Our Team

Alan White

Chief of Party

Alan White joined TetraTech ARD Inc. in April 2016 to serve as the Chief of Party for the USAID Sustainable Ecosystem Advanced (SEA) Project. Alan has experience in all aspects of coastal management implementation, research, and administration from 30 years of fieldwork in Southeast Asia. He has undertaken studies on the management, conservation, ecology, and economics of coastal resource systems and marine protected areas (MPAs).  He is the founding member of the Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation, Inc. in the Philippines where he did his Pew Fellowship to develop a MPA monitoring system. Alan has a Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii, Department of Geography, in marine resource management. The marine animal he loves to see when he is SCUBA diving on coral reefs in Indonesia is the graceful Manta Ray that glides through the water like a quiet bird with large wings and feeds on plankton and provides a great attraction for diving and snorkeling enthusiasts.

Tiene Gunawan

Deputy Chief of Party

Tiene Gunawan joined the USAID SEA Project in May 2016 as the Deputy Chief of Party.  She has 20 years of experience in conservation planning, capacity development for marine resource and fisheries, and GIS and spatial analysis. She has been working in many policy initiatives in marine resource management in Indonesia and in the Asia-Pacific Region, including the Coral Triangle area and the Bird’s Head Seascape.  She focuses her work in partnership building, policy planning and research, institutional development, as well as in program development and project management. Her research interest is in system dynamic and system modeling for marine spatial plan, the focus of her master and doctorate thesis on coastal resource management at Texas A&M University, and the Institute Pertanian Bogor, respectively. Tiene loves whales, sharks, and rays,... as they are so agile, elegant, and delicate at the same time, and they depend on healthy ocean and sea, in which she dedicates her work to protect them.

Stacey Tighe

Marine Biodiversity Conservation Advisor

Stacey Tighe has more than 30 years of working in international marine and coastal development, coastal hazards and marine conservation. Her academic background includes Masters in Marine Biology, and Marine Affairs, with a PhD in Geological Oceanography. The Marine Biodiversity Conservation Advisor serves as the lead SEA Project technical specialist for successful implementation of marine biodiversity conservation activities across all components.

Rudyanto

Deputy Marine Biodiversity Conservation Advisor

Rudyanto has 24 years of experience in conservation works ranging from forestry, essential ecosystem-wetland and marine resources with a focus on biodiversity monitoring and evaluation. Rudyanto has a master degree from University of Sussex in Environment, Development and Policy. As Deputy for Marine Biodiversity Conservation, Rudy is looking after the 14 MPA sites and coordinate with 4 implementing partners. Rudy also assists the USAID SEA Project at national level. Rudy names Whaleshark when asked about sea animals. For him, being the largest fish in this planet Whaleshark is the gentle giant and feed on the smallest organism in the sea.

Noorafebrianie Minarputri

Marine Conservation Program Specialist

Noorafebrianie Minarputri joined USAID SEA Project in February 2019. She works with Marine Affairs and Fisheries Offices in national, provincial and district level, in developing and managing 15 marine conservation areas in Maluku Utara, Maluku and Papua Barat. She supports them in conserving marine resources in a more sustainable way. Other than marine-related activities, she also enjoy shopping in local markets (where she brings her own bags and containers, of course!). This is her way in reducing marine litter that might ends up killing sea turtles and whales, her two-most favorite marine animals!

Asri Puji Lestari

Marine Conservation Project Specialist

Asri Puji Lestari joined USAID SEA Project in May 2017. She has background in Biological science and graduated as Master of Ecological Studies from Kanazawa University Japan. Before joining SEA Project, Asri was working as a scientist in environmental consultant and was exposed to environmental and socio-economic studies for about five years. Have passion in marine and diving is her hobby, Asri decided to move working in SEA-Project because of her calling in marine conservation. In the mean time she also actively involved in conservation voluntary projects with International and National NGOs. She is inspired by Coral Reef, it is a very important structure and biota especially grow in tropical marine water and it is impacted the fisheries sustainability. Marine Protected Area is mostly working in protecting the coral reef ecosystem hotspots in Indonesia.  

Purwanto

Senior Sustainable Fisheries Advisor

Purwanto joined the USAID SEA Project in December 2016. He has experience as an Indonesian government official, serving for more than 30 years, in the areas of fisheries research, management and development. His expertise includes fish stock assessment, protection and rehabilitation; fisheries monitoring, evaluation, licensing and surveillance; fisheries infrastructure development; small-scale fishery empowerment; and involvement in the bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the field of fisheries research and management. He also has experience working in a number of international donor-funded projects, government-to-government projects, and projects of non-government organizations. He is member of the National Commission for Fisheries Resources Assessment for more than 10 years and was a member of the MMAF Commission for Marine and Fisheries Research and Development. Purwanto received a Ph.D. in fisheries economics from James Cook University (Australia). His favorite marine species is Diatomae because it is small but has big role in marine ecosystem.  

