Staff
Ismoerdijahwati Koeshandari Rahayu
Board
An ITB graduate in Fine Arts, she is a caring person, particularly for education issues, such as education for poor children. Beside teaching in her alma mater and serving as a member of BIGS’s governing body, Ika establishes and manages “Taboo”, an education community and library in Bandung.
Taufan Hidayatullah
Board
Joining BIGS since 2002 and becoming a member of BIGS’s governing body since 2007, the man holds Dean of Visual Communication Design in UNIKOM (Computer University of Indonesia). His interests in observing social, arts and cultural issues are well applied in his caricature and illustration works that reflect contemporary social and political condition.
Siti Fatimah
Director of BIGS
Joining BIGS since 2003, this Bandung-born woman is a graduate of Social and Political Science Faculty, majoring International Relation, Padjadjaran University. She led several researches, such as budget tracking, gender responsive budget, citizen report card, and governance and anti-corruption index. Beside researching, Siti Fatimah also facilitates these studies. She wrote some books, such as Pendidikan Politik Anggaran untuk Warga, Persepsi dan Preferensi Politik Orang Bandung, Panduan Penyelenggaraan Citizen Report Card. She participated some international trainings, such as “Intermediate Training on Budget Advocacy” in Cambodia. Currently, she studies at Development Study of ITB (Bandung Institute of Technology) for her master degree.
Suhud Darmawan
Deputy of Director
This ex journalist joins BIGS since 2002 to initiate and develops BUJET Bulletin. His interests in media and communication lead him to develop Budget Journalism in BIGS. Some regions in Indonesia, such as Aceh, West Nusa Tenggara, South Kalimantan to Ambon, have been visited by him for the purpose of research, advocacy and media coverage. He also participated in Workshop on Budget Advocacy in Mexico City. As a deputy of director, he is responsible in Division of Budget Resource Center.
Markus Christian
Program Manager
As Program Manager, he is also responsible to manage Division of Governance Reform (DGR) whose main duty is the think tank of the organization in initiating programs and activities according to the vision, missions, and strategies of the organization. He occupies the position due to his experience in researches on education and health, plus his workshop experiences abroad — in Washington and New Delhi.
Syarifah Nuraeni
Finance Manager
Starting her career in BIGS since 2001, she is currently working as Finance Manager, whose jobs include managing and ensuring that all financial processes and procedures of BIGS run well and accountable. She used to work as Admin Assistant in Health Services Program (HSP) – USAID before coming back to BIGS. She participated in several trainings, such as ToT on Budget Political Education for Citizens (held by BIGS in cooperation with Tifa Foundation), training on NGO Management Certificate Program generation VII (held by PACIVIS of University of Indonesia in cooperation with NDI).
Lita Roslita
Office Manager
She began her career as librarian of BIGS in 2005, and then moved to SKEPO as office manager. In 2009 she returned to BIGS and this time her job has been to rearrange and to manage office tasks. Her skill and energetic attitude in managing office duties make BIGS’s office tasks run efficiently and effectively. She loves books and is interested in various social and child issues, and was involved in researches on the issues of labour and child.
Alwin Khafidloh
Program Officer
She knew BIGS since 2005 when she was a student. Now she is one of BIGS’s program motors, particularly in budget and public service issues, such as education and health sectors. This alumnus of Regional and City Planning of ITB enjoys her work as a researcher. She was a coordinator of Advocacy Team of Reducing Maternal Mortality Rate and Infant Mortality Rate team, and is actively engaging in education budget research. In addition to participating research dissemination in Washington, she participated workshop on monitoring of goods and service procurement in Hong Kong.
Yulita Rosa Rangkuti
Program Officer
A mixed blood of Mandailing-Sundanese, she was a freelance contributor of BUJET, a budget bulletin. In 2005, this alumnus of Communication Faculty (FIKOM), majoring Journalism, Padjadjaran University was officially joined BIGS. Being 6-year experienced reporter and radio announcer, she enriches her experience in BIGS’s researches, such as Education and Health Expenditure Analysis in Bandung City, Sumedang Regency, Banjar City and West Java Province (2002-2007), Mapping of Citarum River Stakeholders (2008), and Monitoring on Ecosoc Rights Fulfillment in Education, Health and Economic Sectors (2010-2011). Yulita is now one of program officers of BIGS.
Ronny Hendrawan
Asosiate researcher
This matured man has been working in research and comunity development for a long time. In the middle of his occupation as a teaching staff of socio-technology in ITB, Ronny actively works in BIGS as Asosiate Researcher. His interests in discussions of almost every social, political, cultural and public service issues make BIGS livelier.
Effendi Saleh
Asosiate researcher
He knows BIGS since 2008 from its posters that reveal this institution’s firm pro-genderness. He found this institution in line with his interests in fighting for civil rights, particularly education, health, cultural and youth empowerment issues. As an initiator of Jaring Madani, Effendi doesn’t regret his decision of moving his headquarter from Jakarta to Bandung for more concrete civil rights movement. His background in statistic is very helpful for discussion of research method in BIGS.
Andriyansyah
Assistant Researcher
Joining BIGS as an Intern since 2008, this alumnus of Law Faculty is strongly interested in public policy and advocacy issues. His current research includes transparency and accountability of education fund and research on Economic, Social and Cultural rights fulfillment.
Isye Susana Nurhasanah
Assistant Researcher
Joining BIGS since 2009 as local researcher, she felt to be immediately hooked by the new territory (BIGS). It is here that she started to build her sense of research. Being the alumnus of Planning Science of ITB, Ms. Isye has been interested in management and urban planning issues and is keen to develop more knowledge in Urban Planning, Housing, and Community Development. Currently, she is working on research on Ecosoc rights fulfillment in four cities and research on transparency and accountability of education fund.
Firmansyah Maulana
Assistant Researcher
Joining BIGS in 2009 like his mentor Effendi Saleh, he has interests in social and law issues. This alumnus of Law Faculty of Islamic University of Djakarta finds his way of self-actualization and contributing to society in civil society works with BIGS.