Profil

Kelana Wisnu is a researcher and investigative multimedia producer currently working as a program associate with a civil society organization. Using collaborative methods, technology, and various multimedia, his work—published across numerous outlets in Southeast Asia—focuses on the intersection of human rights, transnational crime, conflict, colonialism, and technology.

 

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Honors and Awards

• Citra Awards Nominees for Best Short Documentary, Indonesian Film Festival 2024
  
• Best Data-Driven Investigative Reporting, Indonesian Data Journalism Awards 2024
  
• Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), Resilience Fellowship on Human Rights and Organized Crime, 2023-2024 

Journal Article/Book Chapter/Prosiding

• "Penemuan Humanisme Pascakolonial dalam Solidaritas Sastra Transnasional" in Kumpulan Makalah Simposium Khatulistiwa 2022 
  
• "Bersenandung di Tengah Badai: Musik dalam Dinamika Kekerasan Antikomunis" in Jurnal Sejarah Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021)
  
• "Elang Liberal di Kaki Langit Indonesia" in FINKS: Bagaimana CIA Mengelabui Sastrawan Besar Dunia, Joel Whitney terj. Al Mukhlishiddin (Pustaka Pias, 2021)

Conference:

• Orchestrating Immutable Songs: Re-reading the Impact of the 1965 Mass Killings on Indonesian Music History accepted to be presented at 1st Altersea Videoconference hosted by Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, EHESS-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), Paris, France, 7—9 July 2021. 
• Silence Speaks When The Words Can't: The 1965—1966 Mass Killings in Banyuwangi through Endro Wilis’s Songs accepted to be presented at 5th International Conference on Genocide at California State University, Sacramento in the University Union, United States of America, 1—3 November 2018; 

Speakers:

• Social commitment in literature and the arts: Conflicting narratives of Indonesia’s leftist culture  Monash Indonesia Seminar Series (MISS) along with Dr. Keith Foulcher and Prof. Julian Millie hosted by Monash University Library and Monash Herb Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre 26 November 2020.
  

 Copyedit:

• FINKS: Bagaimana CIA Mengelabui Sastrawan Besar Dunia, oleh Joel Whitney terj. Al Mukhlishiddin (Pustaka Pias, 2021)
• Komitmen Sosial dalam Sastra dan Seni: Sejarah Lekra 1950-1965, oleh Keith Foulcher terj. Rima Febriani (Pustaka Pias, 2020)

Articles in Media:

1. Eksperimen Komputasi Sastra: Pembacaan Jauh atas 29 Novel Pemenang Sayembara DKJ 1998–2021 (Tengara, Situs Kritik Sastra Dewan Kesenian Jakarta) 
2. Sastra di Persimpangan Penulisan Sejarah (Tengara, Situs Kritik Sastra Dewan Kesenian Jakarta)  
3. Menelusuri Jejak Podho Nginang (Jurnal Ruang)
4. Musim Kelima Dunia dan Abad Genosida  (Jurnal Ruang / Penerbit Komunitas Bambu)
5. Jejak Berdarah Gorbachev Saat Memimpin Soviet (Narasi)   
   

 

Interviewed and featured:

1.  Nasib istri merayakan Lebaran tanpa suami yang ‘disandera’ di Myanmar - 'Dia dipukuli saat malam takbiran' (BBC Indonesia)
   
2. Rumah Soedjatmoko di Menteng Jadi Museum Arsip, Ceritakan Perjalanan Sang Dubes Semasa Hidup (Tempo)
3. Melihat perjalanan Soedjatmoko langsung dari kediamannya (Antara)
4. Driven By Design: Indie Publishers Bring Back Love for Physical Book (Jakarta Post)  
5. Makna Ruang Publik Bagi Seniman Bandung di Masa Pandemi (Tempo)
   
6. Jungkir Balik Memperkenalkan Nick Drake ke Publik Indonesia Lewat Buku (Vice)