesia State Intelligence Agency, 2017)“
• Team Member. “Countering Radicalism and Religious Intolerance in Indonesia: Strategic Assessment Report, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) – Research and Higher Education Ministry, 2017)“
• Team Member. “Conflict of Water Access in Banten and Bali: Strategy and Negotiation, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), 2016)“
• Politicization Fear Of Crime in Indonesia Outer Island: Case of Central Lombok District, (The Australian National University 2015, Master Thesis under the supervision of Prof. Robert Cribb)
• Principal Investigator. “Elites and Violence Groups in West Nusa Tenggara Province: Study of Political Violence in Indonesia Outer Island, (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), 2013)“