Shinta Farida graduated from the History Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia (August 2020) with a minor in Southeast Asian history. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (Kemenlu RI) as a student researcher at the Department of Policy Analysis and Development for Asia-Pasific and Africa (2019). She had also been a participatory supervisor in the Indonesian Presidential General Election in 2019 and Indonesian Regional General Election in 2020. She is capable of reading Indonesian, Dutch and Sundanese sources.