Herdanang Ahmad Fauzan

Herdanang Ahmad Fauzan

Media Studies, Ecological Justice, Climate Policy

Talks and presentations

China in The World (CITW) Summit 2026

July 07, 2026

Lightning talk (30min), Courtyard by Mariott, Taipei City, Taiwan

I presented in a lightning talk titled “Mining the Loophole: How BRI-Aligned Nickel Projects Exploit Indonesia’s PSN Status to Override Small-Island Protections.” The presentation explored the critical intersection of the global energy transition and environmental justice by examining how extractive industries bypass legal protections for Indonesia’s vulnerable small islands. I detailed how projects leverage domestic regulatory loopholes, particularly National Strategic Project (PSN), to override Supreme Court and Constitutional Court safeguards. By tracing developments across Wawonii, Penebang, Poto, and Gag islands, the talk mapped how Chinese-linked capital and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) networks embed themselves through complex joint ventures and supply chains, demonstrating that formal domestic ownership often obscures true control over these upstream critical mineral nodes.

JERAA 2025: What Now? Towards Restorative, Reparative and Rights-based Journalism

December 01, 2025

Conference proceedings talk, Griffith University (School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science), Brisbane, Australia

I presented the primary findings of my master’s thesis from the University of New South Wales. My talk, titled “The dynasty next door: Framing and indexing within Australian news media coverage of Joko Widodo’s endorsement of Prabowo Subianto during the 2024 Indonesian presidential election,” explored how the Australian press navigates its coverage of democratic backsliding in neighboring Indonesia. Specifically, the presentation examined the media’s capacity to independently scrutinise foreign political developments and tested whether Australian journalism challenged or simply aligned with the “strategic silence” adopted by domestic political elites.