Didi Kasim

Didi Kaspi Kasim (born 3 March 1977) is an Indonesian journalist and editor at National Geographic Indonesia.

Early life
Didi Kaspi Kasim was born on 3 March 1977 in Medan, North Sumatra. He was raised in Jakarta and graduated from Billy Blue College of Design in Australia. He has an outdoor hobby such as biking, hiking, and climbing mountains, and has a dream to work at National Geographic.

Personal life
Kasim's nephew, Muhammad Athallah Arsyaf, is a physician graduate from University of Indonesia, who won a best poster at The International Undergraduate & Foundation Surgery Conference 2023 (INUGSC) in London.

Career
Kasim started his career by establishing an advertising company in Jakarta with his friends, and attempting to convince clients that they would receive more personal service than the larger advertising companies. Later, he found out that advertising is highly competitive jobs, and has no desire to continue and then closed the venture which only lasted a year. He worked as an editor for Hai magazine from 2000 until 2017. Later, he and his friend founded Soccer magazine. Kasim started to work as an editor for Kompas daily and began pressing Kompas to consider creating a National Geographic branch in Indonesia. He was an intern at The Jakarta Post.

National Geographic Indonesia
In 2005, when National Geographic was established in Indonesia, Kasim worked there as an art director. He finds hard time to produce a National Geographic story, due to regulation where he was not allowed to produce a content in Indonesian language, and only taken a content from United States and translated it to Bahasa.

In 2007, Kasim became the managing editor, and started to published the first magazine with original content from National Geographic Indonesia. The first magazine content was about a small story of underwater biology featuring local scientist, and later was capable of creating a story about Borobudur Temple which took eight months for production. At that time, the content of magazine has only 20 percent of original content, and 80 percent of the content was being translated from United States.

In 2009, Kasim was appointed as the editor-in-chief, and later overseeing and contributing to the production of the story. As of 2019, he worked as a journalist and considering to be a photographer or an author for National Geographic.