Dyna Rochmyaningsih is a freelance journalist whose works have appeared in Science Magazine, Nature, BBC Future, Mongabay, The Christian Science Monitor, Undark, Sapiens, Rest of World, and other outlets. From her home in rural Sumatra, she has written stories at the intersection of science and society in Indonesia, the Global South, and the Islamic World. In recent years, she has focused on covering science policy and the suppression of science in Indonesia. She also received support from National Geographic, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and Pulitzer’s Rainforest Journalism Fund, for her reporting on the environmental crisis in Indonesia. She led the Society of Indonesian Science Journalists (SISJ) 2020-2023 and named as a Knight Science Journalism (KSJ) fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology/MIT (2023/2024)

Melvinas Priananda is the Executive Director of the Society of Indonesian Science Journalism (SISJ). He is an alumnus of the Science Journalism COOperation (SjCOOP) Asia program created by the World Federation of Science Journalists which focuses on developing the quality of science journalists in various countries. And then became one of the founding members of the Society of Indonesian Science Journalists (SISJ). He has worked as a photojournalist in the media for more than ten years and was once trusted to be the Chair of the Indonesian Photojournalist – Pekanbaru. His photographic works have been published both nationally and internationally as well as in international non-profit organizations. Apart from taking pictures, he also often writes articles, especially those related to the environment and socio-culture.

Arli Aditya Parikesit is Professor of Bioinformatics in the Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences. His research is focused on the application of bioinformatics in health sciences settings. He is the academic editor and co-author of A Closer Look at Cancer Biomarkers (Nova Science Publisher, 2024), COVID-19 Drug Development - Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications (Intechopen, 2024), and Molecular Insight of Drug Design (Intechopen, 2018). He is on the editorial boards of BMC Bioinformatics, Makara Journal of Science, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Indonesian Journal of Biotechnology.

Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo is an assistant professor in health policy at Universitas Airlangga. His research focuses on the intersection of science journalism and the political process in health policy-making. He serves on the advisory board of The Indonesian Journal of Health Administration (IJHA) for publication ethics and is a member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW). He is an active contributor to the media and has initiated the Indonesian Science Communication Labs (IDSCL), writing popular science columns and campaigning for the Open Science movement in Indonesia. His current doctoral research project at LMU Munich is "Communicating Science: Collaboration Between Scientists and Journalists in Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia.”

Dimas D. Laksmana is a lecturer in sociology at Universitas Indonesia. His interest in understanding power relations in scientific knowledge production is reflected in his PhD dissertation “Knowledge in the making: Embodying transdisciplinary moments on organic agriculture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia” that he defended at Passau University, Germany. In addition to publishing scientific articles, he has written articles about youth in alternative agriculture and lived experiences of coconut tappers who are integrated into the global value chain of organic coconut sugar for popular magazines such as Inside Indonesia and the Newsletter from the International Institute for Asian Studies. He continues to work at the intersection of science and society by coordinating Science Field Shops – Universitas Indonesia, an arena for farmers’ agrometerological learning.

Sonja van Wichelen is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. Her research takes place on the cross-disciplinary node of law, life, and science in a globalising world. She is the author of Biolegality: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave, 2024—with Marc de Leeuw), Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology (Rutgers University Press, 2018), and Religion, Gender and Politics in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body (Routledge, 2010). She is on the editorial boards of Annual Review of Anthropology, Science, Technology, & Human Values, The Sociological Review, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.