Achmad Sahri

Achmad Sahri obtained his BSc degree in 2008 from Marine Science Bachelor Program in Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia. In 2013, he obtained his MSc degree in the Master Program of Coastal Resource Management at the same university, financially supported by Beasiswa Unggulan from the Indonesian Ministry of National Education.

In the period of 2010-2014, he was employed at The Nature Conservancy - Indonesia Marine Program as a Conservation Coordinator. He helped the Authorities of Wakatobi National Park and Derawan Islands Coastal Park in monitoring their conservation targets, one among them was on cetaceans, where the data collected from the monitoring programs were eventually used for his PhD. In March 2013, he attended the Conservation Coaches Training workshop in Cairns, Queensland, Australia held by The Nature Conservancy Australia and the Conservation Coaches Network. He was involved in a technical team for the establishment of Marine and Small Islands Conservation Areas in Berau, East Kalimantan from 2013 to 2014. This work was successfully finalised with the stipulation of Derawan Islands Coastal Park by a Regent Decree in 2014 (and finally with a Ministerial Decree in 2016).

In 2017, he was awarded a scholarship from the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) from the Indonesian Ministry of Finance. He started his PhD in the Marine Animal Ecology (MAE) Group, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands at the same year. In 2018, he attended the Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) workshop in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia and proposed two areas (Wakatobi and Tolitoli) as IMMA candidates. These two areas were eventually declared as IMMAs in 2019 by the Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He is the Point of Contact for the two declared IMMAs. Since February 2022, he is a researcher at the Research Center for Oceanography of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).