Meet Our Team

The people behind Ohana Indonesia Organization

Risnawati Utami

Founder & Executive Director

She is a wheelchair user because of polio when she was 4 years old. She graduated from the Law School, Sebelas Maret University in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia and she spends most of the time to be an activist in the disability rights movement since 1999 until recently.

She has been managing the disability rights and policy, lecturing at the universities, writing book, articles and she has been the keynote speaker at the numerous disability-focused symposiums/conferences, trainings and seminars in Indonesia and International fellowship ini 2006 to accomplish her master degree in International Health Policy and Management at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Branddeis University, MA, USA

Buyung Ridwan Tanjung

Co-Founder

Has been an activist in labor movement and human rights since 1995. In 1999 he was involved in various NGOs both in Yogyakarta and Central Jawa as a founder, a staff and;or a facillitator, besides handling cases in court, he also writes for mass media, facilitates workshops and speaks at many seminars.

He did his undergraduate study at the faculty of Law Universitas Sebelas Maret Solo (UNS) in 1999. Three years later, in 2002, he received his license as an advocate/ lawyer in 2008, sponsored by Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program, he pursued a study and obatained an LL.M/Master’s Degree in Law International Law of Human Rights program at Utrecht University. The netherlands.