About the Writer

Fickry completed his undergraduate degree in May of 2009, majoring Communications Studies in the Faculty of Social and Political Siences at Gadjah Mada University. In 2006, during his involvement with the peace generation community, which has been working in cooperation with the American friend service committee (AFSC), an american NGO, Fickry became a guest speaker at the international peace issue training in Bangkok, Thailand.

He was also awarded The Peace Scholarship Program in 2008 by IDP Australia which allowed him to study at University of Canberra for one semester; He calls himself a simple social butterfly as he frequently engages in social media such as blogs and micro blogging. Now he is working as Yogyakarta Program Assistant at ACICIS (Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies).