Tunggal Pawestri adalah pegiat isu keadilan gender, HAM dan kebebasan sipil.

Ia saat ini bekerja sebagai Direktur

Eksekutif Yayasan Humanis dan Inovasi Sosial, (Yayasan HIVOS) yang wilayah kerjanya meliputi Indonesia, Timor
Leste, Filipina dan Myanmar. Selain itu Tunggal Pawestri juga merupakan bagian dari tim penasehat untuk Keamanan
Perempuan di Facebook (Facebook’s Global Women Safety Expert Advisor). Tunggal kerap menulis op-ed/artikel
terkait isu gender, seksualitas, HAM dan kebebasan sipil di media massa. Ia juga pernah menjadi produser untuk film-
film pendek yang salah satunya lolos dalam kompetisi berpengaruh di Cannes Film Festival 2015.

Curriculum Vitae
Tunggal Pawestri

Education
 Paramadina Graduate School, Faculty of Communication, Political Communication 2018 (incomplete)
 Bachelor Degree, Christian University of Indonesia, Faculty of Literature, English Department, 2008
 IKIP Jakarta (Now Jakarta State University - UNJ), French Language Department 1995 – 1997 (non
degree)

Academic Short Course

International Law and SOGIE, School of Law, Leiden University, 2018

Training (among other)

Holistic Safety and Security, Protection International 2017
Project Management: Way of Working and Tools, Hivos and Vector K 2016
Theory of Change, 2014
Feminist Participatory Action Research, Manila, 2009

Professional Work
Executive Director
Humanist and Social Innovation Foundation (Yayasan Hivos)
March 2021 – at present

Program Development Manager/Coordinator of Women Empowerment and Sexual Rights and Diversity
HIVOS Southeast Asia
February 2015 – February 2021

Director Hivos SEA (interim)

November 2014 – January 2015

Senior Program Officer of Right and Citizenship HIVOS Southeast Asia

October 2012 – September 2014

Program Officer of Gender, Women and Development HIVOS Regional Office Southeast Asia
October 2009 – September 2012

Program Officer, International Republican Institute (IRI)

July 2006 – September 2009

Project Officer, Women and Electoral Division of CETRO (Center of Electoral Reform)
July 2005 – July 2006

Head of Political Division, Yayasan SEKAR,

October 2004 – June 2005

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Project Officer (Intern) at Institute of Politics and Governance, Quezon City, Philippines
March – June 2004

Coordinator of Executive Board, PEC (People’s Empowerment Consortium)

October 2002 – October 2004

Organizational Experience
 Young Women Leader International – member of the Association for Women’s Right in Development
(AWID), June 2005 – December 2007
 Core Member of “Young Progressive South East Asia Network”, YPSEA based in Manila, Philippines,
October 2004 – 2008
 People’s Democratic Party, East Jakarta Coordinator 1998-2000

Research and Consultancy Work (most recently)

 Consultant to assess the communication material on Stop Child Marriage Campaign, UNICEF 2017
 Research on Female Genital Cutting in 7 provinces and Research on Sexual Pleasure, Gender and
Sexuality Studies University Indonesia, 2015

Publication
Book
Nuraini, Tunggal Pawestri, et al: Melawan Ketidakadilan Gender – Fighting Against Gender Injustice, SEKAR-
FES 2005

Op-ed
Focus on women’s rights, gender, sexuality and human rights
 Frequent op-ed writer for a number of media outlets: The Jakarta Globe, The Jakarta Post, Koran
Tempo, Sinar Harapan, Rappler, BBC Online, Deutsche Welle

Film Production
Focus on gender, sexuality and human rights thematic films
Short Film
 As a PRODUCER “The Fox Exploits the Tiger’s Might” directed by Lucky Kuswandi, 2015, in competition
at Semaine de la Critique Cannes Film festival. Won the best film at Indonesia Film Festival 2015 and
Asia Pacific Queer Film Festival 2016
 As a PRODUCER “Following Diana” directed by Kamila Andini, 2015, in competition at Short Cuts Busan
International Film festival and Toronto International Film Festival 2016.
 As a PRODUCER “Love Story Not” directed by Yosep Anggi Noen, 2015, selected in Busan International
Film Festival 2016

Feature Film
 As a PRODUCER “Solo, Solitude” – Istirahatlah Kata-kata Wiji Thukul, directed by Yosep Anggi Noen,
2016, Won the best Film at Indonesia Film Festival 2016