Dicky Caesario Wibowo Hidayat is a PhD candidate at the ANU School of Culture, History & Language at The Australian National University. His work mostly deals with archaeology, human remains, and public engagement through exhibition. Currently shifting from neolithic bioarchaeology to contemporary case under long-term research of Genocide 1965-66 by Prof. Robert Cribb (emeritus) from Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs.

With his multidisciplinary backgrounds from his bachelor in Archaeology also his master’s in forensic science, His research wants to investigate the enduring legacies of mass violence through the lens of forensic archaeology & anthropology. His research approach grounded in non-invasive archaeological techniques, taphonomic inference, and archival research for trauma proxies. Through these methods, he aims to trace the haunting materialities of atrocity that remain invisible in landscapes, documents, and silence. His research wants to offer a new framework for investigating mass violence in the state where exhumation still impossible to conduct. Hoping the project will contribute to broader discourses in the complex relationship between archaeology, political acts, ethics and memory activism in heritage formation.