Team Biography

Muhammad Zayyanul Afwani

Indonesia Researcher, WRI Indonesia

Zayyan is a Remote Sensing Assistant for WRI Indonesia. His scope of work consists of supporting Cities4Forests in Indonesia to explore various geospatial mapping methodologies that will benefit ongoing projects. He also collaborates with the Jakarta Government to provide spatial databases that will be used to develop Jakarta’s tree inventory.

Before joining WRI Indonesia, he worked as a GIS Engineer at Esri Indonesia and at Conservation International in building a centralized website to monitor the rates of shark and ray catches in Indonesia. Zayyan holds a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada. He loves to explore new technology that can encourage humans to learn how to achieve a better livelihood. Apart from his work, he likes reading books, going to the coffee shops, swimming, and listening to instrumental music.