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  • ImageMs. Nani Zulminarni (Indonesia) a women community organiser trainer & facilitator based in Jakarta, Indonesia; have years of managerial experience as the executive director of PPSW, a grassroots women support organization in Jakarta; specialist for designing and facilitating workshop on community organizing, gender issues, community development projects, facilitating skills, setting up micro enterprise & sociso-economic projects with grassroots women & conducting evaluation of grassroots groups & NGOs.


  • ImageMr. Roem Topatimasang (Indonesia) Specialist for designing and facilitating training/workshop on community organizing, policy advocacy, facilitating skills, producing popular media communication, and conducting evaluation. Have worked closely with Tribal communities and grassroots organizations in Maluku, West Papua (Irian Jaya) and East Jawa. Currently with INSISTS (YogJakarta), a research and skills support for grassroots based organisations in Central & Eastern Indonesia.



  • ImageMr Nus Ukru (Indonesia) has been a community organizer trainer in the Moluccas region of Indonesia for the past 15 years. He has been a consultant to many local community based indigenous people’s organization with regards to community organizing, community based resource management and also coordinator of the emergency operations in the Maluku conflict since 1999. He has also served in several national level indigenous people’s networks and coalition in Indonesia.



  • ImageMr Dony Hendro Cahyono (Indonesia) Community Organiser trainer, core founding member of INVOVLEMENT, a training institute for young organizers in Indonesia, Legal advisor to Labour issues, and qualified Human Rights advocate in Indonesia. He is currently the Director of INSISTS, (Institute for Social Transformation in Indonesia). He is also an adviser of READ (Research, Education and Documentation) in Yogjakarta.



  • Image Ms Fitri Andyaswuri (Indonesia) is an experienced youth and children organizer and trainer and presently heads the PERDIKAN Social Transformation School for Women in Yogjakarta. She is also the Programme Manager for INSISTS, a research, training and information organisation. She was the founder and Board Member of “Cabe Rawit Community”, a community-based organization working with children. Fitri is currently a member of the Yogyakarta Cultural Academi, a collective of young writers & cultural workers working  for social transformation trough culture.


  • Image Mr Suarnatha I Made (Indonesia) Director and founder of the Wisnu Foundation, a Bali-based NGO facilitating several Indigenous communities focusing on Community Organising & community resources management. He specialises in establishing strategies and set up community based economic enterprises using community organising frame and perspectives. Currently serving as SEAPCP committee member representing Indonesia.



  • ImageMs. Anna Har (Malaysia) is the Creative Director of commercial Production house and currently produces short documentaries on a range of social issues. She is also one of the Board of Directors of Pusat KOMAS. (Community Communications Center of Malaysia). She specializes in developing community based Audio visual units & support services for grassroots. Posses a Masters in Visual Anthropology attained in UK, has produced many documentaries about Malaysian social issues as well as Southeast Asian issues.



  • ImageMr Nelson Janggai (Sarawak, Malaysia) Experienced community organizer of Dayak indigenous grouping in Sarawak Malaysia. Posseses skills in land mapping and training community organizers to strife for the protection and promotion of their native customary rights and ancestral lands. He is also currently the tribal chief of his community and ad-hoc coordinator of the network of Indigenous Peoples’ community organizers in Sarawak.



  • Image Mr Jerald Joseph (Malaysia) Has extensive experience working with youth and students. He is also an experienced trainer with indigenous peoples' communities, and also posseses extensive experience in human rights campaigns and issues in Malaysia & in the SEA region. He is currently completing his Masters of Human Rights degree in Bangkok, Thailand. He is also serving his second term as an Executive Committee member of the Asia Pacific South Pacific Bureau for Adult Education (ASPBAE)



  • Image Mr Tan Jo Hann (Malaysia) Co-founder of the SEA Popular Communications Programme & the Malaysian Community Communications Center (KOMAS). Currently President PERMAS (Community Residents’ Association), an urban poor movement in Malaysia. He is very experienced & specialises in facilitating & training urban poor & indigenous peoples communities in the SEA region. Specialises in community organising skills & prespective, strategising & organsing campaigns, advocacy of issues, creative printed media, grassroots journalism, creative visual graphics & photography.He is also a writer and photojournalist.


