Megawati is a Lloyd's List senior reporter based in Singapore.

Megawati has more than 12 years of experience in business and financial journalism. Prior to joining Lloyd's List, she was a senior reporter at Debtwire, covering distressed debt, restructuring, and special situations in Indonesia and Singapore. Before that, she was a senior correspondent with Metal Bulletin, reporting on Southeast Asia's steel and base metals news and prices.

As a freelance contributor for Asia Times Online, she has reported on Singapore's watershed general election 2011, the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, and the discrimation faced by the LGBT community in Indonesia, among others.

Megawati has a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. She speaks English, Bahasa Indonesia, Malay, and some Mandarin, and is learning Oriya.