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AI Engineer / Developer / Cultural Technologist

I’m Yose — a developer based in Papua, Indonesia. I build systems that bridge artificial intelligence, local culture, and real-world communities. My focus is on AI for cultural preservation: creating open data ecosystems, tokenizers, and multimodal models for underrepresented languages.

Founder of Abstraksi, Papua’s first AI-centered tech company. We’re currently working on Aksara, an AI agent ecosystem for institutions and local enterprises, and on NLP pipelines for the seven Papuan ethnic regions.

I see technology as a form of translation — between data and humanity, language and meaning, memory and machine.

Hobbies

  • Designing interfaces that blend science, culture, and storytelling.
  • Experimenting with photogrammetry and digital heritage reconstruction.
  • Field recording — from rainforest soundscapes to city ambience.
  • Occasionally teaching math and coding to kids in Papua.

Tools

Current support tools as follow:

Design
Photoshop
Picture Editing
Illustrator
Vector Drawing
After Effects
Motion Graphics
Premiere Pro
Video Editing
Productivity
Chrome
Browser
Firefox
Browser
Notion
Note Taking
Typora
Markdown Editor
Development
VS Code
IDE
Neovim
IDE
Sublime Text
IDE
Environment
Arch Linux
Linux Distribution
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Linux Distribution
MacOS Tahoe
MacBook Air
Windows 11
Framework Laptop 16

Social Networks

I share my work, experiments, and small cultural AI field notes across GitHub, Threads, and Telegram. You’ll find project updates, discussions on ethical AI, and glimpses of life between code and community.

GitHub
28 followers
Threads
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Telegram
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Steam
38 games
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Field Notes

Why I Work on AI for Papua

Papua holds more than 250 living languages — each with its own worldview. Many are at risk of fading, and with them, entire epistemologies. My goal isn’t just to “save data,” but to create digital spaces where these languages can live, evolve, and be heard again.

What Inspires Me

The meeting point of computation and culture. I’m fascinated by how neural networks mimic the structure of oral storytelling — pattern, rhythm, memory.

On Building Alone (and with AI)

For now, it’s mostly just me and my AI tools working together to prototype, test, and iterate. But this solitude has its rhythm. It allows for deep thinking, steady building, and long nights of coffee-fueled debugging.

About Blog

This site serves as my digital notebook — where code, anthropology, and philosophy meet.

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