Endy Bayuni

Endy Bayuni is a highly respected media professional with over four decades of experience in journalism. He currently serves on the Oversight Board for Facebook (META), and other boards like the TIFA Foundation, Yayasan Humanis, Inovasi Sosial (formerly Hivos Southeast Asia), the Conversation Indonesia, and the International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ). He was a recipient of the East West Center Senior Fellowship at Washington DC office in 2010, the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2003-2004, and the Jefferson Fellowship at the East West Center of the University of Hawaii in 1999. He is senior editor and advisor to the Board of Editors of the English-language news media The Jakarta Post, where he served as its editor-in-chief between 2004-2010 and 2016-2018. He writes commentaries regularly, offering deep insights on issues such as the challenges to Indonesia’s democracy, the role of political Islam, the country’s foreign policy and the changing media landscape. They are published in The Jakarta Post and foreign publications, such as The New York Times and Nikkei Asia. He has also actively participated in international conferences at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC and the Lowy Institute in Sydney.