Justin Wejak is a lecturer in Indonesian Studies at the Asia Institute, and a research associate at the Indigenous Knowledge Institute, the University of Melbourne, Australia. He studied philosophy in Indonesia, and theology and anthropology in Australia. For his PhD at the University of Melbourne he undertook an analysis of cultures of fear concerning the political events of 1965-66 amongst Eastern Indonesian Catholics. Currently he is researching on Indigenous knowledge of traditional food and medicinal plants in Lembata, Eastern Indonesia.