Kiki Siregar is a Senior Correspondent for CNA’s Indonesia digital bureau. She covers politics, foreign policy, the environment and the economy.

Her career highlights with CNA include interviews with Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Vice President Ma’ruf Amin, as well as Timor-Leste’s President and Nobel laureate José Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao among many others.

Prior to joining CNA in 2019, Kiki was the Indonesia and Timor-Leste correspondent for Agence France-Presse. She covered the 2018 earthquake in Lombok, the Sunda Strait tsunami and the Asian Games.

She started her career as a broadcast journalist with Trans TV in 2005. Kiki covered the 2008 US election and interviewed then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009.

She entered digital journalism in 2011 when she managed MSN Indonesia and subsequently became the web editor of Strategic Review, a journal focusing on world affairs and policies.

Kiki then moved to BBC Indonesia and produced a variety of stories including the 2014 AirAsia air crash and 2016 Jakarta terror attack.

Kiki holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Indonesia. She also holds another Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Queensland in Australia.

Kiki is based in Jakarta. Reach out to her via LinkedIn or at rizki.siregar [at] mediacorp.com.sg.