Prof. Hermin Indah Wahyuni is a senior lecturer at Department of Communication, Faculty of Social and Political Science of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. She has been serving as the director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS),  Universitas Gadjah Mada since 2015. Hermin has authored some books in Communication. Among her books are Television and  State Intervention(2000),  the Indonesian Broadcasting System (2008),  and The Policy of New Media  in Indonesia (2013). Hermin  has research interest and has many journal publications in Political Communication, Media Regulation, Media Governance, Journalism and other topics related to media and communication. One of the research that she involved in is “Communication and Politics of Disaster in Indonesia: Analysis of the Multi-layered Responses to Maritime Disasters in Semarang and Aceh “ (2018).