Christian Razukas

I make intriguing magazines, newspapers and stories. For the last 20 years, I've been a managing editor, desk editor, reporter, and ghostwriter. I've haunted streets, ministries, dangdut bars, penthouses, royal palaces, art auctions, floods, slums and riots in Southeast Asia for almost as long.

And in more detail...

Christian Razukas spent six-and-a-half years at The Jakarta Post, where he was the editor for its print lifestyles publication, JPlus. He was also editor of Speak!, the Post's now-defunct monthly teen magazine, and for several years was a deputy editor on the Features Desk.

He has been the editorial consultant of J+ by The Jakarta Post, a revamped magazine, and the deputy chief editor of Indonesia Design magazine.

Writing about luxury, lifestyles, film, food, fashion, television, architecture, design, books and travel; Christian has written on the culinary scene in Jakarta for FoodieS magazine and lectured on journalism at Bina Nusantara University in Jakarta and on film criticism and Southeast Asian cinema at the University of Hawaii.

He has served on film festival and competition juries in the US and Indonesia and portrayed an Arab human trafficker in the Indonesian feature film Madame X.

Previously, Christian was the film programmer for the Hawaii International Film Festival. He worked on eleven film festivals and was a film archivist in San Francisco. He served two tours in the foreign service personnel in Washington, D.C. for the Peace Corps and rescued three men and a dog at sea on a U.S. Navy destroyer in the North Atlantic.

Christian has a MA from the University of Hawaii in Asian Studies and was a student in new media at the National University of Singapore.

At the University of Hawaii, Christian built the website for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, produced a 26-episode podcast series, and helped program its Southeast Asian Film Series. He spent six months in Jogjakarta studying Indonesian.

He earned a BA in History from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was born and raised in what used to be New York City.

A journalist member of the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club, Christian was previously Southeast Asian correspondent for Cinepod and has been quoted or referenced in Filmmaker Magazine, the Philippine Star, the Philippine Inquirer, the Honolulu Weekly, Variety, Cinemags, The Hollywood Reporter, indieWire and Giant Robot.