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What I’ve Learned: Andrea Gunawan, sexual health content creator

Andrea Gunawan is hell-bent on bringing topics like non-monogamous relationships, childfree lifestyles and the dangers of relying on the Internet for external validation to the forefront of today’s conversation. 

1 year ago
People

What I've Learned: Sam Olam, Human Rights Activist

There are some people you meet who are simply operating on a higher plane of decency, grace, and thoughtfulness than the rest of us. Sam Olam is one of them. ...

1 year ago
People

What I’ve Learned: Yanuar Nugroho, former deputy chief of staff to the President

If activism takes a million forms, Yanuar Nugroho knows the ins and outs of 999,999 of them. ...

2 years ago

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New perspective: Rebeka Pinaima wants to change what it means to see a psychologist and marriage counselor. (Courtesy of Rebeka Pinaima)
People

What I’ve Learned: Rebeka Pinaima, psychologist and marriage counselor

In a world soaked with pseudo-healing and self-help you would think everyone would seek out someone like Rebeka Pinaima. But they don’t. Because the reality is, people do not want to put in the work.

2 years ago
Down under: Jessica Washington in Australia, reporting on the bushfires (Courtesy of Jessica Washington)
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What I’ve Learned: Jessica Washington, journalist

Al Jazeera’s Jessica Washington has reported everything from the measles outbreak in Samoa, the 2019 bushfires in Australia, the COVID-19 situation in Indonesia, and the Kanjuruhan stadium disaster.

2 years ago
Leader: Belinda Tanoto spearheaded the Tanoto Foundation's approach to stunting. (Courtesy of Belinda Tanoto)
People

What I’ve Learned: Belinda Tanoto, philanthropist

For the past decade, Belinda Tanoto has established herself as a leading figure in the philanthropic space, in both Indonesia and beyond. She’s the kind of philanthropist who constantly seeks to challenge her team and herself.

2 years ago
What I've Learned: Prasetya Dwicahya, the ministry’s math-minded museum reformer. (Courtesy of Matthew Santana)
People

What I’ve Learned: Prasetya Dwicahya, the ministry’s math-minded museum reformer

What I’ve Learned is a column that presents candid interviews with policymakers, artists, activists and business people on facing challenges and making a difference.

2 years ago
Everyone: Dr. Ranti works with mothers and children from all sorts of backgrounds (Courtesy of Dr. Ranti)
People

What I've Learned: Dr. Ranti Hannah, breastfeeding activist and lactation consultant

Dr. Ranti Hannah spends her days guiding this generation of mothers along a path they might have otherwise never thought possible.

2 years ago
Work from the heart: Sherwin Ufi, the Division Head of Governance and Human Development for the Agency for Regional Planning, Research and Development in Rote Ndao, East Nusa Tenggara, said that he would fight for the local communities like he would for his own family. (Courtesy of Sherwin Ufi)
People

Sherwin Ufi: Rote government reformer

'What I’ve learned' is a column that presents candid interviews with policymakers, artists, activists and businesspeople on facing challenges and making a difference.

2 years ago
Inner activism: Ayu Kartika Dewi, a cofounder of the SabangMerauke student exchange program and Perempuan Gagal, a women’s platform for sharing personal failures, talks about how she approaches the many hats she wears, including being a special staffer to the President. (Courtesy of Ayu Kartika Dewi)
Community

Ayu Kartika Dewi: Special staff to the President

Insightful, modest, mindful and compassionate, Ayu’s activism is a unique blend of worldly experience and empathy to foster tolerance and build peace.

2 years ago
Lead with care: Denica Riadini-Flesch (left), the founder and CEO of SukkhaCitta, prides herself on working with villages, not factories.
Community

What I’ve learned: Denica Riadini-Flesch, founder and CEO of SukkhaCitta

‘What I’ve Learned’ is a column that presents candid interviews with policymakers, artists, activists and businesspeople on facing challenges and making a difference.

2 years ago
One step at a time: Serving as a board member in numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Kristin Soeryadjaya says it is important to focus on one or two areas that you feel passionate about so you do not burn out. (Courtesy of Kristin Soeryadjaya)
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Kristin Soeryadjaya, board member extraordinaire

'What I’ve Learned’ is a column that presents candid interviews with policymakers, artists, activists and businesspeople on facing challenges and making a difference.

2 years ago
Taking action: Stevia Angesty started Feelwell Ceramics (FWC), aiming to bring safe sanitation to some of the poorest communities in Indonesia. 
People

What I’ve learned: Stevia Angesty, Feelwell Ceramics founder

Stevia Angesty left her career at McKinsey to start Feelwell Ceramics (FWC) and made it her mission to bring safe sanitation to some of the poorest communities in Indonesia. 

2 years ago
For love of Indonesia: Kopernik cofounder and chief operating officer Ewa Wojkowska (center rear, in black top) is pictured with a group of ergonomic weavers in Lembata, East Nusa Tenggara.
Community

What I’ve learned: Ewa Wojkowska, cofounder COO of NGO Kopernik

What I’ve Learned is a column that presents candid interviews with policymakers, artists, activists and businesspeople on facing challenges and making a difference.

2 years ago
For the mothers: In Kupang regency, Naomi Laiputa goes "door-to-door and talks with the moms to ensure they know what it means to raise happy, healthy children," she said.
People

What I’ve Learned: Naomi Laiputa, Eastern Indonesia’s barefoot doctor

Armed with a little more than a smile, a growth chart and a big heart, Naomi Laiputa oversees more than 10,000 mothers and children across Kupang regency, some 3,000 kilometers from the sprawling metropolis of Jakarta.

2 years ago
No label: Cofounder of the POST, an independent bookshop and publisher in South Jakarta, Maesy Angelina said, "Activism is first and foremost about other people and not for yourself. So I wouldn’t call what I do activism. I don’t like labels." (Instagram/maesy_ang)
Books

What I’ve learned: Maesy Angelina, indie bookshop POST cofounder

Whether it is shrugging off labels or simply staying true to why she started POST—an independent bookshop and publisher in Pasar Santa, South Jakarta—, Maesy Angelina looks back on what she’s learned with a fondness and maturity we should all strive to adopt.

2 years ago
Financing the future: Michael Gilmore, cofounder of the Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards, believes that children should be taught personal finance at school, and that the world still has something to learn about money from Indonesia. (Courtesy of Michael Gilmore)
People

[What I've Learned] Michael Gilmore: Financial literacy advocate

What I’ve Learned is a column that presents candid interviews with policymakers, artists, activists and businesspeople on facing challenges and making a difference.

2 years ago
Changemaker: Paloma Sjahrir Foundation director Arief Aziz says it is his "mission to serve and help people on the front lines".
Community

What I’ve learned: Arief Aziz, relentless reformer

Arief Aziz looks at the world through an ever-evolving philosophical lens to better understand how to solve some of the biggest problems facing society today. 

2 years ago
Fight against plastic: Tiza Mafira attends the Pawai Bebas Plastik (Plastic Free March) in Jakarta in July. (Instagram/Tiza Mafira)
People

What I’ve learned: Activist Tiza Mafira

Tiza Mafira is the star of Pulau Plastik (Plastic Island), a documentary on plastic pollution. The lawyer and mother of two shared what she learned from more than two decades of fighting to save our planet.  

2 years ago
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