Barakalla Robyn

Sustainable Ocean Initiative & Climate Senior Program Lead, WRI Indonesia

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Barakalla Robyn is the Sustainable Ocean Initiative & Climate Senior Program Lead of WRI Indonesia.

Bara supports the Sustainable Ocean Initiative, one of the flagship programs at WRI Indonesia to ensure the marine ecosystem is thriving equally with the rapid speed of development impacts. WRI Indonesia along with partners and stakeholders strive to achieve ocean protection while improving and securing the coastal community livelihood through such strategies as: (i) New Ocean Economy, (ii) Indonesia Marine Pollution Tracker, and (iii) Integration of Conservation and Restoration for Sustainable Coastal Management.

Bara also assists the climate team in implementing climate-related projects, including Tracking and Strengthening Climate Actions (TASCA), Nationally Determined Contribution Partnership (NDC-P), and Partnership to Strengthen Transparency for Co- Innovation (PaSTI).

Prior to joining WRI, Bara led the Blue Carbon Initiative at the Conservation International, working on blue carbon measurements on the ground in Kaimana Regency, West Papua together with CIFOR, Institute of Marine Research and Observation and also University of Papua. Together with partners, he has generated the blue carbon stock number throughout Kaimana Regency. Apart from blue carbon work, he has also been involved in several sustainable fisheries management projects, customary fisheries where he has learned about West Papua communities and tribes. He has been also involved in peat and mangrove proposal with IKI and BMUB, Integrated Sustainable Landscape Initiative with GCF, and Mangrove bin project for Bali mangrove ecosystem. Before his time with CI, he has also worked for Zoological Society of London, focusing on private sector engagement for Sumatran Tiger conservation in Berbak-Sembilang and at the same time serves as a POME waste management and stakeholder engagement for Rainforest Alliance as their consultant.

He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering Management from University of Technology Sydney and a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Geography & Environment from Gadjah Mada University. In his spare time, he likes to go out to the basketball court, play some ball game or even watch some NBA games with his kids.

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