Esya is a Data Analyst and Social Assistant within Daemeter’s Social, Smallholder and Livelihoods unit, working at the intersection of social fieldwork and digital data systems. She supports the firm’s social assessment and human rights work through field research, quantitative data analysis, and reporting across Indonesia’s land-use and extractive sectors, bringing a hybrid social-and-data analyst profile that is rare within the social KA.

Since joining Daemeter, she has contributed to human rights investigations in the nickel sector, supply chain impact assessments in tobacco, HCV assessments for palm oil, sustainability compliance assessments for palm oil mills, and social baseline assessments grounded in the FSC Remedy Framework. Her fieldwork spans interviews, focus group discussions, and field observation, complemented by GIS and spatial analysis skills developed through her geography training. She is currently building her expertise through Daemeter’s social team mentoring programme, covering FPIC, conflict resolution, HRIA and HRDD, and standards including the IFC Performance Standards, IRMA, FSC, and RSPO.

Esya is drawn to work that connects community-level fieldwork with broader social and environmental outcomes, and to the potential of data systems to make social performance more measurable. Before Daemeter, she assisted on university-led environmental research projects covering soil science, disaster risk modelling, and geospatial mapping, and co-founded an education platform promoting the Sustainable Development Goals to young people.

She holds a BSc in Environmental Geography from Universitas Gadjah Mada. She is a native Bahasa Indonesia speaker and fluent in English. Esya keeps a daily journal, laces up her roller skates whenever she can, hits the trails for a trek, and never passes a cat without saying hello.