Climate change is already impacting the lives and livelihoods of people living on the over 14,000 very small islands of Indonesia. With small populations and logistical challenges and cost of reaching them, they are losing out in supports to ensure they prepare for and can thrive in the climate emergency.
Join The Perpetual Ocean Foundation to help strengthen their intrinsic capacities to plan and achieve equitable measured progress towards the SDGs.
Yayasan Laut Lestari Indonesia, or The Perpetual Ocean Foundation is a network of development professionals, brought together by a shared sense of urgency to support small island communities to prepare for the impact of climate change and the ongoing ocean acidification.
The Perpetual Ocean Foundation is the Preferred Innovative Partner in building Small Islands Resilience and Sustainability through Youth-led Community Planning and Action
A lifelong innovator in communications from corporate affairs to communities, focusing on sustainable environment & oceans climate campaigns. She’s worked with French Embassy, Coca-Cola Amatil, IMO-UN, GoI, USAID, WWF & CI whilst an active member of Al Gore’s TCRP climate leaders in Indonesia & the UK
A career professional leading organisational development at National and Multinational Corporations. Since retiring he has taken this new role to lead the plan and delivery of the youth and women focused approach to make and measure progress against the Sustainable Development Goals
After 16 years of innovation in coastal and disaster management in Indonesia with USAID, World Bank and the Red Cross, Bill is back in Indonesia with 12 years of experience in designs and ideas from managing and consulting projects in Africa, The Pacific Islands, Middle East and Europe
Mercy is proficient in very small island resilience with a Doctorate from James Cook University; He lectures at the University of Manado and is the Secretary of the Red Cross for North Sulawesi while assisting YLLI with the proof-of-concept in Nanusa
Bringing interests on Geology, Irza has passion in information technology, which eventually, became the place to pursue his career with YLLI in Aceh post tsunami programme then and WWF-Indonesia. Developing websites, managing information systems and facilitating administrative work digitally is his current activity
Vina leads our communications team, bringing her experience from the London School of Public Relations and a career as editor, translator and project team lead in communications. Since 2010 Vina has concentrated on developing social media management with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology together with translating for Indonesia.go.id and infopublik.id
Graduated from the Faculty of Letters of Indonesia – University of Indonesia, Oni previously served as Head of Administration at Pustaka Kelana (Mobile Library for Children) and as YLLI member of administration and secretariat in Jakarta and Aceh (1994-2007). Her career continued at WWF-Indonesia Foundation as Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Officer (2007 – 2020)
Titia completed a bachelor’s degree in the Department of Anthropology, University of Indonesia. She is experienced in database creation and data processing in the post-tsunami YLLI Consortium Aceh-Nias Bangkit programme (2005 – 2007) for Data Entry of Fishing boat damages and losts, reporting on boat rehabilitation and Data Processing for Fishery Boat Census preparation with Min of Marine Affairs and Fisheries and FAO
Chair of The Board
Eva has extensive experience in administration and finance whilst a passionate on trekking outdoors and is still active with Kerabat Pecinta Alam. She was YLLI finance manager and currently, serves as Director of Finance at PT. Adhikarisma Pratama and previously served as an Assistant Manager at Drs. Hadi Sutanto & Price Waterhouse Partners
Assistant Chair of The Board
Siswoyo experiences in the program activities coordination, both in planning and implementation. He was program director of YLLI. After graduating from the University of Indonesia’s Department of Archeology, he and his college friends founded Etnodata of the Cultural Etnomitra Foundation
Board Member
Yando enjoys studying various fields of knowledge and participating in various training including Environmental Impact Analysis Training at the Center for Environmental and Human Resources Research at the University of Indonesia. He was YLLI R&D tenurial and “adat” researcher. He is involved in other activities as a writer in several scientific and general media
Board Member
The focus of his interest is on various coastal traditions and cultures, especially indigenous people who preserve their ancestral culture, which he then formats in photos and written documentation for publication in the media. He was YLLI traffic manager, and with his college friends at University Indonesia together founded Etnodata of the Cultural Etnomitra Foundation
Head of Internal Audit Team
Sri Unggul graduated from the University of Indonesia in the field of Archeology, who later had a career as a journalist and traveled across the archipelago for his work with various media outlets. He was YLLI R&D member and published cultural books, and as curator organised arts exhibitions and festivals
Internal Auditor
After graduating from the Faculty of Economics, University of Trisakti, majoring in Accounting and continued his studies in Taxation at Brevet A and B levels. He worked as an Auditor in several companies, both government and private agencies
If you have a technical skill that you would like to share with one of our youth leaders, supporting them to make a difference in their community, contact us through form below
If you would like to give time to expand YLLI network, or gather information for the programme or host a remote event for YLLI, contact us through form below
The Perpetual Ocean Foundations strategic response to climate change has a focus on the following themes, in the context of an overall framework of gender equality, youth empowerment, resilience and social justice:
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Long-term sustainable change takes time and commitment. If you share the passion for local innovation and youth empowerment, and think small islands deserve an equitable chance to develop sustainably, join us as a programme patron. Individuals or companies willing to commit to a regular annual donation exceeding $6,000 can become a program patron, receive regular updates on our activities and be acknowledged as one of our patrons on newsletters, web-page and event publicity. For further information, please contact us
We have an open book policy for supporters- you can see exactly where your money goes. Each year we will look to fund an annual plan. The 2023 plan is costed at just over $800,000. If you want to support our work by adopting one of our programme, funding youth empowerment, Womens Resilience in Development, Sustainable Resources Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, Green and Blue Sustainable business development, or alternative energy contact us and we can sit down and discuss how best to match our program with your interest
One of our key beliefs is that young men and women can change their world. We do this through investing in their good ideas. We have two funds, the Green and Blue Innovation fund, that provides start-up loans for micro and small businesses and grants for social action. The second is the Women’s empowerment fund, which resources womens leadership initiatives. With a donation of IDR 1 billion, you can join the selection panel of either fund and decide which project your money will support. At least 900 million of your donation will go directly to a project on the islands. The balance will pay for the support of these programmes in Talaud. If you want to join the club, contact us
For smaller pockets, a donation of IDR 1 million will put IDR 900,000 of your money into the Green and Blue Innovation or the Womens Empowerment funds with the balance used to support of these programmes in Talaud. If you want to know more, contact us
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Preserving our Coasts and Oceans for a Sustainable Future
Yayasan Laut Lestari Indonesia is registered with the Indonesian Government under the Director General for General Laws of Administration (AHU Kemenkumham No. 0020689.AH.01.04 of 2022 with Notification No. 79 Additional National record No. 003245, printed on the 4th October 2022
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