Hana is an editor and researcher with three years of experience in publications and creative agencies. She graduated from the University of Sussex with a Master's in Philosophy and Literature with distinction, after accomplishing her Bachelor's Degree in English Literature in her hometown of Jakarta, Indonesia.
Her publications include short features on lifestyle and more extended, in-depth pieces on culture and politics. Her works can be found in independent Jakarta-based newspapers with the likes of The Jakarta Post and Manual Jakarta, alongside periodicals by arts and music collective Studiorama and the London-based politics magazine Res Publica, reflecting her broad and profound interests in philosophy, culture, and design.
Today, Hana works as a reporter and journalist for the GSMA's news body, Mobile World Live. There, she regularly publishes news coverage around big tech and emerging technologies.
Projects
- Sound + Vision: ‘Siti’ – A Life UnheardSound + Vision is a column that pairs film reviews with playlists inspired by the films reviewed. One of the guest writers for this issue is Hana Oktavia Anandira, who chose Eddie Cahyono’s Siti as her subject. A modern, black and white film that is also one of the best Indonesian films of the last decade.
- Chuck Klosterman: “But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past.”Perceiving the “now” through the future’s lens is undoubtedly a tricky, if not impossible, task. Yet, American pop culture essayist Chuck Klosterman attempts to leave no trending (and some, outdated) inventions and sociocultural affairs unchallenged. From gravity to literature, cinema to ideology, modern society has surely got some things right. But what if we’re wrong?
- A Meditation on Javanese Dances in CinemaWhere sexuality and mysticism meld, the ostensibly controversial nature of Javanese dance has put the tradition under a threat of vanishing. But as an art form, Javanese dance offers philosophical and spiritual narratives that challenge us to observe the transgression of opposites, and cinema might be the answer to keep this heritage alive.
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Work history
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ReporterGSMA
London, United KingdomFull Time
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Freelance ContributorThe Jakarta Post
- Jakarta, IndonesiaFreelance
The Jakarta Post is a leading English-language newspaper in Indonesia that covers a broad spectrum of stories, including politics, economy, music, arts, and culture. My role as an editorial contributor consists of proposing and submitting editorial features on arts and culture and attending press conferences where available. In my brief affiliation with The Post, I have published a story on the design culture as seen in literary publications as a device to engage with the youth, as well as representing the team in online press conferences that gravitate toward the local music industry.
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Skills
- Feature Writing
- Editorial Content
- Editorial Writing
- Research Projects
- Academic Writing
- Interview Transcribing
- Communication
- Content Writing