Irna Sari

Sustainable Fisheries Advisor

Irna Sari is a community development and fisheries management specialist with over 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience within the multilateral donor environment. Sari worked on community and economic development for rural livelihoods and smallholder fisheries, including taking into account the human, social, financial, physical, and natural capitals around the global fisheries value chain. She works at the micro and macro levels, collaborating on the business interests of the private sector and fishers alike within the global fisheries value chain and on global food supply governance issues including government regulations related to fishery business’ requirements. Sari holds a master’s in marine and Coastal Science and obtained her Ph.D. in International Development Studies from University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Ses Rini Mardiani

Sustainable Fisheries Specialist

Ses Rini Mardiani joined USAID SEA Project in March 2017. She provides technical advice on activities related to stock assessment and harvest strategy development. She has 10 years experiences working in fisheries and environment issues in field level as well as in local and national government. Her first experience working with fishers was back in 2005 in Sumbawa, NTB. She has her Bachelor degree on Fisheries Resource Management from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta and Master Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Rini likes traveling and do sight-seeing on her free time. When it comes to sea animals, her favorites are octopus and squid because they are so unique.

Rifki Furqan

Sustainable Fisheries Coordinator

Rifki officially joined USAID SEA Project in January 2018. He has been working on sustainable fisheries and marine conservation issue since he graduated from Sekolah Tinggi Perikanan Jakarta in 2008. He has background in aquatic resources management and graduated from double degree Water and Coastal Management master program from Oldenburg University (Germany) and Groningen University (the Netherlands) in 2012. Before joining USAID SEA Project, Rifki worked with Rare Indonesia as one of the Fish Forever Program Managers. His main role was ensuring work plan implementation in three campaign sites (Teluk Kolono, KKPD Kaimana and TWP Gili Matra). He is a licensed diver and certified in project management. As part of the Sustainable Fisheries team, his work is to ensure SEA Project contributes to sustainability of fisheries resources, one of them is the anchovy fish. That small-size fish that give multiple benefits is his favorite marine creatures.

Irene Sahertian

Regional Fisheries Specialist

Irene H. Sahertian-Matakena joined USAID-SEA since 1 November 2017. Irene completed her bachelor's degree from Pattimura University in 1992 in Fisheries Department. She learned environmental management in both Tasmania University in Hobart for Masters degree, and continued to Flinders University in Adelaide for PhD. Irene has various experience in empowering coastal community in Maluku through various aspects including  Fisheries, Marine Ecology, Marine Conservation, Community Empowerment, waste management, environmental education and gender. She has experience in liaison with broad relevant government department to support the local community welfare improvement. She has experience working with Indonesian government and with various level of agencies including the Environmental Study Center of Pattimura University, local NGO, Oxfam Australia and Environment Project funded by Uni Europe as researcher on turtle and dugong conservations. Irene is really keen to combat the danger of solid waste for marine life survival.

Christiana Yuni Kusmiati

Governance Advisor

Christiana Yuni Kusmiati has more than 15 years experiences as a policy and institutional strengthening specialist, policy researcher, academician and director of public policy center studies. She focuses her works on institutional, policy, and bureaucracy reform issues at national, and local government level in Indonesian decentralization system context, before and during the implementation of Law No. 23/2014 on Local Government. She has started her works on sustainable marine and fisheries management in Indonesia since 2012.

Wen Wen

Marine Spatial Planning Technical Lead

Wen Wen received his bachelor degree in Geography from University of Indonesia in 2004 and master degree in IT for Natural Resource Management from University of Agriculture Bogor in 2008. After completion of his degree, he was appointed as GIS & Data Coordinator in Marine Program of The Nature Conservancy based in Bali and since 2012 he was then promoted as Associate of Marine Spatial Planner for Lesser Sunda Ecoregion Marine Project. In 2014, started to work as Marine Spatial Analyst consultant for Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries and some projects with International NGO and private company. Started in March until September 2016, he was appointed as Senior Spatial Planner for Participatory Mapping Project (Pmap2) with Land Equity International – Australian Company. He joined USAID SEA Project as GIS/Spatial Planning Specialist in January 2016 and was promoted as Marine Spatial Planning Technical Lead a year later. His interests are focused on marine spatial planning, marine protected areas and integrated coastal management using decision support system tool, remote sensing and geographic information system.

