TEAM YOUTH INTERFAITH COMMUNITY

Co Founder – President 
I Gede Pandu Wirawan

Pandu is a National University alumnus in international relations. He graduated with the predicate cumlaude. He is one of recipients of U.S. Department of State’s scholarship, the Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) that brought 20 Indonesian future leaders to learn religious pluralism and democracy in USA. He puts his dedication and passion into activities related to interfaith, religious diversity and tolerance through his service in many youth empowerment activities. One of his dreams is to create peace and better understanding in Indonesia through interfaith dialogue therefore, he and his friends initiated a movement called “Youth Interfaith Community (YIC)”which aims to create and encourage youth in Indonesia to be more aware of the issues such as diversity, especially in Religious diversity and tolerance. He is also one of founders Cinta Indonesia (Community for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue). He is one of 150 youths from around the world attended Youth Event in Global Forum UNAOC in Vienna Austria, Speaker in Youth Forum Community of Democracies in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia and one of 100 youths from around the world attended UNAOC-EF Summer School 2013 in New York, USA. 

Vice President
Robinson Sinurat

A professional youth who is always eager to learn and highly motivated, Robinson is working as Individual Consultant of Field Facilitator for the Ministry of Public Works of the Republic of Indonesia and also the Director of Operations for the Community for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue (CINTA) Indonesia. He was working as the Program Coordinator of Youth and Community Development for one of international NGOs in Indonesia. He has a dream that all people in the world can someday live in harmony as sisters and brothers, and all the differences are seen as the world's wealth, rather than a reason to hate each other. He is committed to bringing peace to the world. He encourages young people to promote peace by teaching, training, and doing something in Indonesia. Robinson has been an active person in some organizations since he was in Junior High School and he is actively involved in some voluntary events and social activities. He was the vice Language Ambassador of South Sumatera Province in 2012. He also represented Sriwijaya University in some national and International events when he was an undergraduate student. Recently, he was representative of Indonesia for the Young Southeast Asian Leader Initiative (YSEALI) United for Peace in the Philippines. He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Sriwijaya University, where he was awarded the Most Outstanding Student of Faculty of Math and Natural Sciences Student Award by the Dean in 2013.

Co-Founder and Secretary
Agus Burniat

Agus is a fresh graduate from Sriwijaya University majoring in Sociology. Studying vigorously after being enrolled in August 2009, he has been recognized as the most outstanding student in Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and won the 3rd place in The Most Outstanding Student Sriwijaya University Competition in May 2012. Beside his academic performance, he actively involved in some international youth programs namely Asia Pacific Forum 2011 in Thailand, 12th International Youth Day in Philippines (2011), The 3rd UNESCO International Youth Peace Ambassador in Malaysia and Youth Event & 6th UNAOC Global Forum in Bali (2014). As a part of his international exposure, he was awarded scholarship by U.S Department of State to study abroad at Temple University under SUSI (Study of the U.S Institute) program, which brought 20 Indonesia Student Leaders to learn religious pluralism and democracy in America. Upon the completion of the program, Agus and his fellows actively promote peace and tolerance in Indonesia by having initiative a youth-led community –Youth Interfaith Community (YIC) and CINTAindonesia (Comunity for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue in Indonesia) –focusing on efforts to empower and build the capacity of young people with respect to tolerance issues and interfaith-intercultural dialogue. Now, Agus is working at Ministry of Environment and Forestry Republict of Indonesia as Community Development Analysist for Society in the Area of Protected Forest Management Unit (KPHL) Banyuasin, Palembang.