Odri Prince Agustinus D. Sembiring, M.A.

Odri Prince Agustinus D. Sembiring designs and builds ASPIRASI’s technology ecosystem, from the field data-collection app and the electoral analysis dashboard to the institute’s website. He combines expertise in electoral politics, public opinion and discourse analysis with computational methods such as natural language processing and structural topic modelling, and holds the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification.

He holds an M.A. in Politics and Government from Universitas Gadjah Mada, specialising in Natural Resource Politics, including an exchange at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and a dual degree in Psychology from Universitas Indonesia and the University of Queensland.

He is co-founder and Lead Researcher of Kalcer Institute in Yogyakarta and a co-founder of the EPPOS (Electoral and Public Opinion) study group in UGM’s Department of Politics and Government. His work covers single-candidate local elections, social media activism and the politics of extractivism, and has been presented at international forums including the ASEAN International Conference on Energy and Environment and the University of Melbourne. He also writes opinion columns for Kompas.