More than four decades have passed since law-anthropologist Laura Nader (1972) first called for anthropologists to ‘study up’, which calls into question the often-taken for granted power relation between anthropologists and the people they research about (or rather, the people they do research with). Since then, Nader’s question has been taken up, and even challenged by anthropologists working with those who hold ‘more power’. Nader, herself, has further clarified her position that her call to ‘study up’ did not mean for anthropologist to stop ‘study down’, but to study ‘up, down, and sideways simultaneously’ (2008). This paper takes up such challenges by reflecting on my experience, as a struggling scholar with anthropology as one of her education background who is trying for ways and places to fit in in her work in public health field in the last 5 years or so. In this paper, I asked what it means to ‘study up, down and sideways simultaneously’ for Indonesian anthropology today, particularly those who is working in interdisciplinary field.