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.
Read the missionFeatured writing
All essaysEvidence the lens is real
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.
Reading
The shelf- The Sea and Civilization
- Monsoon
- The Muqaddimah
- The Geography of the Peace
Now
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.
CollaborateOr just read
New essays, a few times a season. No noise.