Kasiyan

Kasiyan is a prominent professor at the Faculty of Language, Arts, and Culture at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. He is known for his critical views on the commodification of knowledge in academia and the challenges faced by researchers in accessing and disseminating information in a system dominated by corporate publishers. He emphasizes the irony of the current academic publishing landscape, where knowledge, which should be a shared public good, is often locked behind paywalls, creating barriers for scholars and the public alike.