Savitri is a scholar-activist working on community empowerment in natural resource management since 1997, concentrating on agrarian, gender and land issues studies since 2003. For the last four years, she has been teaching agrarian policy in Regional Planning Graduate Program of Bogor University of Agriculture (IPB), also Department of Anthropology of Gadjah Mada University. Laksmi is also an associate scholar of National Land Institute (STPN). Laksmi can be reached at savitri_la@yahoo.com