Pitan Daslani is a senior journalist who has worked for several international mass media organizations including The Jakarta Post, Radio Netherlands, Radio Deutsche Welle Germany, and the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper's Jakarta Bureau, and has been writing and reporting on international diplomatic issues for more than 30 years. He also has good relationship with a number of analysts and government figures in different countries, so he can get first-hand information for the topics that he writes for an international audience.