After completing his teaching contract at ITB, Harits Rasyid Paramasatya — fondly called Ais — continued his education in the Department of Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Sydney. He immediately joined Koalisi Seni as a policy researcher upon returning to his homeland in August 2020. Apart from teaching, Ais has also worked as a researcher for the Gedung Sate Museum and Addi Road Community Centre. Because he wanted to record unrecorded history, Ais founded the Queer Indonesia Archive (QIA) with his partner.