REPORTING GRANTS:
Journalism Fund Europe 2023 grantee, investigating palm oil industry.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 2023 grantee, exploring the life of coastal communities.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Your Work/Environment 2022 grantee, exploring the impact of climate change on businesses and labor.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 2021 grantee, with stories on child sex trafficking, published by LA Times, SCMP, Tirto.id.
Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism 2021 grantee investigating illegal pandemic waste dumping.
Internews Earth Journalism Network (EJN) 2021 special grantee investigating the impact of gold mining operation.
Internews Earth Journalism Network (EJN) 2021 grantee investigating uneven distribution of electricity generated by coal-fired power plants.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 2021 grantee, with stories revolving around Indonesia’s COVID-19 mass inoculation, published by the Jakarta Post, the Washington Post, and Rest of World.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 2020 grantee, producing under-reported COVID-19 stories published by New Naratif and Mongabay.
Oxfam COVID-19 Journalism Project 2020, exploring how the pandemic has greatly impacted informal workers in Indonesia.
Internews Earth Journalism Network (EJN) Asia Pacific Investigative Environmental Story 2020 grantee, investigating corruption on environmental sector.
Civicus Innovation For Change (I4C) 2020 Journalistic Research grantee focusing on state-driven disinformation and the rise of religious populism and intolerance, with research titled ‘The Evolution of Disinformation Ecosystem in Indonesian Politics.’
ORGANIZATION:
Member of Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).
Grantee and Member of Overseas Press Club of America 2021-2022.
FELLOWSHIPS/SEMINARS/TRAININGS:
Speaker at Climate & Labor conference organized by Pulitzer Center, Bangkok, Thailand, February 22-24, 2024.
Speaker at Climate & Labor global conference organized by Pulitzer Center and Universidade Coimbra, Portugal, April 18-19, 2023.
Speaker at Mobile Journalism Workshop by Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) and Atma Jaya University Jakarta, January 10, 2023.
HEFAT training organized by Rainforest Journalism Fund, WAN IFRA, and Key Objectives. Nov-Dec, 2021.
Speaker at Pulitzer Center’s Workshops for Educators: Elevating Underreported Stories of Resilience in the Classroom through Global News and Media Literacy, July 2021.
Participant of Global Exchange on Religion in Society (GERIS) project, June 2021, organized by the European Union, Media Diversity Institute, and Particip.
Reporting on COVID-19: Safety, online courses held by Thomson Foundation, April 28 2020.
Speaker at ASEAN Youth Peace Campaign Lab, 27-28 February 2020, at State Islamic University Jakarta, exploring the role of youth and media in countering violent extremism.
Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) 12th Journalists’ Seminar on Media Trust and Information in the Digital Age in Madrid, Spain on 13-14 December 2019, with a presentation titled ‘Bots-for-hire: The Rise of Pro-Government Propaganda Cyber Troops, Distorting Truth and Manipulating Public Opinion’, examining online pro-government propaganda in Papua conflict and September 2019 student protests across Indonesia.
Panel speaker at 2019 World Press Freedom Day in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 1-3 May, exploring the role of media in conflict-prone areas to bring meaningful narratives.
2018 Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) Journalism Fellowship and grant, 28-29 September in Bangkok, Thailand exploring theme of state-sponsored disinformation and internet governance.
MEDIA APPEARANCES:
Interviewed on NPR’s Here & Now about the aftermath of Cianjur earthquake.
Interviewed on BBC Northern Ireland on the evacuation process of Cianjur earthquake.