  • Image Ms Tijah Chopil Malaysia) is from the “Orang Asli” an indigenous people's group in West Malaysia. She has been organizing “orang asli” communities for the past 12 years and has been a community organizer trainer focusing on cultural and resource management issues. She is also a very active member of the Malaysian Network of Indigenous Peoples (JOAS).




  • ImageMs. Tharini Cecil James Experience working with urban poor youth and women. Posseses skills in Community organizing. Currently Vice-President of PERMAS (Community Residents’ Association), an urban poor movement in Malaysia. Works very closely with the Long House Communities onHousing Rights. Presently working with Amnesty International as a administrator & programme assistant





  • Image Mr. John Nosenas (Philippines) is a professional video producer, editor and training facilitator in all forms of creative media including video, photography, sound slides, radio cassette productions and simple grassroots printing techniques. John is a senior SEAPCP trainer & was the Managing Director of JV Media Research Services and of Electronic Media Center of the Communications Foundation for Asia (CFA) in Manila. He is currently teaching part time at the Mass Communication Department of the St.Scholastica's College in Manila, Philippnes and full time Program Coordinator of the Center for Ecozoic Living & Learning, an environmental NGO.


  • ImageMs Carmela Millado (Philippines) Expertise and extensive experiences in community theatre, facilitator for workshops conducted in SEA countries, including migrant communities in the USA. She was very active in the Philippine Educational Theatre Association (PETA) and has worked as the Popular Education Coordinator of OXFAM-HK based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is also one of the founding members of the SEAPCP 10 years ago. Carmela was also an active member of the progressive group called PATATAG in the Philippines.


  • Image Mr Toolawat Panichareon (Toon) (Thailand) Experienced in conducting evaluation and adult education projects with grassroots communities especially the indigenous peoples, farmers and also NGOs. He has experiences and skills in training rural communities to conduct boundary mapping and Landscape modeling.





  • Image Mr. Pornsak Sukongkaratanakul (Lek) (Thailand) is currently the Director of Roong Oun Group in Chiangrai Thailand. He specializes in Video documentary production and radio programmes especially working with children and farm communities.







  • ImageMr. Amarin Plengrusme (Aod) (Thailand) is currently the Programme Director of the Community Theatre project based in Chiangmai Thailand. He specializes in community theatre with children and training of youth and students in using the theatre as a medium to raise awareness about social issues especially on child trafficking and HIV/AIDS




  • ImageMr. Pham Thanh Van (Vietnam) extensive experience in organizing, training and developing peer educators for HIV/AIDS awareness and education. Have worked with sex workers, drug users, street children. He is also active in the region in the HIV/AIDS campaign and has been invited by the Vietnamese government and regional bodies to conduct workshops, seminars, and consultations.




  • ImageMr Pham Truong Son (Vietnam) is a organizer/trainer working with youth, students and vulnerable persons specilaising in the subject of HIV/AIDS issues. He was the Director of the “Condom Café” project in Ho Chi Minh City and is currently a coordinator of peer education program of the Vietnam HIV/AIDS/STI Community Clinics Network project (HCCN).
 



  • Image Mr Chaay Wathna (Cambodia) has been the programme Coordinator and Community organizer trainer in the Urban Poor Women Development (UPWD) in Phnom Penh City. He has extensive experience organizing and training urban poor women develop their communities in terms of establishment community based micro enterprise, infrastructure projects and women health issues.




  • Image Aung Myo Min (Burma) is the Director & founder of the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB). He was the Director of the Human Rights Documentation Unit of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma. He is currently the country consultant of the Amnesty International & Southeast Asia Regional Convenor of Child Rights. His specialises in human rights education for women, children, migrant workers, & sexual minority groups in Burma. He has won several human rights awards including the Celebration of Courage & the Fellippa de Souza award by the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission in 2002 & 1999 respectively. He has also published numerous works (Burmeses & English) on human rights education & the situation of human rights in Burma.