I am a graduate
of Aquatic Resources Management from Brawijaya University, Indonesia who is
enthusiast about coastal conservation and community development issues. After
graduating in 2016, I worked with an NGO in Malang that focused on preserving the coastal
ecosystem through ecotourism, working together with people who have practised destructive fishing or forest-use activities. After that, I worked as a
Field Facilitator and the Communication and Community Outreach Assistant for
Marine Protected Areas
(MPA) & Biodiversity at WWF Indonesia on the USAID Sustainable Ecosystems
Advanced project in West Papua. As a Field
Facilitator, I assisted
fisheries groups and local communities to implement Rights-Based Fisheries
Management in Bintuni Bay and supported
activities for implementing the MPA in South Sorong. Furthermore,
I helped to prepare awareness materials needed by local champions and shared
the story about behaviour changes in the community before and after an MPA
existed to government level through
radio broadcasting activities in Sorong. In February
2021,
I started working as a Research Assistant
for
ConHuB Indonesia
and I am looking forward to collecting data from people that live in the Gunung Leuser landscape,
Sumatra.