Trainers & Consultant

Irma Garnesia is a researcher, fact-checker, and data journalism trainer who has helped local and national journalists in Indonesia develop data-driven reporting models in their newsrooms. As a newsroom researcher, Irma is accustomed to producing data-based reports on various topics and conducting popular research. Recently, she graduated from the master’s program in Media and Communication Science at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany.

Expertise:

• Conducting and analysing surveys

• Qualitative and quantitative research

• Data analysis with Spreadsheet and R

• Data visualisation with Flourish, Timelinejs, simple mapping with Google Maps, and OSINT for fact-checking

Rezza is a journalist working as an Editor at Katadata Green, currently pursuing an MA in International Media Business at the University of Westminster. Throughout his decade-long career, he has covered issues related to business, the green economy, the environment, and sustainability.

He has received several awards and fellowships, including the Chevening Awards (2023), Thomson Reuters Changemaker (2022), Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) Fellow to cover COP 27 in Egypt (2022), and Grantee Fellow at the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund (2020). Since 2019, Rezza has been actively involved as an instructor and mentor at IDJN, particularly for data-driven environmental reporting.

Expertise:

• Reporting on environmental, climate, and economic issues
• Reading and understanding financial reports
• Scenario planning
• Market research and analysis

Louis Lugas is a web developer and graphic designer who has worked on various infographics and both interactive and non-interactive visual journalism. Lugas has created a range of infographics, interactive articles, news games, and web games for various media outlets and NGOs in Indonesia and internationally. The scope of his work is highly varied, encompassing research, data scraping, mapping, programming, and writing. He has previously worked for Tirto.id and is currently employed at Deduktif. Expertise:

• Data scraping and analysis with Python
• GIS processing/mapping with QGIS
• Interactive visual programming and web games with JavaScript
• Infographic design using Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator

She worked as a journalist from 2012 to 2016. She began her career as a reporter at a local daily newspaper in Solo (Solopos), then moved to an economic and business newspaper (Bisnis Indonesia). During that time, she covered issues related to the stock market, trade, tourism, and entrepreneurship. She continued her career as a researcher and data analyst at Katadata.co.id (2018-2019). Currently, she actively advocates for digital rights and addresses online gender-based violence (OGBV) in Indonesia with the Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet), while also working as a freelance analyst for several research and data companies.

Expertise:

• Digital security
• Data analysis

Kholikul Alim began his journalism career in 2011 as a reporter at Bisnis Indonesia, covering the stock market and agribusiness. He joined Jaring.id in 2015. In recent years, he has been extensively involved in training and mentoring journalists interested in producing data journalism work.

Expertise:

• Data analysis with spreadsheets
• Investigative journalism

Wan Ulfa has been actively providing training in data journalism since 2018, after completing an MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University, UK. A collaborative data-driven report on sexual violence on campus, which she worked on while at Tirto.id, received the SOPA Awards and Tasrif Awards. In addition to being a regular instructor at IDJN, she also teaches at Yayasan Pantau. Expertise:

• Data analysis with spreadsheets and R
• Data visualisation with Flourish, Datawrapper, Tableau, and R
• Spatial data analysis with QGIS
• Creating and analysing surveys
• Narrative writing
• Investigating with open data
• Web scraping with R and Python

Juma is a GIS Analyst at Pantau Gambut. He has extensive experience in conducting spatial analysis, including spatial research to understand earth observation and monitoring. Juma is skilled in operating spatial software and performing geocoding for expert spatial analysis.