Ely Andrianita

Communication & Outreach Technical Lead

Ely Andrianita is a University of Indonesia undergraduate in Communications subject. As a team lead for communications and behavior change intervention, Ely is looking after communications, doing advocacy, outreaching and campaign concerting with 13 implementing partners. Under her lead, Ely is driving how the project can give real impact by reducing human destructive activities at sea, give respect to marine as protected zones for fishing and its widely known biodiversity. Ely names dolphin almost right away when asked about sea animals and names penguin afterward. For her, these two are equally intelligent and cute.  

Asril Djunaidi

Regional Technical Director

Asril Djunaidi is a Marine and Coastal Water Management focus on Marine Protected Areas management with over 12 years field experience.  He began his carrier in conservation as a MPA leader in Kaimana MPA, West Papua and continue as Capacity Building Manager for MPA management at Conservation International Indonesia until November 2016. In 2004 he got his Master degree in Leisure, Tourism and Environment from Wageningen University.  During his role as capacity building manager, he has been engaged with MMAF at National level to developed standard competency in managing MPA in Indonesia. Collaborating with NOAA, Asril developed series of training modules and  curriculum for managing MPA such as MPA-101, Community Engagement, Facilitation Technique, Sustainable Tourism in MPA, Sustainable Fisheries in MPA, Law Enforcement and How to design your management plan of MPA. Since December 2017 he joined USAID-SEA Project as Regional Technical Director and based in Ambon.

Christovel Rotinsulu

West Papua Program Coordinator

Chris Rotinsulu is a Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Management professional with over 20 years field experience involving in coastal resources management, marine conservation and ecosystem-based management.  He began his professional carrier as a community organizer in 1997 for the Coastal Resources Management Project (CRMP), a USAID funded project in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. In 2004 he got his master’s degree in management of marine biodiversity from Genova University, Italy. Chris has management expertise in facilitating multi-stakeholder support in coastal and marine Ecosystem-based management, marine protected areas management, and integrated coastal zone management. Prior to joining USAID SEA in 2016, he served as the in-country coordinator for NOAA partnership with USAID Indonesia and Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.

Rolan Sihombing

Regional Program Coordinator

Rolan Sihombing is based at USAID SEA Project Ambon office. He supports the coordination of SEA project implementation in Maluku and in the region by working closely with North Maluku and West Papua Coordinators to ensure the harmonization of all SEA project activities. Whilst regularly draft project reports and support Regional M&E Specialist in the process of monitoring and evaluation of SEA Project, he also assists with other tasks as required pertaining to logistical arrangement for workshops, coordination with government offices, and planning activities. His favorite sea animal is Napolean Wrasse, because it is one of the largest reef fish found in the warm waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans. Their designs are unique to each individual, much like fingerprints, and as a protogynous hermaphrodite  it can change its sex from female to male.

Rosita Tariola

Project Coordinator in Ternate

Christina Tampubolon

Finance Manager

Christina Tampubolon  joined USAID SEA Project in June 2016 as Finance Manager. Her role is to support Project in Finance  to Develop and maintain systems for program expenditure monitoring and Ensure the timeliness of financial reporting and responsiveness to specific donor requests on financial and compliance matters. She had her Bachelor degree in Accounting  and Master degree from Trisakti University in Business Management. Christina has been working with Private Company since 2002 as Senior Accountant and started working as Finance and Administration Manager  with  INGOs, USAID  and also with G to G Project  since 2005 in the area of  Health, Agriculture, Basic Education and Environment. Before joining USAID SEA Project, Christina has dedicated her experience mostly in Finance and Administration  in several USAID Projects such as PCHC and IMACS. She also has some experiences in finance sector with INGOs such as Save the Children and Plan International and also involved in G to G project such as BAPPENAS with MCC and MCA .  

Puspa Wardani

HR and Administrative Manager

Puspa Kusuma Wardani officially joined USAID SEA Project in July 2017. Her role is to support the project to have HR and administration management system that is in line with the SEA Project policies and procedures. Prior to joining SEA Project, Puspa has contributed her experience and knowledge in UNODC and some foreign projects funded by World Bank, ADB and DFAT in the area of human resources, administration, procurement and finance. Puspa has a degree in Business Administration, English Literature and certification of human resource. Apart from spending her spare time with her cute adorable two children and a lovely husband, she also loves travelling, watching movies and concerts as well as hunting culinary. When it comes to a sea animal, Puspa will quickly name clown fish as she finds it cute, funny and smart.

