CO-FOUNDER, CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Ruwi has 30+ years of experience working with Indigenous Peoples, forest management, and social enterprise in Indonesia. Throughout his career, he has founded and led several organizations working in Indonesia and the broader Southeast Asia region such as Telapak, Samdhana Institute, and Forest Watch Indonesia. Ruwi's work has been instrumental in shifting extractive industries to regenerative alternatives, including building a movement to transition from illegal to community logging and away from destructive fishing practices to promoting community enterprises and social entrepreneurship. Ruwi is a committed activist, supporting the struggle of indigenous people, farmers, and fishermen towards ecological, social, and economic integrity.

Ruwi is the recipient of 2012 Ramon Magsaysay Award for emerging leader honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2010 and Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2008. Ruwi hopes to be a fiction writer someday.

LEAD STRATEGIST

Abdon Nababan is acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in Indonesia’s Indigenous Peoples’ movement. In 1999, after the fall of the Suharto regime, Nababan was one of the organizers of a congress that launched AMAN (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara, or “Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago”), a membership-based organization that has grown to over 115 local chapters and 21 regional chapters throughout the country’s thirty-four provinces. Collectively, AMAN represents over 17 million members. Under NABABAN’s leadership, AMAN won a 2012 landmark constitutional court ruling which returned some 57 million hectares of government-controlled forest land to indigenous communities. Nababan is the 2017 recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

CHIEF MENOKEN OFFICER

Yuniken Mayangsari Restu Widiastuti, known as Niken, serves as Chief Menoken Officer of Mitra BUMMA, leading its work with Menoken, women, and youth. A graduate of Bogor Agricultural University with a degree in Food Technology, she has more than a decade of experience working at the intersection of Indigenous Peoples, community-based livelihoods, conservation, cooperatives, and cultural enterprise. She has served as Manager of the Cooperative Indigenous Peoples Alliance of Archipelago (KPAM), Director of Borneo Chic and PT Sekar Kawung, and Director of PT Poros Nusantara–West Java, working on non-timber forest products, handwoven textiles, community-based agricultural products, livelihoods, and conservation. From 2020 to 2025, she managed projects within the Samdhana Institute’s Lifespace Program, focusing on strategy, baseline development, and action in Tanah Papua, and from 2023 to 2025 served as Lifespace Program Manager, overseeing resources, budgets, implementation, and team coordination. Niken has also been instrumental in the initiation in 2020 and growth of Menoken movement eversince, and has supported cross-regional learning, cultural preservation, and community capacity-building, across Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities across Indonesia. She is also a longstanding advocate for disability inclusion and rights and has led a parents’ community supporting deaf and mute people since 2009. At Mitra BUMMA, she leads the community-organizing pillar—the first phase of the Menoken–Membumi–Membumma framework—focused on leadership development, women and youth engagement, capacity building, cultural process, and connecting communities.

CHIEF OPERATION OFFICER

Piter Roki Aloisius, known as Roki, serves as Chief Operating Officer of Mitra BUMMA and has more than 25 years of experience in sustainable forest management, Indigenous community empowerment, conservation enterprises, and ecotourism in Tanah Papua. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Forestry Management and a Master’s degree in Conservation Biology from Cenderawasih University. Roki spent more than two decades with WWF Indonesia’s Papua Programme, progressing from Forest Officer to Sustainable Forest Management Coordinator, New Guinea Forest Leader, and Northern Forest Manager. Across these roles, he led community-based forest management initiatives involving Indigenous cooperatives across multiple districts, supported sustainable cocoa value chains and community-based birdwatching ecotourism enterprises, and managed multi-year programme portfolios of up to USD 2.5 million. He has also worked in the private forestry sector, including as Camp Manager at PT Hanurata Jayapura and Deputy Operations Manager at PT Bangun Kayu Irian. Roki has been closely associated with the Menoken movement and has supported activities ranging from forest restoration and ecotourism to community capacity-building, including with the Kokoda and Kanum tribes. He also directly supported the formation of BUMMA Namblong, Mitra BUMMA’s pilot Indigenous Peoples’ Corporation. At Mitra BUMMA, he brings his extensive field experience in Papua to oversee operations and embedded facilitation with partner Indigenous communities and territories.

