User:Revo Arka Giri Soekatno

Name: Mr. Revo Arka Giri Soekatno ("Revi") Place of birth and date: Ambon, Indonesia, August 2nd, 1975

Background
Revi Soekatno was born in Ambon, Indonesia on August 2nd, 1975. He is of Javanese heritage as both his parents were from Surakarta, Central Java. After a few years, he moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1978. In 1981 he moved back to Indonesia. He spends his Indonesian years in Denpasar (Bali), Jakarta, and Semarang. In 1986 he moved to the Netherlands.

Revi Soekatno holds a Master degree in Indonesian literature and a PhD degree in Old Javanese literature. He got his Master degree in Indonesian literature in 1999 from the University of Leiden. His thesis is about Malay language letters in Javanese scripts.

In 2009 he got his PhD degree in Old Javanese literature from the same university. His dissertation is a text edition of a Middle Javanese text; Kidung Tantri Kediri.

Participation in Encyclopedia-like Projects
Revi Soekatno is a longtime user in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. He has been an admin on the Indonesian and Javanese language Wikipedia which he founded.