Arief is a full time digital anthropologist, focusing on studies of gender, video games, and digital society, as well as a part time interpreter for both national and international NGOs. Arief has been providing interpretation services for feminist and human rights NGOs since 2015, when he first started working as a consultant for Indonesian Planned Parenthood Association (IPPA). Arief holds an MSc in Global Ethnography from Leiden University; yet for him, his experiences working with NGOs and providing interpretations weight more than the degree that he got in 2020. Arief loves bringing snacks to meeting spaces, and he is also a V-Tuber.