Dio Ashar Wicaksana is a PhD scholar at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. He earned a bachelor's degree in law from Universitas Indonesia and a master degree in Socio-Legal studies from Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. He has been actively engaged in policy-making and research on judicial reform and access to justice concerns while working with the Indonesian NGO, Indonesia Judicial Research Society (IJRS). He was the Executive Director at IJRS from 2019 to 2023. He is a lecturer in Constitutional Law and Socio-Legal Studies at Adhyaksa Law School. His PhD research will examine the Indonesian legal aid program and its effectiveness in addressing the justice needs of the Indonesian people.