Juliana Lawalata

Regional Administrative Manager

Julia joined USAID SEA Project in August 2016 based in Ambon Regional Office. She started working in Admin and finance since 1977 when she lived in the Netherlands. After returning to Indonesia in 1980 she has been working in many projects in Maluku, Jakarta, Bogor, and Bali such as BirdlIfe International IP (Maluku FO & Bogor), UNFPA, AcF, UNDP,etc. She hopes that USAID SEA Project will benefit not only the Marine Resources but also the fishermen, and will give them the knowledge and skills they need in order for them to conserve and maintain the marine resources, and use it in a sustainable manner, here in the waters of Maluku, North Maluku and Papua for our children and their children.

Edward Hutabarat

Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Edward Hutabarat officially joined the USAID SEA Project in August 2017 as Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist. Edward has been working with INGOs and G to G Project since mid-1996. He has been working with DFAT and USAID since 2007 in the area of  Health, Agriculture, Basic Education and Higher Education. Before joining USAID SEA Project, Edward has dedicated his experience in Monitoring & Evaluation in USAID AMARTA Project and Save the Children for SBM Project in Maluku and North Maluku. His role was to support the stakeholders to develop their M&E System, Planning and the development of their program. His speciality is in project management particularly in Planning, Program Development and Monitoring Evaluation.

Nour Muhamad

Capacity Building Specialist

Muhamad Nour officially joined USAID SEA Project in December 2017. Muhamad Nour has over 19 years working experience in development projects. He has been working on the projects of labor rights protection, counter trafficking, labor migration, domestic workers, and emergency aid and has worked previously with CARE International, UNICEF, Tifa Foundation, and ILO Jakarta. He is responsible for project’s capacity building activities, working both with government and NGO partners. Nour graduated from Mulawarman University Samarinda and hold master degree in business administration from Padjadjaran University Bandung. Nour loves traveling and fishing.

Ii Rosna Tarmidji

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Ii Rosna joined USAID SEA Project in September 2016 as a Regional M&E Specialist based in Ambon office. She started her career as an assistant researcher and researcher for a local NGO in climate change issues, especially related with adaptation to climate change. She then moved to Sorong, West Papua to join Conservation International Indonesia as a Marine Tourism Development Specialist. She assisted the Raja Ampat Tourism Office (as well as Kaimana Tourism Office) in introducing the tourism entrance fee system. With the same organization, she later-on joined the Capacity Building Team, and has trained local communities and government officials all over Indonesian on marine conservation issues. She is a yogi, a diver and an avid traveler. When she has to choose one marine creature, she thought about the Epaulette shark, shark that ‘walks’ on its fin. A beautiful rare creature that glides between the colorful reef at shallow water. Endemic shark that can only be found in a very few places including in Indonesia, especially Raja Ampat, Kaimana and Ternate.

Santi Maulintania

Data Management Specialist

Santi Maulintania officially joined USAID SEA Project in January 2018. Santi has an Undergraduate and Master's Degree in Management. She has over 19 years of experience in Data Management, Information Systems and Information Technology. Prior to joining Tetra Tech SEA Project, Santi worked as a Data Manager at INA RESPOND (The Indonesia Research Partnership on Infectious Disease), Database Programmer at Australia’s Education Partnership with Indonesia: School System and Quality (SSQ) and at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Apart from that, Santi has experience working as an ICT Specialist at a USAID EMAS Project; Programmer Analyst at PFI3P (Poor Farmer Income Improvement Through Innovation Project); as well as at IAARD (Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development), an ADB project and ICT Officer at INDII (The Indonesia Infrastructure Initiative is an Australian Aid initiative managed by SMEC International Pty Ltd on behalf of the Australian Government).

Gena Lysistrata

Social Policy Specialist

Gena has 8 years professional experience in sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, social research, and project management. She is also experienced in working with multi-stakeholders entities such as international and local NGOs, companies, government, indigenous community, youth and women forum. Gena gained her master degree at The Australian National University majoring applied anthropology and participatory development. Initially, she got her bachelor degree at The University of Indonesia majoring social welfare.  

Afandy Djauhari

Contract and Financial Management Specialist

Afandy Djauhari  joined USAID SEA Project in July 2017. His role is to oversee the contracting mechanisms used by the USAID SEA Project for all its subcontractors that are contracted to assist in the implementation of the Project. Before joining USAID SEA, he was a technical specialist in finance and Accounting management for designing and conducting capacity building for Local NGOs  in Jakarta , Aceh , Medan, Sulawesi,  Kalimantan, Bali and Papua. He has more than years experience working with USAID-funded projects  such as SFCG ; USAID-SERASI and  USAID-Emitra. He also has experience as  Finance controller specialist to manage the MCAI–project in Sulawesi, Kupang and Lombok. He has Bachelor Degree in Accounting  at UPI YAI and took further advanced study in Accounting at ISPAS in Singapore and Master Degree for International Relation at LSPR London school.

