Pemimpin Proyek,
Proyek SRIREP, Lembaga Penelitian untuk Kemanusiaan dan Alam (RIHN)

Professor,
Universitas Ehime,
Japan

Profesor Masayuki Sakakibara adalah seorang ilmuwan kebumian dengan latar belakang multidisiplin dalam Geologi, Petrologi, Astrobiologi, Geokimia, Geologi Medis, Geoengineering,  dan Remediasi Teknik, dll, saat ini bekerja pada Fakultas Inovasi Regional Kolaboratif dan Pasca Sarjana Sains dan Teknik, Universitas Ehime di Prefektur Ehime.

Minatnya yang kuat terhadap pencemaran lingkungan membawanya kepada kerja lapangan secara intensif dan kegiatan untuk mengurangi polusi merkuri serta masalah kemiskinan di daerah pertambangan emas artisanal dan skala kecil (PESK) di Indonesia selama lebih dari delapan tahun, pekerjaan yang dilakukan bersama mahasiswa, ilmuwan, peneliti, dan berbagai pemangku kepentingan dari Indonesia, negara-negara ASEAN, dan Jepang.

Profesor Sakakibara juga bertanggung jawab atas konferensi dan seminar internasional seperti Penelitian Transdisiplin tentang Masalah Lingkungan di Asia Tenggara (PTMLAT) dan Penelitian dan Praktik Transdisiplin untuk Mengurangi Masalah Lingkungan (PPTMML)., yang berfokus pada pendekatan transdisiplin untuk penelitian dan praktik, serta pengembangan berbagai inovasi regional untuk mengurangi pencemaran lingkungan di negara-negara ASEAN.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO),
Network Activities Group (NAG),
Myanmar

Soshisha, The Minamata Disease Museum,
Japan

Professor,
Bandung Institute of Technology,
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Indonesia​

Curator,
Gunma Museum of Natural History,
Japan

Dr. Sugawara obtained Ph.D. in Earth Science from Ehime University in 2012 for the specialties of field geology and biogeoscience. After arriving at the Gunma Museum of Natural History as a museum curator, he has been involved in the geopark study with a transdisciplinary approach. He is currently a committee member of the Japan Geopark Committee and also a member of SRIREP, taking responsibility for the geopark project in Gorontalo, Indonesia.

Dean and Researcher,
College of Health Sciences Makassar,
Indonesia​

Medical Doctor and Lecturer
Medical Department,
State University of Gorontalo,
Indonesia 

Researcher,
SRIREP Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN),
Japan

Satomi Kimijima, a researcher and one of the leading members of the SRIREP project at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN). She studied Master’s in Gender and Development Studies at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand as well as at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan respectively, and then she obtained Ph.D. for the specialties of Remote Sensing and GIS from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. Her interest in rural development and passion for the integration of the engineering approach into social science produces essential involvement in the objectives of SRIREP projects especially creating transdisciplinary boundary objects and transdisciplinary communities of practice in rural areas of Indonesia.

Researcher and Medical Doctor,
SRIREP Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN),
Japan

Win Thiri Kyaw attained a bachelor’s degree in medicine (M.B.B.S) from University of Medicine 2, Yangon, Myanmar in 2007. Then, she completed her 5 years journey of Ph.D. in Medical Science, Neurology, and Clinical Pharmacology from Ehime University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan in 2013. Since then, she had conducted her post-doc studies for clinical research and basic research related to neurological disease especially Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders at Neurology and Clinical Pharmacology department in Ehime Medical University until 2017. From 2019 until the present, she has been working at SRIREP Project, mainly for the environmental and health impact assessments of Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) activities in Mandalay Region, Myanmar. Her interest in the studies of neurological symptoms related to mercury intoxication and promoting the health of the ASGM community drive her to deal with key stakeholders, face challenges of reducing environmental problems, and promote health awareness in her country.

Research Associate,
SRIREP Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN),
Japan

Researcher,
Mining Research Center-BRIN,
Indonesia

Slamet Sumardi completed his master’s degree in Mining Engineering with a specialization in Mineral and Metallurgical Engineering in 2013. He has become the Manager of the Lampung-BRIN Advanced Materials Characterization Laboratory and is actively involved in primary and secondary mineral extraction research.

Researcher,
Research Center for Mining Technology,
National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN),
Indonesia

Dr. Eng. Widi Astuti is an Extractive Metallurgy Researcher at the Research Center for Mining Technology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) in Indonesia. Dr. Widi obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Gadjah Mada University (UGM), and then her Master’s degree in Mining Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Indonesia. Then, she acquired her Doctoral degree from the Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University in Japan. Her research interests include the extraction of valuable metals from primary resources (mining ores) and secondary resources (industrial waste, urban mining, electronic waste, etc.) utilizing hydrometallurgy and biometallurgy. Her doctoral research was on nickel and cobalt extraction from Indonesian nickel laterite ores using atmospheric leaching.

Researcher and Lecturer,
Research Center for Mining Technology,
National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN),
Sumatera Institute of Technology (ITERA),
Indonesia

Fika Rofiek Mufakhir graduated from Texmaco Institute of Technology in Subang, Indonesia, with a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy Engineering (S.T.) in 2005. In 2018, he completed his Master of Metallurgy and Mining Engineering (M.T.) from Indonesia’s  Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). In 2021, he continued his studies in a non-degree program at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norwegian. In 2008, he joined as a researcher specializing in mineral processing-purification technology, precious metal recovery, and heavy metal removal at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), which later became the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).

He is also a Lecturer at Sumatera Institute of Technology in Indonesia’s Mining Department. From 2020 until the present, he has worked with PT. Rimba Makmur Utama (PT. RMU) on the KATINGAN-MENTAYA Project, primarily to analyze the environmental and health impacts of Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) activities (as the assessments) in Central Borneo, Indonesia. One of his research interests is heavy metals and organic species associated with mercury and methyl mercury contamination, as well as health risk assessment and the promotion of clean technology in the ASGM community.