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Hendaru Djumantoro serves as Chief Financial Officer of Mitra BUMMA, bringing more than three decades of experience in financial management, organizational systems, and enterprise development across Indonesia’s forestry, fisheries, agriculture, conservation, and Indigenous-rights sectors. He began his career at Bank Rakyat Indonesia before joining Telapak in 1999 as Finance Director, where he developed financial systems and supported the organization’s growing network of community partners. He subsequently served as Corporate Secretary and Finance Director and later Deputy Director for Finance and Investment at PT Poros Nusantara Utama, overseeing financial systems for business units and cooperatives and directly supporting many farmer associations, developing organic products and cooperative systems, as well as community-based sustainable timber enterprises. He also helped establish the financial system for PT Bahtera LEStari’s community-based, cyanide-free ornamental fishery and coral-reef enterprise in Bali. Hendaru later served as Finance Manager at the Samdhana Institute and in finance and administration roles with the Coral Triangle Center, Yayasan Belantara, Huma, and Bentang Alam Indonesia, managing organizational finances, donor reporting, budgeting, administration, and financial systems. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economy and Development Studies from Universitas Terbuka. 

CORPORATE SECRETARY

Christian “Bob” Purba serves as Corporate Secretary of Mitra BUMMA. A member of Kaoem Telapak from Bogor, West Java, Bob has been active in Indonesia’s social and environmental movements for more than 23 years, with a particular focus on forest governance, independent forest monitoring, and environmental advocacy. He has held several leadership positions, including Chair of the Governing Board and Executive Director of Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI), Vice President of TELAPAK, and National Coordinator of the Independent Forest Monitoring Network (JPIK). He is currently involved with the Independent Forest Monitoring Fund (IFM Fund), supporting independent forest monitoring through investigation, network consolidation, and capacity building, while advocating for sustainable financing, stronger integration of independent monitoring into Indonesia’s Timber Legality Assurance System (SVLK), and more concrete government action to prevent deforestation. At Mitra BUMMA, Bob brings more than two decades of experience in forest monitoring, regulatory engagement, environmental advocacy, and organizational leadership, contributing particularly to corporate governance, regulatory and institutional matters, and the strengthening of territorial, environmental, and governance principles underpinning Indigenous Peoples’ Corporations.

CORPORATE LEGAL

Nur Amalia serves as Corporate Legal at Mitra BUMMA, bringing more than three decades of experience in law, human rights, environmental justice, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights. She holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Indonesia and a Master in Development Management from the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines. Since 2011, she has been Managing Partner of Amalia and Associates Law Office, and from 2016 to 2021 served as Chairperson of PPMAN (Association of Indigenous Peoples Lawyers of the Archipelago), a wing organization of AMAN. Earlier, she worked as a Senior Legal Officer and Community Empowerment Working Group Coordinator at WWF Indonesia, held leadership positions at the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) and LBH-APIK, and served as Executive Director of RACA Institute and Kemala Foundation. She has also led and advised numerous environmental, social forestry, Indigenous rights, and governance initiatives involving organizations including the World Bank, UNDP, USAID, WRI, KEHATI, AMAN, and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. She serves on the Ministry’s Social Forestry Rapid Team and has held leadership and advisory roles with organizations including the National Forest Council and PEREMPUAN AMAN.  At Mitra BUMMA, she leads legal and regulatory work, including the incorporation and licensing of Indigenous Peoples’ Corporations and the review and structuring of partnership agreements and other legal arrangements.

OFFICE MANAGER

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Risky Anggraeni serves as Office Manager at Mitra BUMMA, bringing more than a decade of experience in finance, accounting, administration, and organizational coordination across both corporate and nonprofit settings. She holds a Diploma in Computer Applications for Business from STT Telkom Bandung and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Perbanas Institute in Jakarta.

