Pujo Semedi

Dr. Pujo Semedi is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada. His research is focused on rural-agricultural economic and ecological issues, and he carried out fieldwork among fishers and farmers in Java, Kalimantan, and South Germany. His works include Rubber, Oil Palm and Accumulation in West Kalimantan, 1910s-2010s (2022); Plantation Life. Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zones. with Tania Li (2021); “Fishers’ responses to the Danish seiner ban and the history of fisheries governance on the Java north coast” with Katharina Schneider (2021); “The Development and Demise of Child Labour in a Javanese Tea Plantation, 1900–2010” with Gerben Nooteboom (2018). He got his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2001.