Fellows

Communication Specialist

Address:
Jalan Bantarkemang 173, Bogor, 16143, Indonesia
Phone: + 62 251 379 138
Cell phone +62 811 109 389
Email: kirana63@indo.net.id

Chandra Kirana has exhausted the different roles a civil society actor could play, among others as a farmer organizer in Central Java, a co-founder of a local NGO in supporting local farmers, an women’s rights activist, Greenpeace Toxics campaign coordinator in Southeast Asia, a communications and advocacy strategy adviser for Biodiversity Support Program-Kemala, as Director of communications and outreach at the WWF-Indonesia office, while a mother of four children. She has assisted in various creative story telling and documentation of social movements, with Global Greengrants Fund and Samdhana.

She helps set up community school children and farmer families of the school children in Sekaralas Central Java to study and revive homeopathic and nutritional values of local plants, trees and herbs, becoming rare from deforestation and lack sustainable efforts for appreciation of traditional knowledge.

In her pastime, Chandra has set up a partnership with fellow craftswomen for bead-making enterprise (micro) called ‘Kirosia’ which skills she hopes will expand to local women crafts designers in various villages, to serve as alternative source of income, and offer a favorite pastime.