Dewi Kartika is an agrarian activist who has been actively involved in various educational campaigns and people-based organizations. She joined the Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria (KPA) in 2007, a populist organization in Indonesia that consistently strives for agrarian reform, consisting of 145 civil peasants organizations and NGOs. She received a scholarship to study agrarian transition at the Institute of Social Study (ISS), The Hague, Netherlands (2011).
Dewi will serve as one of the Global Council representatives from Asia.