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x(co-authored with Gunawan Wiradi, Ohio University Press, 2012); A Long Wait That Is Not Yet Over:Reflections on Ten years of Reformasi in the Context of Agrarian Reform (co-authored with Anton Lucas and CarolWarren, Ohio University Press, 2012); Six Decades of Inequality: Land Tenure Problems in Indonesia (coauthoredwith Gunawan Wiradi, ARC Books, 2011); Australian Overseas Development Assistance and the RuralPoor: AusAID and the Formation of Land Markets in Asia-Pacific (the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, 2009)and Land, Rural Social Movements and Democratisation in Indonesia (the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam,2009).Hikmat Darmawan is an Indonesian movie critic and an independent researcher of popular culture, with aparticular interest in movies and comics. He is a co-founder of www.rumahfilm.org, an Indonesian online moviejournal. He has written for Indonesian national newspapers and magazines such as Kompas and Tempo since1994. He contributed to Paul Gravett’s 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (Universe/Cassell). His bookabout comics, Dari Gatot Kaca Hingga Batman, Potensi-potensi Naratif Komik (From Gatot Kaca to Batman,Comics’ Narrative Potentials) was published in 2005. He is preparing another four books about comics in BahasaIndonesian, including one book about his first month in Japan during the API fellowship. It will be titled Sebulandi Negeri Manga (A Month in Manga Nation).Maria Joselina Anna G. Cruz is a curator based in Manila, the Philippines, where she is director/curator of theMuseum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB). In2008, she was co-curator for the Singapore Biennale. In 2010, she curated Creative Index, a multi-site exhibitionin Manila, and the following year she was curator for Roving Eye at the S?rlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand(SKMU), Norway. Her other curated shows include You are not a Tourist, at the Curating Lab, Singapore, andAll the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, at the Singapore Art Museum. She was alsocurator-in-charge of the Tapies retrospective at the Singapore Art Museum. She received a visitorship from theMondriaan Foundation (The Netherlands) and from the Office of Contemporary Art (OCA) in Norway. Shereceived her M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London. She has been nominatorfor several art prizes in Asia and Europe and continues to write essays, reviews, criticism, and art commentary.Kenta Kishi was born in 1969 in Tokyo. He received a B.A. in Architecture from the Tokyo University of theArts and an M.A in Architecture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, the USA. After graduatingfrom Cranbrook, he conducted several experimental design studios at art institutions in Singapore. In 1998, hestarted his professional career in Japan. Since 2007, he has been directing international urban study projects,conducted through the Crisis Design Network (CDN), together with architects, artists and other professionalsfrom the US and Asian countries. He is also directing the urban study organization, Orange House Studio, inSurabaya, together with local partners.Khosit Elvezio Kasikam is a nature lover. After graduating in Thai Traditional Medicine at Chiangrai RajabhatUniversity, Thailand, he began teaching at a development organization. His main interest and intention is to helppeople to realize the preciousness of the wisdom of their ancestors, and how to care for themselves using thatwisdom. He treats people with easily available herbs and using methods that anyone can easily learn. He alsofosters networks of influential persons in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in relation tolocal wisdom.Kritsana Kaewplang obtained her B.A. at Thammasat University in Thailand. Thereafter, she immediatelyjoined the Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation Club, where she gained exposure toenvironmental issues during activities such as a campaign against dam construction on the Moon River in UbonRatchathani province. After graduation, she began a career with environmental and humanitarian nongovernmentorganizations, including the Wildlife Fund Thailand (WWF Thailand), the United Nations HighCommissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), WildAid, and the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand. She returnedto her home town, Surin, after spending a year abroad as an API fellow. Kritsana is the founder of a socialenterprise called the Hug Nature Project. She currently works as an assistant manager for WWF Thailand’sWildlife Trade Campaign. She has also been a freelance creative worker for a TV program, a proofreader, a writerand a painter.The Work of the 2010/2011 API Fellows