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Life After Postgrad: Experiences from Australia & Indonesia - Postgraduate Students Day
Special Event
Session Description
Panelists:
- Farwiza Farhan - Renowned environmental activist and 2024 Ramon Magsaysay awardee Farwiza Farhan will discuss Indonesia’s environmental governance, reflecting on the progress and challenges that have unfolded in the eight decades since the country’s independence. Farhan, internationally celebrated for her work in environmental conservation and social justice, will chart the evolution of environmental policies and practices in Indonesia, examining how colonial legacies, post-independence developmentalism, and contemporary socio-political dynamics have shaped the country’s approach to natural resource management.
- Annisa Beta - Dr Annisa R. Beta is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow (2023-2025) and a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Before joining the University of Melbourne, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore, where she also completed her PhD. She is the author of Pious Girls (Routledge, 2024) and a co-founder of Anotasi and Jaringan Etnografi Terbuka.
- Gietty Tambunan - Dr Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan is a lecturer in the English Studies Program and currently serves as the Head of the Literature Postgraduate Program at the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. She earned her PhD in Cultural Studies from Lingnan University, Hong Kong, in 2013, after completing master's studies in Cultural Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands in 2010 at Universitas Indonesia in 2007. In early 2024, she was a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Germany. Most recently, she was a visiting scholar under the Indonesia Initiative Program at the University of Melbourne for three weeks in March and April 2025. Her doctoral research explored the transnational flow of East Asian television dramas in Indonesia within the context of cultural globalization. Her current research focuses on the dynamics of digital media and diaspora, particularly the experiences of Indonesian female migrant vloggers.
- Erick Hansnata - Dr Erick Hansnata is a Principal Economist at FWPA, one of the Research and Development Corporations under the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. He manages levy investments in research and initiatives to improve the timber industry’s productivity, competitiveness, and sustainability. Previously, he was a Senior Economist at KPMG Australia, advising on health economics and fiscal policy, and a Senior Regulatory Economist with the ACT Government, overseeing utility pricing and the territory’s full renewable energy scheme. Erick was also a Research Fellow at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), focusing on economic modelling and social policy analysis