Our Team

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Denni Nurdwiansyah

Chairman of The Executive Board

Denni Nurdwiansyah

Chairman of The Executive Board

Denni is a forester with 10 years of experience in developing and managing various projects on REDD+ mitigation, payment of ecosystem services, social forestry, sustainable palm oil supply chains, impact investment, and stakeholder engagement. He has managed over 20 projects during his professional carrier. He received his master's degree in forest management at the University of Tanjungpura.

He is the founder of Bentang Kalimantan Tangguh and has been the chairman of the Executive Board of Bentang since January 2022. He is also involved in project management as an independent consultant for IDH the sustainable trade initiative, and GIZ for REDD+ mitigation projects. He has made a remarkable contribution to REDD+ implementation at the sub-national level, developing jurisdictional strategy and action plan on REDD+, Forest Reference Emission Levels, Emission Reduction Intervention Strategies, and MRV reports. He also led and involved in many initiatives related to climate financing. He led the provincial REDD+ team to access funding from Green Climate Fund for REDD+ mitigation and adaptation activity at a provincial jurisdictional scale. His motto is ease is a greater threat than hardship.

Email:denni@bentangkalimantan.org

Anton P Widjaya

Director

Anton P Widjaya

Director

Anton P Widjaya is a forester and environmental activist with more than 20 years of experience building and managing projects and programs for sustainable natural resource management and empowering indigenous peoples. He specializes in facilitating communities and campaigning for strengthening community rights in sustainable natural resource management. He has expertise in campaigning, training, organizer, project management, and organizational management with experience working at the Institute of Dayakology – Pancur Kasih (1999-2011), Regional Council of Friend of the Earth (WALHI) West Kalimantan (2008-2011), Director of Friend of the Earth (WALHI) West Kalimantan 2011-2015 and 2015 -2019, Supervisory Board of Sawit Watch 2016-202, Director of Tangguh Bentang Kalimantan, and founder of various environmental organizations. He has contributed to strengthening the environmental and indigenous peoples movements in West Kalimantan and Indonesia. He holds a Bachelor of Forestry on Forest Management from the University of Tanjungpura, Pontianak

Email:antonwidjaya@bentangkalimantan.org

Silvia Filki

Head of Finance Department

Silvia Filki

Head of Finance Department

Silvia Filki has worked as a finance specialist for more than 7 years. She learned financial systems and mechanisms from different donors that her organization collaborated. She is able to manage and report multi-donor projects that have different standards. In terms of finance reports, she can create reports following ISAK 35 as the current accounting standards. The key to financial leadership is adaptation and building trust with each staff and management. To uphold transparency and accountability, she leads the team to conduct an annual audit both for organization and projects, both internal and external.

Email:filki@bentangkalimantan.org

Khairuddin Zacky

Head of Legal HR Department

Khairuddin Zacky

Head of Legal HR Department

Experienced in legal advocacy both litigation and non-litigation and public policy as well as concern in legal assistance for people who are unable to deal with legal issues and seeking conflict resolution using Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) or disputes outside the court cooperatively. Skilled in drafting contracts and legal drafting (designers and drafters) of policies and regulations. Stakeholder Engagement, Jurisdictional Approaches, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Policy Reform

Email:khairuddin@bentagkalimantan.org

Selvianus Saludan

Landscape Manager

Selvianus Saludan

Landscape Manager

Selvianus Saludan is a social and environmental activist with 7 years of experience managing programs, providing assistance, organizing, and community empowerment activities. Specialist in social forestry issues, especially those related to village and customary forests, and community empowerment. He has expertise in mentoring, community organizing, facilitation and communication, and program monitoring and evaluation. By following the development of the REDD+ concept and forestry programs, he is proficient in leading programs that adopt internationally recognized standards, such as the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Standard (CCBS). He holds a Bachelor of Social and Political at the University of Tanjungpura, Pontianak

Email:vian@bentangkalimantan.org

Ivannalis Saputra

Technical Units Manager

Ivannalis Saputra

Technical Units Manager

Ivannalis is a GIS Specialist working on Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) issues with five years of experience. He contributes his knowledge to the decision maker by providing any related spatial data. With his current capability, he is adept at conducting advanced spatial data analysis, especially in forestry and REDD+ issues, such as land-use/land-cover change analysis, land-use projection, deforestation/forest degradation analysis, and as baseline emission, emission reduction/removals analysis. By following his work environment, he also adopts a certain approach to ensure the analysis is proper to use at a broad level. Currently, he can also conduct emission reduction analysis using the approved approach, such as Plan Vivo Standard through PT001: Estimation of Climate benefits from REDD in community-managed forests, and VCS standard through VM007: REDD+ Methodology Framework, especially for Avoiding Unplanned Deforestation (AUDD) and Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) Project. He holds a Bachelor of Agriculture under Major Land Resources Management at Tanjungpura University.

Email:ivannalis@bentangkalimantan.org

Antonius Purwanto Tito

Program Manager Good Agriclture Practices

Antonius Purwanto Tito

Program Manager Good Agriclture Practices

Tito is an agricultural practitioner who always develops himself to encourage the development of agriculture in the modern era through appropriate technology. The application of knowledge is not self-consumed but channeled to the community by being involved in various projects, starting from creating Indonesian food security through the ministry of agriculture program, being involved in social forestry projects to designing environmentally friendly agriculture in forest areas (agroforestry), developing types of flower feed. bees, increased production of fresh fruit bunches of oil palm (FFB) through best management practice.

In addition, he is a Specialist in community empowerment projects. He has expertise in mentoring, community organizing, facilitation and communication, as well as program monitoring and evaluation. He is also a program manager in the global yield gap atlas research project for Indonesian palm oil in West Kalimantan.

"The ultimate goal of planting is not growing plants, but preserving life."

He holds a bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Tanjungpura, Pontianak

Email:tito@bentangkalimantan.org

Intan G. Tanjung

Finance & Administration Staff

Intan G. Tanjung

Finance & Administration Staff

Intan gustarina tanjung has worked as finance and financial administration for approximately 6 years. Working as a financial administrator requires me to have high accuracy in managing, filing and checking financial reports, because an administrative finance person is a person who is responsible for all financial activities, be it income or expenses and assets in the office, besides that, you must have the skills In terms of the process of negotiating with vendors for the supply of goods and services, and to support the administrative process, good and maintained communication is needed with the authorized officials, staff and vendors involved.

Email:intan@bentangkalimantan.org

Dhani Satria Putra

Manager Youtube

Dhani Satria Putra

Manager Youtube

Dhani Satria Putra also called Dhani, is a forester whose work is mostly directed to the documentation sector, digital platforms, video campaigns and advertisements, creating content for most social media.

Although most of his current work is related to social media, Dhani during his studies was always active in environmental management activities, community empowerment, social data collection, and was active in campus external and internal organizations.

Dhani is a freelancer who worked on photo and video documentary before he and his brother Denni founded an agency called Digital Raya Agensi (DIGITRA) which works in digital business development strategy services, content research and analysis, social media management, social media content production and advertising, and some product sales.

Dhani is the founder of ASGAR Wedding Group, an organizer engaged in the field of wedding services, especially photo and video documentation services and has been an advisor at Irish Photo, a wedding photo and video service until now.

Email:dhani@bentangkalimantan.org

Risky Hidayat

Content Creator Staff

Risky Hidayat

Content Creator Staff

Rizky Hidyat also called Rizky is a forester whose work is mostly directed to the digital platforms, video campaigns and advertisements, creating content for most social media. advertising and content distribution, data analysis and social media research, content ideas and strategies, and production of all types of social media content especially on the YouTube platform.

Email:rizky@bentangkalimantan.org

Dario Ramandanu

Graphic Designer

Dario Ramandanu

Graphic Designer

Dario is a graphic designer and social media specialist who has a passion for creating visually stunning designs. With 5 years of design experience, he has a deep understanding of visual communication, design principles and brand development. He is skilled in using software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro.

In addition to design expertise, he also has experience in managing and enhancing social media accounts, creating engaging content that helps increase brand awareness and audience engagement. Currently he is starting out in advertising, digital marketing and he enjoys working on various projects in various industries.

Email:dario@bentangkalimantan.org

Claudia Liberani

MRV Supervisor

Claudia Liberani

MRV Supervisor

Claudia has four years of experience campaigning for the issue of climate change and its impact on forest communities through various media. Since 2019 she has built a collective movement for young people concerned about the environment, culture and education to document local wisdom about nature in Kapuas Hulu. She believes that forest management and efforts to tackle climate change must be carried out holistically, across disciplines and across generations. Young people have an important role in efforts to care for the earth, therefore environmental issues must become popular issues so that more and more young people can understand them and contribute to forest management and mitigating the impacts of climate change. She joined the Eco Blogger community to campaign for climate change issues through writing.

Before working on environmental issues, Claudia was a journalist who wrote about education, culture and environmental issues in Pontianak. Experience working as a journalist made her aware that any positive efforts made by a person or institution would not reach the public if they were not disseminated through writing, pictures or videos. Claudia always uses storytelling techniques in creating content for the communication products she makes, she can also work flexibly in a team or alone. She focuses on village empowerment, education and climate change adaptation efforts by young people.

Email:claudialiberani@bentangkalimantan.org

Trisnah Aristandi

Community Development Specialist

Trisnah Aristandi

Community Development Specialist

Trisnah Aristandi or familiarly called Aris is a local young activist from Kapuas Hulu Regency who is actively involved in carrying out movements and campaigning on social, cultural and environmental issues. Since 2018 he has been actively building a spirit of caring for the environment and culture by mobilizing young people in his village. Aris has a strong belief that care and a sense of belonging. become the main capital in maintaining the natural and cultural wealth owned. Aris is actively involved in various movements and organizations that have issues and focus on social, cultural and environmental issues.

Since 2019, Aris began to hone his knowledge of the green economy by attending many seminars and trainings. Aris believes that the economy of people living around forest areas is an important thing to pay attention to so that climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts can be realized properly.

In addition, Aris is also a young businessman who has a strong vision and strategy in building and managing a business. Armed with confidence and good communication, Aris tries to overcome all limitations by utilizing the potentials that exist in Kapuas Hulu to be developed into a promising business.

Email:aris@bentangkalimantan.org

Leonardus Nuccy

Field Staff

Leonardus Nuccy

Field Staff

Leonardus Nuccy is a social and environmental activist with approximately 7 years managing the program, providing access to capital, organizing and community empowerment activities. She actively encourages women to play an important role in all aspects of national and state life.

With her active social and environmental activities, women, especially the Iban Dayak Tribe, received awards at National, International events and participated in Local, National and International level exhibitions. The National Level Award is the best category at the National Culture Week in 2021 and the International Event Award, the World Crafts Council (WCC) Award of Excellence For Handicrafts 2018 Sounth – East Asia Sub-region.

He holds a Bachelor of Education degree from the Open University, Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan.

Email:nuccy@bentangkalimantan.org

Try Suhendra

Field Staff

Try Suhendra

Field Staff

Enda was a forester who dedicated himself during his studies to being active in student executive board organizations, and often campaigned on environmental issues. After finishing college, I actively participated in research related to flora and fauna with Cipor. After that, Enda also became the coordinator of forest and land rehabilitation for 2 years in Sintang, Kayan Hilir and Kayan Hulu Districts

Email:enda@bentangkalimantan.org

Endah Julia Amini

Field Finance Staff

Endah Julia Amini

Field Finance Staff

Endah Julia Amini is a fresh graduate from The State Polytechnic of Pontianak and started a career as a field finance in Bentang Kalimantan Tangguh, Julia responsible for a finance report and asset in Kapuas Hulu. After Julia graduate and start working as a finance staff, Julia consider this job as a challenge for herself and make her enthusiastic to learn a new things.

