Mr. Anharudin is an anthropologist, working as a senior researcher at the Center for Transmigration Research and Development, The Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, Republic of Indonesia. As an official researcher in government research agency, he actively conduct many anthropological researches and socio-cultural studies especially on the impact of transmigration and land development towards the indigenous communities and their cultural lives.

During the transition era, particularly since the collapes of the authoritarian regime of New Order, he had done many researches on multi ethnic relationships and the causes of ethnical and religious conflicts, research on violence and discrimination against women, and research on various human rights violation in some areas of Indonesia.

His post graduate thesis of anthropology (1986) is about the ownership disparity of agricultural means of production, basically land, that promoted shared poverty in peasant life of rural Java; and also about the agricultural modernization that causes land degradation as well as worse disparities of land ownership.

In addition to his position as government researcher, he is also active in an NGO concerning to political and human right education. At the moment, he is a Deputy Director of Lembaga Penguatan Opini Publik (LPOP) based at Cibubur, Bogor West Java. In this organization he exerted his attention to political and human rights education and studies.