Ayu Azhariyah is a lecturer in the Department of Japanese Literature at Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia, with academic interests in Japanese studies, anthropology of education, and Indonesia–Japan relations. She holds multiple academic degrees from Universitas Hasanuddin and pursued graduate studies at Nagoya University, where she is also undertaking her doctoral research. Her work explores history of Japanese language education, education in Indonesia, Japanology, and sociolinguistic phenomena.