Lakso Anindito joined the Basel Institute on Governance in June 2022 as Team Leader, Indonesia. He leads the Institute’s technical engagement in the country, currently under the UK DEFRA IWT CF funded Follow-the-Money project and previously through the USAID INTEGRITAS programme.

Under the Follow-the-Money project, Lakso provides capacity building and technical advice to various Indonesian government partners. His focus is on financial investigations of environmental cases and developing institutional guidelines for anti-money laundering investigations.

Before joining the Basel Institute, Lakso spent 11 years as an investigator and legal specialist at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Presidential office (UKP4 and REDD+ Agency). At the KPK, he focused on corporate criminal liability and risk reduction in natural resource management. He investigated several high-profile cases, including the first case of corporate criminal liability for money laundering at KPK. He also trained internal auditors from SOEs and government investigators at the Anti-Corruption Learning Center.

At the REDD+ Agency, Lakso worked on law enforcement and dispute resolution, piloting a legal compliance audit to prevent forest and land fires. He also supervised the implementation of the “multidoor” enforcement approach for forestry and priority natural resource-related cases.

Lakso is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Indonesia. He holds a Master of Law in European and International Trade Law from Lund University, Sweden, as a recipient of a Swedish Institute Scholarship for Global Professionals, and a Bachelor's in Law from the Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.