Author: KBA

Kuntoro Boga Andri is the Head of the Plantation Instrument Standardization Center at the Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia, since July 2024. Prior to this, he served as the Director of the Public Relations and Information Bureau at the Ministry of Agriculture since March 2018. He was a Senior Researcher (Peneliti Utama) at the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development. Previously, he was the Head of the Indonesian Sweetener and Fiber Crops Research Institute (ISFCRI), after serving as the Head of BPTP Riau (The Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology, Riau) since 2016. He was formerly the Head of LPTP West Sulawesi and the Program and Evaluation Coordinator of BPTP East Java from 2014 to 2015. Throughout his career, he has been a leader and consultant for many national and international research and development projects. Kuntoro was born in Banjarmasin, a tranquil city in Kalimantan, and moved to Purwokerto in Central Java when he was nine. He received his B.Sc. in Socio-Economics of Agriculture from Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia, in 1998. He obtained his M.Agr. in Agricultural Economics and Marketing from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Saga University, Japan, in 2004, and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and Policy Science from The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, Japan, in 2007. In 2016, Kuntoro Boga Andri was awarded the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) to visit the United States by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Previously, in 2000, he was selected as the Yoshinogari Goodwill Ambassador of Saga Prefecture for collaboration in science and cultural exchange by the Saga Prefecture Government, Japan.