Potensi Biawak bagi Riset dan Pengembangannya di Indonesia

Evy Ayu Arida

doi:10.55981/brin.2377

Potensi Biawak bagi Riset dan Pengembangannya di Indonesia

Authors

Evy Ayu Arida

Pusat Riset Zoologi Terapan BRIN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55981/brin.2377

Keywords:

Zoologi, Reptil, Evolusi, Sejarah alam, Indonesia timur

Synopsis

Pada orasi ini, akan disampaikan state-of-the-art tentang perkembangan, peluang dan tantangan riset biologi konservasi spesies biawak asal Indonesia. Penemuan-penemuan tentang karakter spesies biawak tersebut dapat memberikan pemahaman yang lebih mendalam mengenai potensinya sebagai hewan model kajian evolusi fauna maupun komoditas satwa liar bernilai tambah asal Indonesia.

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Author Biography

Evy Ayu Arida, Pusat Riset Zoologi Terapan BRIN

Berdasarkan Keputusan Presiden Republik Indonesia Nomor 21/M Tahun 2023 tanggal 15 Mei 2023 yang bersangkutan diangkat sebagai Peneliti Ahli Utama terhitung mulai 24 Mei 2023.

Berdasarkan Keputusan Kepala Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional Nomor 221/I/HK/2025 tanggal 11 November 2025 yang bersangkutan melakukan orasi pengukuhan Profesor Riset.

Menamatkan Sekolah Dasar Negeri 2 IKIP Yogyakarta, tahun 1987, Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri 8 Yogyakarta, tahun 1990, dan Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 1 Yogyakarta, tahun 1993, Memperoleh gelar Sarjana Sains dari Universitas Gadjah Mada tahun 1998, gelar Master of Science dari The Flinders University of South Australia tahun 2005, dan gelar Doktor bidang zoologi dari Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn tahun 2011.

Mengikuti beberapa pelatihan yang terkait dengan bidang kompetensinya, antara lain: Terrapin Conservation of the Summer Internship at the Wetlands Institute di New Jersey, Amerika Serikat (tahun 2001), Applied Phylogenetics Workshop di Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, California, Amerika Serikat (tahun 2009), Pendidikan dan Pelatihan Jabatan Fungsional Tingkat I di Cibinong (tahun 2012), Pendidikan dan Pelatihan Jabatan Fungsional Tingkat Lanjutan di Cibinong (tahun 2014), dan Workshop Diplomasi Sains di Jakarta (tahun 2015).

Pernah menduduki jabatan administratif non-struktural sebagai Pelaksana Tugas Kepala Pusat Riset Ekologi dan Etnobiologi (tahun 2022), serta Kepala Pusat Riset Zoologi Terapan (tahun 2022 – 2024).

Jabatan fungsional peneliti diawali sebagai Peneliti Ahli Muda golongan IIId tahun 2013, Peneliti Ahli Madya, golongan IVa tahun 2017, dan memperoleh jabatan Peneliti Ahli Utama, golongan IVb bidang zoologi tahun 2023.

Menghasilkan tujuh puluh lima (75) karya tulis ilmiah (KTI), baik yang ditulis sendiri maupun bersama penulis lain dalam bentuk buku, jurnal, dan prosiding. Sebanyak 70 (tujuh puluh) KTI ditulis dalam bahasa Inggris, dan lima (5) dalam bahasa Indonesia.

Ikut serta dalam pembinaan kader ilmiah, yaitu sebagai pembimbing skripsi (S-1) pada Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Universitas Tanjungpura, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel; pembimbing tesis (S-2) dan penguji tesis (S-2) pada IPB University, pembimbing tesis (S-2) pada Universitas Lambung Mangkurat; pembimbing disertasi (S-3) pada IPB University, Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Sam Ratulangi, dan Universitas Gadjah Mada; serta penguji disertasi (S-3) pada IPB University dan Universitas Jenderal Soedirman.

Aktif dalam organisasi profesi ilmiah, yaitu sebagai anggota Perhimpunan Biologi Indonesia (2011 – sekarang), anggota Masyarakat Zoologi Indonesia (2011 – sekarang), anggota IUCN Monitor Lizard Specialist Group (2013 – 2017), sekretaris Penggalang Herpetologi Indonesia (2018 – 2021), Perhimpunan Periset Indonesia (2021 – sekarang), IUCN Snake Species Specialist Group (2022 – sekarang), dan IUCN Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group (2024 – sekarang).

Menerima tanda penghargaan sebagai Peserta Terbaik Pendidikan dan Pelatihan Jabatan Fungsional Tingkat Lanjutan (tahun 2014), DAAD – Biodiversity and Health Research Fellowship for Senior Researcher (tahun 2017), DAAD – Reinvitation Programme (tahun 2018), dan Satyalancana Karya Satya 10 Tahun (tahun 2010), 20 Tahun (tahun 2020) dari Presiden RI.

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