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Antonia Timmerman
Antonia Timmerman is Indonesian with a mixed heritage: Dutch, Chinese, and Manadonese. She is also an award-winning reporter, writer, and editor based in Jakarta. Over her ten years of experience as a journalist, Antonia has contributed to public knowledge in technology, business, labor, environment, and geopolitics in Southeast Asia. She has written for international publications such as South China Morning Post, VICE, The Diplomat, Nikkei Asia, and more. Antonia has won multiple awards for her journalism, including two Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards and a Best in Business Award from the U.S. Society of Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). For Antonia, poetry is a way to cope with her personal struggles and constant exposure to news and current affairs. Antonia is a vocal thinker with interests in culture, radical feminism, climate justice, and identity issues. She is an editor in the Chinese-Indonesian media collective Suara Peranakan, a Co-Chair at Jakarta Poetry Slam, and she occasionally hosts talks with the Jakarta Feminist Discussion Group. Find her stories at antoniatimmerman.com. |