Her career spans diverse financial and operational leadership roles, including serving as Head of Finance at Sawit Watch, Finance and Office Manager at PT Eco Nusantara Lestari, and Corporate Finance Manager at PT Santa Monica Indonesia (Daong Ecopark), where she oversaw financial reporting, budgeting, accounting systems, cash flow, taxation, audits, and administrative procedures.

She has also gained valuable experience in collection and agency relations at PT Waskita Karya Realty, as well as operational coordination at nDalem Kopi Resto Group. Additionally, she served as Executive Secretary to the Director of PT Citra Classic Furniture (New Armada Group), managing executive schedules, meetings, correspondence, documentation, events, and cross-departmental administration.

At Mitra BUMMA, Risky applies this comprehensive background in finance, administration, and operations to manage office systems, streamline organizational coordination, and provide critical support across the team.

ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

Ilham Akbar Ramadhan serves in Accounting & Finance at Mitra BUMMA. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sharia Accounting from Institut Tazkia (GPA 3.50) and brings solid professional experience in accounting, administration, and finance.

He began his career as an Accounting Staff member at the oil and gas company PT Dwipa Citraperkasa, where he handled transaction journaling, general ledger posting, monthly financial statements, and bank reconciliations. Since 2023, he has worked as Administration and Cashier Staff at Pusaka Benatala Rakyat, managing petty cash, routine office expenses, documentation, payroll transactions, and administrative support for audits and organizational activities.

During his university years, he was active in student leadership, serving as Head of Education for the Sharia Accounting Student Association, Treasurer of HIPMI Tazkia, and lead organizer of the 2020 national Tazkia Accounting Competition. He has also completed Brevet A and B tax training and professional courses in computerized accounting systems, including MYOB/ABSS.

At Mitra BUMMA, Ilham applies his technical accounting and administrative expertise to oversee day-to-day financial operations and support the development of sound financial systems as the organization grows.

LEAD, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, INVESTMENT & FUNDRAISING, DATA & RESEARCH

Mohammad Syirazi leads business development, investment and fundraising, and data and research at Mitra BUMMA. A geodesy and geomatics engineer by training, he holds a Master of Professional Studies in Natural Resources and the Environment from Cornell University and a Bachelor’s degree in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB).

His career has focused on building commercially viable nature-based enterprises and investment models, spanning agroforestry supply chains, sustainable investment, carbon markets, landscape restoration, and nature-based solutions.

His leadership experience includes serving as CEO and Co-founder of PT Taman Nusantara Lestari, where he built a forest bioeconomy platform around vanilla, coffee, and cacao supporting over 200 forest farmers; COO of PT Bumi Lestari Conservana, where he developed sustainable forest-product supply chains and helped secure Wildlife Friendly Certification; and CEO and Co-founder of PT Swadaya Reksabumi Investama, developing investment pipelines and theses for sustainable SMEs and institutional funders.

Additionally, he has worked as a consultant on sustainable investment, carbon, restoration finance, and landscape development—conducting feasibility studies for Restorative Economic Zones and carbon-business development, and contributing to published research on carbon storage and productivity in agroforestry systems.

At Mitra BUMMA, he applies this unique combination of enterprise-building, investment, carbon, spatial, and research expertise to developing Indigenous Peoples’ Corporations as viable economic institutions and connecting them to appropriate markets and sources of capital.

COMMUNICATION

Hendrian Fajar Jaya Tangkepayung serves in Communications at Mitra BUMMA, where he supports public communications, multimedia production, documentation, and outreach initiatives. His role focuses on developing visual and digital content that communicates the organization's mission, documents field activities, and strengthens engagement with communities, and partners.

Hendrian holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Cenderawasih University. His professional background spans communications, multimedia production, graphic design, video editing, public engagement, quality assurance, and public-sector administration. Throughout his career, he has contributed to news media production, live event visual operations, organizational communications, and government asset data management, building a diverse skill set that combines creativity, technical expertise, and strong organizational abilities.

