2021 Y20 SUMMIT MILAN, ITALY
Indonesia’s official delegates to the 2021 Y20 Summit Milan, Italy
Hello Indonesian youths across the world! After an intense interview weekend and series of long hours deliberation, the Indonesian Youth Diplomacy team is excited to announce Indonesia's official delegates to the 2021 Y20 Summit in Milan, Italy.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who had shown genuine interest and participated in this year's recruitment process. We thoroughly enjoyed getting to know you and hope that you will stay engaged with us by participating in our programs and applying to become next year's Indonesian delegates to our own-hosted 2022 Y20 Summit in Indonesia.
Congratulations to the selected delegates!
Puteri A. Komarudin is an Indonesian young politician and a Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR RI) from the Golkar Party, one of the largest political parties in Indonesia. Her calling to serve the people has prompted her to run in the 2019 legislative elections and won the trust of 70,164 voters. Representing the 7th electoral district of West Java Province namely the Regencies of Bekasi, Karawang, and Purwakarta, Puteri fights for the issue of financial inclusion and to eradicate illegal moneylenders that have taken so many victims in her districts.
Her bachelor’s degree from the University of Melbourne has provided her with strong global economic and financial knowledge, which was further honed through her three-year working experience at the Financial Services Authority (OJK) as a Junior Foreign Bank Supervisor. She, therefore, is mandated to serve in House Commission XI that focuses on banking, finance, and national development planning areas.
Beyond that, as a representative of young people and women, social inclusion has always been her concern and will continue to strive. It encouraged her to establish a youth caucus for the Indonesian parliament (KPPI) in her first days in office and trusted her to serve as the Chairman. She commits that in every opportunity and responsibility, she will voice criticism and solutions that are gender-sensitive and involve all groups in society, especially youth, to ensure that there will be no one left behind.
Caroline “Dea'' Tasirin is an adjunct lecturer at Sam Ratulangi University, Manado. She is also the co-founder and field coordinator of SULUT Semangat, an organization that aims to bring nature closer to North Sulawesi youth through interactive teaching materials and engaging capacity building opportunities. She earned a Master of Forest Science from Yale School of the Environment with a full scholarship from CIFOR-USAID, graduating as one of the Commencement Speakers and Student Marshals of YSE Class of 2019.
Caroline has over 10 years of experience in conservation, community engagement, and environmental education. Being a field person at heart, Caroline feels most at home exploring the forests of her homeland; she reciprocates that enjoyment by working with communities living around these forests. With Selamatkan Yaki, Caroline has delivered environmental talks to over 9,000 people across North Sulawesi and organized forums and discussions with multiple governmental, law enforcement, and community stakeholders. She is currently focused on environmental education through teaching, SULUT Semangat, and ongoing volunteering work with Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Center and Suara Pulau Foundation.
In 2016, Caroline represented Indonesia as an Environmental Issues Academic Fellow in Young South East Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI). In 2020, she was awarded a YSEALI Seeds for the Future Grant to kick off SULUT Semangat. Caroline is honored to have been selected as part of Indonesia’s 2021 Y20 Summit Delegation, and she is eager to give back to her communities through Indonesian Youth Diplomacy (IYD).
Angelo Wijaya (23) graduated from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations (Cum Laude). As an Erasmus Scholar, he was given the opportunity to study at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom with a full scholarship as an exchange student.
Upon graduation, he joined The World Bank as a consultant for the Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy (ENB) Global Practice’s (GP) operations in Indonesia. He currently works as a consultant at the World Bank Group, where he supports International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Corporate Governance (CG) projects in five different countries in East Asia & Pacific (EAP) region.
He is interested in issues surrounding youth empowerment, and had been volunteering as a member of UNFPA Youth Advisory Panel 2019-2020 where he advocated meaningful youth participation in policy-making process in the country. In 2020, Angelo was selected as one of the 40 UNESCO-APCEIU Young Leaders for Global Citizenship Education out of the pool of 10,000 nominees. As a student, Angelo was awarded as the Top 1 Most Outstanding Student at Universitas Gadjah Mada (2018), and was awarded as the Top 3 Most Outstanding Student in Indonesia by the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education (2018). He was also one of the Top 3 Indonesian Young Thought Leaders on Environment by the World Resources Institute (2019).
Angelo finds pleasure in reading books in coffeeshops, exploring new places, and traveling.
We hope you will continue to express interest and support for our activities and we look forward to collaborating and interacting with you in all our future endeavors. Let us also assist our delegates as they get ready to present us all at Y20 Milan, Italy!
