Yanu Widiyono is in the master’s program in international studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a staff of the Indonesian National Narcotics Board (BNN) in Riau Province and hopes to conduct research on transnational drug crimes countermeasures for which will need to involve international cooperation. He holds a BA in English literature from Gadjah Mada University in Yogya, earned in 2007.