News & Events

In celebration of Indonesia’s 2026 Youth Pledge Day, Yayasan BaKTI, with support from the INSPIRASI Programme, hosted an INSPIRASI BaKTI discussion featuring three INSPIRASI alumni as speakers: Victor (2020/21 cohort), Rina (2019 cohort), and Nayah (2020/21 cohort).

Wilda Yanti Salam (Memodapur), and Muhammad Ikram ( Nusantara Education Research), both INSPIRASI alumni from the 2024 cohort, recently presented their collaborative abstract at the MoFREC Research Symposium 2026, held on 26 October at Monash University Indonesia, Jakarta.

Sorabut Melanesia (Melan), INSPIRASI alum 2020, recently represented Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific region at the Rainforest Conference held in Berlin, Germany, on 20–22 October 2025. The international gathering, initiated by Misereor, Westpapua-Netzwerk, and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), brought together participants from the world’s three major rainforest regions, the Amazon Basin (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia), the Congo Basin (Democratic Republic of Congo), and Asia (including Thailand, Kalimantan, and Papua).

INSPIRASI 2020 alum Nikolas Imbiri played a key role in organizing the First Papua Indigenous Youth Conference (K1-PAP 2025), held on 7–9 August in Sentani. The event brought together over 218 youth delegates from seven customary regions across Papua to discuss critical issues of human rights, environment, education, and the local economy.

A group of high schools in coastal Lombok is proving that change can start in the classroom and ripple out to the ocean. Through the School of Earth 2.0: Ocean Changemakers Movement, teachers and students are taking waste education into their own hands, transforming habits and protecting their coasts.