Email:ej.amini@bentangkalimantan.org

Nurul Pratiwiningrum

Field Manager

Nurul Pratiwiningrum

Field Manager

Combining her passion for nature, environment, and social welfare, Nurul brings her experience in Socioeconomic Agriculture, disaster risk reduction, and community development, previously closed as Field Manager at Bentang Kalimantan Tangguh.

After studying passionately and obtaining a Bachelor of Agriculture degree from Gadjah Mada University, Nurul has developed an interest in forging links between Agriculture, Farmer's Socio-Economy, social welfare, and the quality of Human Resources. She has been involved in several projects that impact the environment and human communities, people in remote areas, and activities that affect the quality of life and economic status. Nurul is naturally curious, so she is internally motivated to conduct more activities to explore practical ways to provoke the current tension. The climate crisis is getting worse, but the controls that are being implemented have yet to bring significant progress. With her experience and passion for people development, she is always enthusiastic about finding nature-based solutions and improving Indonesia's quality of life and equitable development. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, hiking, coffee, and reading. She loved reading and made friends at every project site she worked on.

Email:nurul@bentangkalimantan.org

Deary Rakhmadi

Conservation and Biodiversity Specialist

Deary Rakhmadi

Conservation and Biodiversity Specialist

Deary Rakhmadi is a seasoned professional with over 10 years of experience in the fields of forestry, agriculture, and sustainable plantations. His expertise in these areas, coupled with a deep concern for the positive impact of the agricultural and forestry sectors on society, has positioned him as a strategic thinker focused on accountable progress.

Commencing his career in Forest Area Planning at the Forestry and Plantation Office of Kapuas Hulu Regency, Deary became involved in supporting Forestry Administration Reform initiatives, such as the establishment of Forest Management Units (FMUs). His skills in geospatial technology led him to join the Forest and Climate Change Program (FORCLIME), a collaboration between the Indonesian and German governments through the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. This initiative aimed to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, promote conservation, sustainable forest management, and carbon stock enhancement.

Deary took responsibility for 33 partner villages in the Demonstration Activity REDD+ area, conducting MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) and carbon inventory activities. His role included monitoring land cover changes, processing and analyzing satellite images, conducting drone flights and photo analysis, mapping village boundaries, and advocating for the establishment of Social Forestry in 12 villages with the Village Forest Scheme.

Within the district, Deary served as a member of the Mediation Team for Kapuas Hulu Regency in the Conflict Resolution Desk Team, addressing conflicts related to land and natural resource management. Additionally, he served as a Technical Officer for Kapuas Hulu Regency in the Provincial, Regency, Subdistrict, and Village Boundary Determination and Clarification Team.

Deary Rakhmadi remains committed to his vision that agriculture and sustainable forest management will be a driver of significant social change. Its success in embracing geospatial technology and its ability to interact with the community in a participatory manner make it a valuable asset in ensuring sustainable progress and benefits for society at large. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture in the Department of Agronomy at Panca Bhakti University, Pontianak.

Email:deary@bentangkalimantan.org

Dwi Prasetyo

Field Staff

Dwi Prasetyo

Field Staff

Dwi Prasetyo or familiarly called Tyo is an individual who not only portrays himself as a talented professional in the field of technology, but also as someone who care about social, cultural, and environmental issues. Tyo is a local young activist from Kapuas Hulu Regency, West Kalimantan, who actively supports social issues, fighting for equality and inclusion in every aspect of life.

In addition, Tyo also has a deep concern for preserving local culture. He is actively involved in various movements and organizations in an effort to preserve cultural herigate and traditions, ensuring that these values can be passed on to future generation.

On the environmental side, Tyo is committed to contributing to environmental protection and ecosystems. He is involved in projects that support environmentally friendly pratices and strives to raise awareness of the importance of nature conservation. Not only does it reflect professional excellence, but it also shows that success it not limited to personal success, but also to how one can have a positive impact on society and the environment.

