Meet our RUPES Program Coordinator, Leimona, who joined the World Agroforestry Centre - Southeast Asia (ICRAF-SEA) in January 2002. She worked as RUPES Project Officer for almost 5 years before being assigned as the RUPES Program Manager taking care of daily operations of RUPES activities under the direction of RUPES Project Coordinator. One year before RUPES II proposal was approved for funding by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Lei was appointed the coordinator of the project.

Aresearcher specializing in environmental services and community-based natural resource management issues, Lei has over seven years of experience in natural resource governance and policy, environmental and social impact assessment, training program development, donor program coordination, and institutional capacity strengthening.is experienced in designing, planning, organizing and evaluating multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder activities as well as monitoring and evaluating project performance toward strategic, programmatic and financial objectives. 

Her major concern is developing and overseeing pro-poor reward for environmental services initiatives in Asia together with international donor organizations, regional government partners, research and civil society organizations. She applies experimental economics and natural resource governance to analyze and design solutions to enhancing environmental services, poverty alleviation, fairness and efficiency issues of innovative rewards for environmental schemes, including the pro-poor carbon market and climate.

Lei obtained her bachelor and master degrees on Landscape Architecture at  Bogor Agricultural University where she serves as a visiting lecture at its Graduate Program. On October 3rd, 2011she earned her doctoral degree at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands. She can be contacted at l.beria@cgiar.org

Chandra joined RUPES since August 2010. As Project Officer he is responsible to assist Project Coordinator in managing the whole project. He hold a master degree in GIS.

You can contact him by email at c.wijaya@cgiar.org

Indah joined RUPES since July 2011 as Project Assistant. She was graduated from Bogor Agricultural University, majoring Forest Management in 2005. Her responsibility includes managing RUPES Project administration to ensure project activities run smoothly. She is the first person to contact before you visit our office and meeting with the RUPES Project Coordinator or other researcher.

You can contact her at i.fajarwati@cgiar.org or by phone at +62-251-8625415 ext. 739

Rachman joined the World Agroforestry Centre - Southeast Asia (ICRAF-SEA) in May 2006 as a Research Assistant for RUPES Project in Sumberjaya, Lampung. In September 2008, he was moved to Bogor for his present new role. Besides doing many research activities, he is also responsible to develop and coordinate links with RUPES Indonesian national network, including government, non-government institutions and universities, strengthen communication between RUPES partners in Indonesia, provide supervision and guidance to ICRAF and partner colleagues in community mobilization and site monitoring, including design, manage and report on the implementation of various site-level researches at the RUPES sites. 

Rachman graduated in July 2005 from Bogor Agricultural University majoring in Forest Resources Conservation. He is now pursuing his Master degree at the same university on Environment and Resources Management. You can contact Rachman by email at r.pasha@cgiar.org

Irma graduated from Forest Conservation and Ecotourism Department, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University. Having interest in forest and environmental issues, she was active in youth organization concerning on environment during her university years. After graduated she keep working in forest related work and since January 2009 until June 2011 she joined the World Agroforestry Centre - Southeast Asia (ICRAF-SEA) as RUPES Project Assistant.

She is now responsible as RUPES communication assistant. One of her tasks is updating the website with news and stories from RUPES research sites. She is more than happy to contact if you have questions or suggestions regarding RUPES website and its content.

You can contact her by email at i.nurhayati@cgiar.org