Bina Bektiati

Bina Bektiati is an Indonesian journalist and author. A writer for Tempo magazine, she helped found the Alliance of Independent Journalists after Tempo was banned in 1994. Briefly exiled from Indonesia, she won the Courage in Journalism Award in 1997. After returning to Indonesia, she is today an editor at Tempo, and a regular contributor to the Jakarta Post.

Life Bina Bektiati was born and raised in East Java Province. She graduated from the Social and Political Science Department of Airlangga University. She then joined Detektif Dan Romantika (D&R), a weekly news magazine, edited by a former Tempo writer. She continued writing on politics, often under a pseudonym, until Suharto's fall in 1998.

Bekiati is a member of the Specialty Coffee Association of Indonesia (SCAI).

Books Memoar orang-orang Singkawang [People from Singkawang: a memoir]. Jakarta: Galeri Foto Jurnalistik Antara, 2011. (ed. with Nugroho Dewanto) Surat dari Rantau [Letters from Foreign Lands]. Kreasi Mitramedia Utama, 2015. (ed.) Kita bisa berdaya : pemberdayaan tenaga kerja migran sebagai duta bangsa dengan misi memperkenalkan kebaikan dan kelebihan Indonesia dimana-mana [We can be empowered: empowering migrant workers as ambassadors of the nation with a mission to introduce the goodness and advantages of Indonesia everywhere] by Indah Morgan. Jakarta: PT. Merah Putih Sejahtera, 2016.