Mercusuar · A lens on ASEAN's shared waters

I'm Canggih — an ocean engineer learning to read ASEAN's contested waters.

Mercusuar is where I'll keep the record: patient, open, built to outlast news cycles. First essays landing July 2026.

  • Ocean Engineer (ITB)
  • PMP
  • Writing at Mercusuar

The mission, in brief

The sea the region shares is also the risk it shares — oil on the water, a vessel gone dark, a cable cut in the deep. Mercusuar is the lens that reads it, and the open record that outlives any one byline.

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Featured writing

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Evidence the lens is real

Work

All work

The dataset ledger opens in August.

First open dataset: ASEAN Maritime Information Architecture — an interactive map of every regional maritime domain awareness node (IFC Singapore, IMIC Indonesia, ReCAAP, SeaVision, proposed Filipina Maritime Centre) with jurisdictional overlays.

Stack: Python, GeoPandas, Folium, DuckDB. Deployed to GitHub Pages.

  • The Sea and CivilizationLincoln Paine
  • MonsoonRobert D. Kaplan
  • The MuqaddimahIbn Khaldun
  • The Geography of the PeaceN. J. Spykman

For collaborators, fellows & institutional partners

Help me keep the record.

If you work on the waters the region shares — ecology, navigation, undersea infrastructure — there's a door here for you.

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