Since 2018, Hendrian has remained actively involved in community development across Papua through volunteer work with organizations focused on education, youth empowerment, and social development. Working alongside local communities has strengthened his understanding of Papua's cultural diversity and reinforced his commitment to using communication as a bridge between organizations and the people they serve.

Drawing on his experience in visual storytelling, digital media, documentation, and cross-cultural communication, Hendrian is passionate about creating meaningful content that informs, inspires, and connects audiences. At Mitra BUMMA, he contributes to sharing stories from the field, highlighting community initiatives, and ensuring that the organization's work is communicated with clarity, authenticity, and impact.

NAMBLONG FIELD OPERATION

works with Mitra BUMMA on ecotourism and Indigenous lifeways, bringing together a background in biology, marine ecology, environmental activism, community research, and communication. Born in Fakfak and raised in Jayapura, she graduated cum laude in Biology from Cenderawasih University in 2022.

In 2021, Ranum was selected as one of 25 Young Papuan Scientists through the Ilmuwan Muda Papua research program, organized by the EcoNusa Foundation and the Regional Research and Development Agency of West Papua. Her research focused on coral ecosystems, reflecting her early interest in Papua’s biodiversity and the importance of understanding and protecting its natural environments. Her early experience also includes serving as City Coordinator of Earth Hour Jayapura, where she helped plan community programs and develop environmental campaigns and actions, as well as an MBKM internship with WWF-Indonesia researching local food diversification in Womom Village, Tambrauw, through interviews, observation, garden mapping, and classification of community gardens. She also served as a note-taker at the VI Congress of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (KMAN VI), documenting the proceedings of the three-day congress.

At Mitra BUMMA, Ranum has worked across vanilla and field operations and has increasingly focused on ecotourism, where her strengths in planning, community engagement, hosting, observation, research, and communication are particularly relevant. She contributes to developing ecotourism as an Indigenous-led economic activity rooted in place, community, and local ways of life, while helping connect visitors with the people, culture, biodiversity, and landscapes of Indigenous Territories. Beyond her professional work, Ranum is passionate about writing, photography, and music. She sees these creative practices as ways of observing, documenting, and making meaning from people, places, and everyday life.

NAMBLONG FIELD OPERATION

Angelius Mangatasi Nababan supports Mitra BUMMA’s forestry and field operations, bringing a background in forest management, environmental fieldwork, and community-based data collection. He graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Forestry at the University of North Sumatra, majoring in Forest Management, where he also worked as a laboratory assistant in Forest Management and Forestry Products and Processing. His professional experience includes field surveys for the Environmental Office of Medan City and the Asahan Barumun Watershed Management Agency, where he conducted environmental analysis, interviewed communities, collected and organized field data, and prepared analytical reports. He has also worked as an agribusiness surveyor with Pesona Tropis Indonesia, combining field observation and community interviews to understand local agribusiness conditions. At Mitra BUMMA, Angelius contributes to the accompaniment of Indigenous forest guardians and managers, particularly through field-based observation, data collection, environmental analysis, and support for forestry and carbon-related work. His combination of technical forestry knowledge, field experience, adaptability, teamwork, and problem-solving skills enables him to connect the practical realities of Indigenous Territories with the emerging forestry, conservation, and nature-based economic work of BUMMAs. 

