The person behind the lens
About
I'm Canggih — an ocean engineer turned maritime analyst, building Mercusuar as an outsider looking in on the waters the region shares.
I came to this from the engineering side of the sea, not the policy side. That vantage — structures, data, what actually holds in the water — is the one I keep.
Trajectory
Ocean Engineering, ITB (2016–2021) — where the sea became a system to be read rather than a setting to be described.
Project management + L&D, Telkom Corporate University (2022–2026) — where I learned the discipline of building programs that scale, and the humility to let evidence beat argument.
PMP (2025) — the credential that says I can run the work; not the reason I do it.
Maritime writing (2026 onward) — learning to read traffic and method, and to distrust any claim that could not be reproduced.
Master’s application (2027–2028 cycle) — Tsinghua, NUS, NTU shortlisted. Sharpening the lens and the argument that an open record outlives any one byline.
An outsider looking in has one advantage: no stake in the story staying the way it has always been told.
What I take seriously
The waters the region shares are an ecological, navigational, and infrastructural commons. The undersea is the quietest part of it and the least watched. I write to keep the account, and to build something that can keep it after me.
- Maritime intelligence
- ASEAN
- AIS & vessel tracking
- Undersea infrastructure
- Writing
Read the record, or help keep it.
The clearest picture of the work is the writing and the datasets — landing from July 2026. If you want to help keep the record, the door is here.