Southeast Asian & ASEAN Studies

Riska Widiyanita Batubara (Riska) was born and raised in Surabaya, Indonesia. She is a junior lecturer at Universitas Muhammadiyah Gresik, Indonesia, and started her lecturer position in 2018. She received a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Universitas Airlangga Surabaya (Indonesia) in 2011 and a master’s degree in English Language and Literature Education, majoring in English Literature, from the same university in 2015. She is one of the grantees of the 2022-2023 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program. As an FLTA, she teaches Bahasa Indonesia for Elementary and Intermediate levels at Indiana University, Bloomington. She loves sharing her language and culture with others and wishes to get more experience living in Bloomington.