As a Humphrey Fellow, Dody Darsono studies urban and regional planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He plans to use his Humphrey grant to learn more about linkages between environmental policy and climate change and to explore solutions to pressing issues in Indonesia’s water and sanitation sector.  Knowledge in these fields is needed to address Indonesia’s inadequate sanitation infrastructure and its lack of management and finance for operations and maintenance. Upon completing the program, he hopes to develop a new sanitation program with an increased impact on urban communities.

Dodi earned a D3 certificate from Politeknik Negeri Bandung, a bachelor’s from Universitas Indonesia, and a master’s from Universitas Indonesia, all in mechanical engineering; he also took a second master’s in public policy from the Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of Public Policy and Management.

He supervises project implementation at the Ministry of Public Works Directorate of Sanitation, monitoring city-level wastewater treatment plant projects all over Indonesia.