I regularly speak and engage with audiences across universities, NGOs, government agencies, and public forums. My talks draw from ongoing research, offering grounded insights for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. I welcome invitations to present research findings, contribute to panel discussions, or collaborate on public-facing conversations.
"Governing Through Green Debts: Climate Finance and Inequality in Rural Southeast Asia," at the Institute for Public Policy Speaker Series, Atma Jaya University - Jakarta, Indonesia
“Governing Through Debt: Trading Mills, Peddling Credit, and Shifting Risk in Replanting Indonesia’s Plantation Economy,” at The 18th International Indonesia Forum - Jakarta, Indonesia.
“Green, Sustainable, Speculative: Debt and the Remaking of Indonesia’s Plantation Economy.” at The 2025 Arryman Symposium, Monash University - Jakarta, Indonesia
"Governing Through Green Debts: Climate Finance and Inequality in Rural Southeast Asia," at the Institute for Public Policy Speaker Series, Atma Jaya University - Jakarta, Indonesia
“Governing Through Debt: Trading Mills, Peddling Credit, and Shifting Risk in Replanting Indonesia’s Plantation Economy,” at The 18th International Indonesia Forum - Jakarta, Indonesia.
“Green, Sustainable, Speculative: Debt and the Remaking of Indonesia’s Plantation Economy.” at The 2025 Arryman Symposium, Monash University - Jakarta, Indonesia
“Plantation Debt: What, How, and Strategies for Economic Disobedience.” Just Transition in the Palm Oil Industry - Transnational Palm Oil Labor Solidarity, Sambas, Indonesia.
“Financial Ties Structuring Indonesia’s Plantation Economy.” Policy and Governance Approaches to Mitigation of Carbon Emissions in Southeast Asia’s Forest, Monash University - Jakarta, Indonesia
“Replanting Financial Gaps and the Indebted Worlds They Produce: Some Early Observations.” Graduate Seminar Series, Universitas Indonesia - Jakarta, Indonesia
“For it is in Giving that We Receive: Catholic Credit Unions and the Economic Missionization of Plantation Wealth.” at the Yale University – Indonesia Forum Conference - New Haven, USA.
“Debt and Plantations.” at the Indonesian Students’ Association in the United States (PERMIAS Nasional) Lecture Series - Chicago, USA.
“On Living Just Enough for the Plantation.” at the AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies - Michigan, USA.
“Stuck and Confused: Plantation Indebtedness and the Morality of Impoverishment.” at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association Section on Development - online
“The Art of Getting By: Radical Hope and Multispecies Collaboration in the Plantation.” at the Yale University -Indonesia Forum Conference - New Haven, USA.
“Who Really Feeds the World? Indonesia Mega Food Estates Plan and Smallholders’ Welfare in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic.” at The 20th Northeastern Conference - Ithaca, USA.
“When The Forest Disappears: Land Dispossession and Palm Oil Tree Fetishism in West Kalimantan.” at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting - Vancouver, Canada.
“Making God and the Devil: Commodity Fetishism and Capitalist Desire in a West Kalimantan Palm Oil Plantation.” at The 2019 Arryman Symposium; Evanston, USA and Jakarta, ID.
Lecture 1. Transnational Palm Oil Labour Solidarity (TPOLS) Network Talk #2 (2024)
Invited by the TPOLS to discuss several findings from my dissertation work on plantation debts and reflect on its implication to oil palm labour organizing today.
Lecture 2. PERMIAS Nasional Inversi XI (2022)
Invited by the Indonesian Student Organization in the United States (PERMIAS) to discuss my dissertation proposal.