NAMBLONG FIELD OPERATION

Rejeki Sihite supports Mitra BUMMA’s work with Indigenous farmers and the development of vanilla and other community-based economic activities, bringing a background in public administration, community engagement, research, and field facilitation. He is a student of Public Administration at the University of North Sumatra and has developed practical experience through research, civil society work, and community-based field activities. As part of a university research team, he contributed to a study on gender mainstreaming during the COVID-19 pandemic in North Sumatra, while his volunteer work with ELSAKA in Medan included documenting community discussions on the use of forest areas in Gunung Leuser National Park and supporting social activities in Tanjung Sulsuk. He has also worked as an enumerator with Pandawa Research and SMRC, measuring public perceptions of government performance during the 2024 legislative and presidential elections. His leadership experience includes serving as Chair of the Christian Student Movement of Indonesia (GMKI) commission at FISIP USU, where he organized leadership training and political education activities. At Mitra BUMMA, Rejeki brings these skills into direct engagement with farmers and BUMMA business operations, particularly vanilla, combining listening, field observation, community relations, data collection, and organizational coordination to help strengthen Indigenous economic activities from the ground up. 

DOMBERAI FIELD MANAGER

Bahrul Septian Dwi Cahyo is a forestry and community-enterprise practitioner who has been part of Mitra BUMMA since its early field operations, bringing a combination of forest conservation, ecotourism, community enterprise, and field-based project management experience. He holds a degree in Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism from IPB University and has developed more than five years of experience working with rural and Indigenous communities, with a particular focus on ecotourism, livelihoods, environmental management, community empowerment, and social and environmental safeguards.  At Mitra BUMMA, Bahrul progressed from field operations to team supervision and then to Field Operations Coordinator, working across Indigenous Territories in Southwest Papua. His responsibilities have included coordinating field operations and local teams, facilitating engagement between BUMMAs and tribal stakeholders, supporting the revitalization of Indigenous governance, developing operational health, safety and environmental protocols for tribal forest management, and helping Indigenous youth document and strengthen their cultural heritage. He has also worked to develop lifeways ecotourism as a way of connecting visitors with Indigenous culture, landscapes, and forest stewardship, while supporting community enterprises and local products. His field experience includes building local teams, facilitating social mapping and community-enterprise initiatives, and supporting public consultations related to Indigenous Peoples’ recognition.  At Mitra BUMMA, Bahrul brings a distinctly field-oriented perspective: translating the organization’s territorial governance and Indigenous economy approach into practical operations on the ground, while connecting forest management, community enterprise, cultural heritage, and livelihood development.

FORESTRY AND FOREST-GOVERNANCE SPECIALIST

Soelthon Gussetya Nanggara is a senior Indonesian forestry and forest-governance practitioner with more than two decades of experience in spatial research, forest policy, forest monitoring, and environmental governance. Born in Jember, East Java, he graduated in 2005 from the Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism at IPB University, with a final-year research project focused on environmental interpretation using geographic information systems in the Ijen Nature Recreation Park.  Soelthon has built a long career with Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI), where he has held senior leadership positions and currently serves as Chair of the Governing Board and Acting Executive Director.  His work has combined spatial analysis, forest-policy research, independent forest monitoring, and advocacy for improved forest governance. He has contributed to major FWI publications including Portrait of the State of Indonesia’s Forests, Six Years of ISPO Implementation, and research on the complex dynamics of forest and land utilization, as well as developing methodologies and tools for civil-society monitoring of forest management and timber legality.  He has also contributed to research on Forest Management Units, community agroforestry, and forest governance, including work on KPH-based monitoring of Indonesia’s Timber Legality Assurance System (SVLK).  His expertise extends to climate and forest policy: he has been engaged in public discussions on deforestation, forest fires, emissions, transparency, and the role of Indigenous Peoples in forest governance.  For Mitra BUMMA, Soelthon brings deep technical and institutional knowledge of Indonesia’s forestry sector, spatial information, forest governance, policy, and monitoring. This is particularly relevant as Mitra BUMMA supports BUMMAs to develop Indigenous forest-management enterprises, pursue multi-use forestry permits, and explore carbon and other ecosystem-service opportunities while ensuring that these emerging economic activities remain grounded in Indigenous territorial governance and control. Mitra BUMMA’s current work explicitly links forestry and carbon development to stronger Indigenous institutions and territorial governance, making Soelthon’s experience especially relevant to the organization’s transition from pilot initiatives toward more sophisticated Indigenous forest economies.