Agenda

Bhredipta is a practicing lawyer in Indonesia focusing on intellectual property, technology, media, and telecommunications. He is a master of laws graduate from University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe from International Association of Privacy Professionals. During his professional experience he has provided wide-range legal assistance for  local and foreign companies on their compliance to various regulatory provisions on privacy, personal data, technology and intellectual property. He is the coordinator of the Organizing Committee of Indonesia Youth Internet Governance Forum where he delivers various public engagements to increase Indonesian youth's involvement in the internet governance ecosystem. In addition to that, he is also a member of Multistakeholder Advisory Group of Indonesia Internet Governance Forum, part of Creative Commons Indonesia, an ISOC Youth@IGF Fellow in 2017, alumni of Citizen Clinic, a public interest cybersecurity clinic of School of Information of UC Berkeley, and former student researcher at Human Rights Center of UC Berkeley.  He is currently consulting a California-based start up focusing on privacy solutions.  

Mr Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan currently serves as Director General of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Applications, Ministry of Communication and Information. He has more than 20 years’ experience leading various different businesses in the telecommunications and informatics sectors. He is also active in a number of national and international organisations related to Internet governance and uses.

Mr Pangerapan is currently focusing on fostering digital transformation in three sectors – society, business, and government – through an ICT development program which is being conducted with various stakeholders. Creating a conducive climate for the development of a digital national economy whilst increasing and encouraging investment is the key aim. Mr Pangerapan believes that technology is merely an enabler, and the mindset for transformation is critical.

Mr Pangerapan has previously held positions as:
1. Director General of Informatics Application, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, 2014 – present
2. Deputy Chair of the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Body, 2018 – present
3. Head of Delegation, ASEAN Telecommunications and IT Ministers Meeting (TELMIN), 2018 – 2019
4. Chairman, ASEAN Telecommunications and Information Technology Senior Officials Meeting (TELSOM), 2018 – 2019
5. Trustees, ID IGF Indonesia Internet Governance Forum (ID IGF), 2017 – present

Mr Pangerapan obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Business Administration (major), Information Management (minor) from California State University, Fresno, USA in 1990-1994.

Sonny Zulhuda obtained his LLB (Honours), MCL and Ph.D from the IIUM. For his doctoral thesis which was completed in 2009, he wrote on the legal framework of information security in Malaysia, encompassing the issues of information governance, identity theft, cyber crimes, cyber terrorisms as well as the critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP). Besides, Dr. Sonny is trained on the Quality Management System (QMS) based on the ISO 9001:2008 and MS 1900:2014; Information Security Management System based on ISO/IEC 27001, CISSP review, as well as a certified trainer on Digital Etiquet te and Appropriate Use of Technology, endorsed by the Ministry of Education. He is a Web-science Summer Doctoral Scholarship recipient in 2008 from the Oxford Internet Institute, the University of Oxford, UK. In the span of two years, between 2011 through 2013, Sonny was awarded two-time ICANN Fellowships by the multinational organisation responsible for the Internet domain names management, i.e. the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He is a member of the International Association for Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and is an Academic Advocate at the ISACA Chapter Malaysia, a national body for information security, audit and assurance professionals. Dr. Sonny helped the Government of the Republic of Indonesia in preparing academic draft of Personal Data Protection Bill as well as draft Ministerial Regulations on wireless security and Internet content. In Malaysia, he was instrumental to the legal team who drafted the Malaysiaa??s National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP) back in 2006. He also helped the Malaysiaa??s Personal Data Protection Department on the PDP law training programme. He had further developed and delivered training modules on the awareness, compliance and rolling-out of the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 for both public and private sectors in Malaysia across various industries. Dr. Sonny was a cyber law lecturer at Multimedia University (2006-2010) before he joined the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, IIUM as an Assistant Professor in July 2010. He occasionally blogs at http://sonnyzulhuda.com.

Hermann Josis Mokalu, or usually known as Yosi, is a Chairman of Siberkreasi - an Indonesian National Movement for Digital Literacy. Yosi graduated as from Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Universitas Parahyangan in 1997 and finished his Master degree on Strategic Management from PPM School of Management in 2011. Before starting his carrier as a Chairman of Siberkreasi, Yosi spent 25 years as a musician and becomes one member of “Project Pop” up till now. He is also Creative Director of Cameo Project, a group of Indonesian YouTubers established in 2012, which aims not only to entertain but also to inspire and spread positive influences to the audiences. Yosi is also a founder of “Nakal” Nasionalisme Radikal or National Radicalism, a movement for future generations which aims on strengthen Pancasila (Indonesia's ideologies) and Indonesia's culture as a value that will always be held by youths.

Dr. Fiona Suwana is a researcher and tutor at the University of South Australia and a research associate at Flinders University. She has become a course designer and co-course leader for a short course program of “Democratic Resilience - Digital and Media Literacy” at Australia Awards Indonesia and Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy of Digital Media at Digital Media Research Centre, School of Communication - Creative Industries Faculty, QUT – Australia. She also received a Master of Science in Communication Science from the University of Indonesia and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) of Communication Studies (Mass Communication) from the London School of Public Relations, Jakarta. Her research focuses on digital activism, digital media, digital media literacy, data activism, social and political movement, democracy, and young people specifically for civic engagement and political participation that can support democratic practices. Her work has been published in Information, Communication and Society, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Kasetsart Journal of Social Science, and Research Report (a commissioned independent study into digital news in Australia for Facebook and accompanied their submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Digital Platforms Inquiry), The Conversation, The Jakarta Post, and several book chapters.

Eunice Huang is Trade Policy Manager at Google where she leads on Google's APAC digital trade policy. Prior to her current role, she spent over a decade in the Singapore Government's Administrative Service and worked on a diverse range of issues including foreign policy, energy policy, trade policy and economic development. She also served two stints at Singapore Embassy in Jakarta, as political secretary with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Vice President with the Economic Development Board