Melva Aritonang

Communications and Outreach Specialist

Melva Aritonang joined USAID SEA Project in February 2019. Melva has more than 15 years working experience in International Development Organisations and Humanitarian Organisations, contributes to wide range of national and regional level of program in various issues from Education, Health, Child Protection, Human Right, Water and Sanitation, Economic Development to Environment in a variety of roles but extremely passionate on social development, communications, public relations and knowledge management. Her main professional objective is to help the organisation to increase, sustain and enhance its image and reputation by creating, developing, implementing and evaluating an integrated communications strategy. She named Eagle Ray as her favorite marine species because it has a unique shape, the snout is like an eagle's beak. This pelagic fish also has a wide distribution and cruising from Papua to Sumatra, makes it difficult to find at one point.

Erline Tasmania

Program Coordinator

Yuswandi

Information Technology Officer

Wandi has an undergraduate in IT with more than 12 years of work experience as IT staff at International NGO since Tsunami projects in Aceh. Prior to joining Tetra Tech SEA Project, Wandi worked as IT staff at Save the Children Aceh Program (AERA - Aceh Earthquake Relief Assistance Project), as Administrative/IT at USAID - Health Services Program (West Aceh & Aceh Jaya District Office), then back to Save the Children Aceh Program as IT staff. Then, he finally moved to Jakarta to work as Database Officer of Sponsorship Program at Save the Children International Indonesia Country Office Jakarta.

Ndaru Prasetiyo

Regional GIS Officer

Ndaru Prasetiyo, a Diponegoro University undergraduate in Urban and Regional Planning, joined USAID Sustainable Ecosystems Advanced (USAID SEA) Project in April 2017. Ndaru is part of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Team and responsible in managing the spatial data for SEA Project. Together with him team, Ndaru assists the MSP process in provinces and contribute to the development of MSP geoportal, an online system that provides relevant data and information on the MSP process across the region. He named Sea Snail as his favorite marine species because it is a protected species with unique shape and philosophy, Slow but Sure.

Andi Wardana

Finance Officer

Andi officially joined USAID SEA Project in October 2016 as Finance Officer. Andi has experience working in a number of local NGOs, INGOs, and multi donor funds since 2004. Before joining JUSAID SEA project, he worked in Finance unit of Law and Justice project and poverty reduction project of DFAT in Jakarta and also for Tsunami emergency response program in Aceh for some years with International Multi Donor Funds. Andi has extensive background working with non-profit institutions to build internal and external Finance systems and procedures and has demonstrated skills in handling full set of finance/accounting, ranging from preparing and analyzing financial report and grants management.

Adhis Dinastiar

Communication Officer

Graduated from Paramadina University majoring Media Studies in 2013, Adhis has worked on number of communication and outreach projects to address social issues in climate change, indigenous peoples, and literature in national and international level through multisector engagement and strong media relations. In 2014, she was joined with Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) to support the advocacy and social campaign for the Recognition and Protection of Indigenous People’s Rights. Upon finishing her work with AMAN, she joined Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF) which allowed her to strengthen her competencies in environmental communication. She is joining USAID SEA-Projects in 2018 to support promote the governance of fisheries, marine resources, and biological diversity in Indonesia. She likes to read, travel and experience new local dishes in her free time.

Cherie Mailoa

Regional Finance Officer

Cherie Mailoa joined USAID SEA Project in 2017 and based in Ambon Regional Office. She has been working in the area of Finance & Administration for more than 20 years. Before joining USAID SEA Project, Cherie worked for Maluku Spice Council – Ambon, MDPI project in Ambon, National Democratic Institute and UNICEF Ambon. She was the field manager counterpart for International Medical Corps Ambon in 2002 until 2003.

Emilia Damayanti

Procurement Officer

Sientje Manuhutu

Regional Administrative and Logistic Officer

Mochammad Topandi

Graphic Designer

Mochammad Topandi officially joined SEA Project in January 2018 as the Graphic Designer. Topan has more than 10 years of experience in graphic design and production, his last position at Pusat Kreatif Femina Group was as Senior Production Officer. He was graduated from Trisaksi University majoring in graphic design. In his spare time, he likes to do hiking, fishing, playing soccer and futsal with friends. He chooses akar bahar (Euplexaura Antiphates) as his favourite marine species. Many people know akar bahar as marine plant but it actually marine animal