Vita
2022 – today
PhD candidate at HIFMB/AWI, Oldenburg
2021 – 2022
Environmental policy translator in Fisheries Progress
2018 – 2019
Aquaculture governance relation in Alune Aqua
2016 – 2018
MSc student in Marine Governance Environmental Policy at Wageningen University and Research (WUR), the Netherlands
2011 – 2015
BSc student in Fisheries and Marine at Universitas Airlangga
Research Interests
My research interest lies in the intersection between science, technology, and human geography to understand how the tripartite produces specific knowledge to define who can or cannot access space and resources. With this interdisciplinary approach, I aim to deconstruct dominant narratives that portray landscape and seascape as empty spaces. This work is crucial and urgent because, in environmental regulatory intervention, governance actors often use colonial, hierarchical, and vertical approaches to control, manage, and regulate the environment without considering human and non-human relations in particular spaces (sea and land). In this way, this god’s view tends to occlude how the environmental regulations affect and are affected by humans and non-humans within the physical space. Thus, excluding humans and non-humans that experience and make a relation to the space, the regulatory intervention may instead result in environmental justice issues by privileging powerful governance actors’ interests in the space and resources over those who reside in the material site. Given this broad research interest and shared expertise, my work is associated with Kate Sammlers, former head of the Marine Political Ecology focus group. My current research project is called Benthic Geopolitics, funded by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). This research project aims to incorporate benthic relations (human, non-human, and seabed relations) in the current geopolitical thinking of the seabed. With this research project, I examine the seabed meaning-making in Indonesia from the perspectives of governance actors working in seabed mining, undersea cables, and undersea pipelines. My two papers from this project are still under review and ready for submission to peer-reviewed journals.