Email:dprasetyo@bentangkalimantan.org

Yohanes Bobbie Yanter

Field Staff

Yohanes Bobbie Yanter

Field Staff

Yohanes Bobbie Yanter is a forestry expert who during his studies devoted himself to being active in the student executive body organization, and often campaigned on environmental issues. I also really like interacting directly with the community and sharing knowledge. After completing college, I immediately worked at BPDASHL Kapuas as a forest and land rehabilitation supervisor and assessor for 6 months. in Melawi Regency, Ella Hilir District, Penyuguk Village.

Email:bobbie@bentangkalimantan.org

Cindy Claudia

Field Staff

Cindy Claudia

Field Staff

Cindy Claudia, is a fresh graduate from Tanjungpura University Pontianak and started her career as field staff at Bentang Kalimantan Tangguh, Cindy is responsible for program implementation and program implementation reports in Kapuas Hulu. After Cindy graduated and started working as field staff, Cindy considered this job as a challenge for her and motivated her to continue to be enthusiastic about learning new things..

Email:cindy@bentangkalimantan.org

Florina Leonora Tyana

Field Saff

Florina Leonora Tyana

Field Saff

Florina Leonora Tyana, also known as Florina, is a local people from Kapuas Hulu who has a strong interest in youth movements and social issues such as the environment, indigenous culture, and community empowerment. With three years of experience in rural community development and empowerment practices, Florina has excellent communication skills and is able to lead projects with ease. I also well-versed in computer literacy and speaks fluent English. I believe that being adaptable and self-motivated are important traits for success in fast-paced environments. Since 2019, I engage my skill as a facilitator, communicating and coordinating with the local communities. My tagline is “it’s always been good to be home”, keep pushing the boundaries, as my efforts are not only beneficial for me but I hope, impact the local community itself.

Email:florina@bentangkalimantan.org

Klara Kulansari MP

Field FInance

Klara Kulansari MP

Field FInance

Klara Kulansari MP is a fresh graduate from Tanjungpura University and started a career as a field finance in Bentang Kalimantan Tangguh. Klara responsible for a finance report and asset in Kapuas Hulu. After Klara graduate and start working as a finance staff, Klara consider this job as a challenge for herself and make her enthusiastic to learn a new things.

Email:klara@bentangkalimantan.org

Frans Hasudungan Hutagalung

Field Manager

Frans Hasudungan Hutagalung

Field Manager

Frans Hasudungan Hutagalung is a graduate in the field of forestry science who was an active student in organizational activities. While completing my studies, I have often participated in field activities aimed at biodiversity research and environmental impact analysis study activities aimed at compiling environmental assessment documents.

After graduating from the forestry faculty, I immediately worked in the field of activities related to the environment for 3 years and 6 months, where these activities were related to mitigation, emission reduction, degradation and deforestation or commonly called REDD+.

I gained a lot of experience at PT. Hatfield Indonesia with several programs that I was able to realize such as: social forestry areas, improving community livelihood sources and the construction of production houses as a means of supporting community economic improvement activities

Email:franshutagalung@bentangkalimantan.org

Okha Hendra Utama

Field Staff

Okha Hendra Utama

Field Staff

Okha has 5 years of experience campaigning on climate change issues. The experience was gained when he started his career working in the Forest and Climate Change Program (FORCLIME), a collaboration between the Indonesian and German governments through the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. This initiative aims to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, promote conservation, sustainable forest management, and increase carbon stocks.

In the Program, Okha served as a Field Guide and was tasked with assisting 6 Villages in 2 Districts in the REDD+ Demonstration Activity area, the Siawan - Belida area. His role includes mentoring, directing, mobilizing, and empowering community groups in implementing the FORCLIME-FC program in the DA area and communities in and around the DA area.

He is in line with the simple philosophy of Bentang Kalimantan Tangguh, namely small changes for big impacts. He believes that every small change is important in community empowerment. He earned a Bachelor of Agriculture degree in the Department of Agronomy at Tanjungpura University, Pontianak