Damar Juniarto is a prominent human rights activist who is known for his work on digital rights and online freedom of expression in the Southeast Asia region.

Since 2013, he is the co-founder and Executive Director at Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet), a regional organization focused on promoting and protecting digital rights in Southeast Asian countries. Damar also serves as Advisor at DigitalReach, a regional organization that looks into the impact of technology on human rights in Southeast Asia.

In 2022, an international nonprofit journalism organization Rest of the World has identified him as one of the 100 people outside the West whose efforts impact more people than anyone in Silicon Valley and put his name on 2022 RoW100 Global Tech’s Changemakers list. In 2021, he received the Anugerah Dewan Pers (Indonesia’ Press Council Award) for an individual who committed to promoting press freedom in Indonesia. In the same year he was also selected as Trust Conference Changemakers Program 2021 of the UK-based Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Apart from being a speaker at international, regional and national forums, he also often writes his opinions on New Media, Social Media, digital policies, online freedom of expression in various media, journals and books. Before working on digital rights and public policy, he had more than 15 years working experiences in communication industries: advertising, media production, and journalism.