3rd TEDxJakarta

Yes, the time has come for another brain-enticing and passion-burning TEDxJakarta gathering!

TEDxJakarta's 3rd event is proud to be a part of Global Entrepreneurial Week, supported by British Council, with another awesome, internationally respected speaker lineup.

Yuyun Ismawati is an expert on something that most people are too disgusted to even talk about: waste. Winner of the Goldman Prize in 2009, the Nobel Prize for the Environment, she is awarded for implementing effective sustainable community-based waste and sanitation management programs that provide employment opportunities to low-income people and empower them to improve the environment. Discontent with her previous career as an environmental engineer for consultant firms, she embarked on a passionate journey of providing real and direct solution to the increasingly deadly waste problems in poor communities. This Ashoka Fellow was involved in the development of SANIMAS, a nationwide initiative of sanitation by communities covering hundreds of locales across Indonesia, and also in formulating Indonesia's first-ever bill on waste management and its strategy in facing climate change. Single mother of two, she founded her own NGO, Bali Fokus, that is committed in designing waste management programs for numerous villages and cities by actively involving households as partners. Yuyun has begun expanding her area of interest by establishing Indonesia's Toxic-Free Network (TFN).

Hokky Situngkir is a young and brilliant researcher who has a thing for complexity in its purest scientific sense. Although his work and background may seem to be exclusively scientific, this ITB graduate always attempts to apply his expertise on non-scientific issues, such as the stock market and even Batik. Being only 31 years old, he is currently the President of Bandung Fe Institute, a research institute on social complexity in Indonesia, who has written many books based on his ingenious findings, such as "Fisika Batik," "Solusi Untuk Indonesia: Prediksi Kompleksitas/Ekonofisik" and "Aplikasi Fisika dalam Analisis Keuangan". His passion and interests vary from music and film to such complex scientific matters as artificial society and computational science. He has also given numerous talks with his fellow young researchers at Bandung Fe at universities and government departments, both in Indonesia as well as abroad.

Silverius Oscar Unggul is not familiar with the words "giving up". An environmental crusader since his university days, he began documenting the illegal logging practices of private companies in Southeast Sulawesi since 1998. Since no media would publish his findings, he established the community's own radio station, and later, a TV station in Kendari, all delivering information on local environmental issues and natural resource management. Realizing that local communities can actually turn a profit by preserving the environment, Silverius launched Network for the Forest (JAUH) in 2002, an organization that shares knowledge and create the economic incentives to allow local people to become major actors in environmental conservation. He is now the Vice President of Telapak, a national environmental group that helps other villages around the country form logging cooperatives and manage sustainable forests.

It is thanks to passionate people like Jacko Hendrick Ayub Bullan that our rich cultural inheritance remains alive and sustained. Born and raised in Kupang, NTT, Jacko is only one among fewer than 10 experts of sasando playing in all of Indonesia, most of whom are of the old generation. Not only does he play, this young and dedicated man makes this aesthetic traditional instrument from Rote Island, NTT, including the electric sasando. He recently performed in the United Nations Headquarters, New York, as part of Indonesia's trade and tourism promotion campaign. He has captivated audiences across Indonesia and even the world. We are honored to have Jacko play this nearly extinct musical instrument for us at TEDxJakarta.

All talks will be conducted in Bahasa Indonesia.

In addition to speakers' talks and music performance, we will also have booths that will showcase inspiring, innovative, and bold local projects and initiatives, such as IF Media, Bandung Fe Institut, etc. As usual, to help keep the brain stimulated, we will be providing free yummy snacks and drinks that will guarantee a boost to your serotonin levels :)

This event is free of charge.

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