Civic Engagement in Asia (PDF)

Mochamad Indrawan is a trained ecologist and conservation biologist with more than 3 decades of field experiences. Indrawan's voluntary rainforest conservation work since 2007 included continuous facilitation of indigenous peoples and local communities whose joint endeavor is focused on the establishment of community conservation areas. Indrawan served as a member of 2 IUCN specialist groups (World Commission on Protected Areas and Red List Authority), and also as a research associate at Kansas University, USA, as well as visiting scholar at Kyushu University, Kyoto University, Japan. Indrawan's research on Japanese socio-ecological system (satoyama) during his past tenure as Asian Public Intellectual (API) Senior Fellow resulted in cross countries' comparisons with Indonesian agroforestry systems. Among the books Indrawan have jointly edited were "Biologi Konservasi" and "Civic Engagement in Asia: Lessons in Transformative Learning in the Quest fora Sustainable Future" which was supported by APN - Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research. Indrawan is also proactively participating in international scholarly cooperation, e.g. serving as a member of UKRI - UK Research and Innovation's Peer Review College. Believing a megadiversity country like Indonesia needs to develop an adequate number of citizen scientists. Indrawan is also engaging with Indonesia Biodiversity Foundation (Yayasan KEHATI), with whom he focused the mission to rekindle public interests in the biological science of taxonomy. The books he is currently jointly editing are "Barefoot Taxonomists in a Megadiversity Country" (in Bahasa Indonesia), and "Environmental Governance" are both coming to a conclusion. Indrawan's latest endeavor involved advising "Plastic Finance", a wonderful new business start up from Indonesia who aim to mobilize plastic heroes from the former "scavengers" of Indonesia.