Dr. Iding A. Haidir
Wildlife Conservationist
(Forum HarimauKita)
Title: Wildlife in a Changing Landscape: Science-Driven Conservation, Human Conflict & Habitat Futures in Indonesia
“Wildlife in a Changing Landscape” explores how science-based conservation can guide Indonesia’s response to habitat loss and human-wildlife conflict. Dr. Iding A. Haidir highlights the use of ecological data, community engagement, and adaptive management to secure resilient habitats where people and wildlife coexist sustainably.
Mr. Silverius Oscar Unggul
Activist on Community Forestry
(Yayasan IAR Indonesia)
Title: Empowering communities, transforming forests: local-led models for biodiversity, climate and livelihoods
“Empowering Communities, Transforming Forests” highlights how local stewardship can restore ecosystems and sustain livelihoods. Through community forestry and sustainable enterprises, Silverius Oscar Unggul shows that empowering people to manage their forests creates lasting benefits for biodiversity, climate, and rural prosperity.
Dr. Nicolas J. Deere
Conservation Biologist
(University of Kent, United Kingdom)
Title: Wildlife Under Pressure: Data-Driven Conservation in Human-Modified Tropical Landscapes
“Wildlife Under Pressure” examines how science and technology can guide conservation in human-altered tropical landscapes. Dr. Nicolas J. Deere demonstrates how data from camera traps, remote sensing, and ecological modelling helps identify critical habitats, manage fragmentation, and design smarter land-use strategies that balance biodiversity with development.
Ms. Louisa Castledine
Advocate for Marine Conservation
(Aliansi Masyarakat Cook's Island)
Title: Islands of Tomorrow: Indigenous Ocean Stewardship, Biodiversity Resilience & Blue Economy Futures
“Islands of Tomorrow” explores how Indigenous ocean stewardship drives biodiversity resilience and sustainable blue economies. Louisa Castledine highlights the Cook Islands’ model, where cultural values, community leadership, and marine protection unite to secure both ecological and economic futures.
Ms. Ristika Putri Istanti
Head of Secretariat
(Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari, LTKL)
Title: Jurisdictional Journeys: Multi-Stakeholder Governance, Biodiversity & Green Economy in Sustainable Districts
“Jurisdictional Journeys” showcases how Indonesia’s sustainable districts unite government, communities, and business to balance biodiversity and development. Through multi-stakeholder governance and green economy innovation, these districts protect vital ecosystems while advancing inclusive, nature-based prosperity.
TBA
Title: Wildlife Trade in Focus: Linking Evidence, Enforcement, and Policy Pathways in Indonesia’s Biodiversity Hotspots
“Wildlife Trade in Indonesia” highlights how research on legal and illegal trade can translate field evidence into actionable policy and enforcement pathways. The talk connects species-level impacts with landscape-scale governance priorities to reduce pressure on wildlife and support durable conservation outcomes.
TBA
Title: Institutions and Incentives for Nature Value: Building Biodiversity-Positive Growth in Indonesia
“Institutions and Incentives for Nature Value” highlights how governance quality, public private partnerships, and market design can shift biodiversity from a compliance cost into a driver of resilient economic growth. The talk connects evidence on institutions, supply chain resilience, and climate related productivity risks to practical strategies that enable credible investment, reduce corruption and leakage, and accelerate biodiversity aligned business outcomes.
TBA
Title: Rights-Based and Community-Led Forest Governance at Scale: Aligning Biodiversity, Climate Action, and Livelihoods in Practice
“Rights-Based and Community-Led Forest Governance at Scale” highlights how securing tenure and strengthening community leadership can enable forest governance models that deliver measurable outcomes for biodiversity protection, climate action, and sustainable livelihoods. The talk draws on practical lessons in recognising customary institutions, strengthening local decision making, and designing equitable benefit sharing, while exploring how policy support, financing mechanisms, and monitoring systems can scale community-led stewardship across larger landscapes with safeguards and accountability.
TBA
Title: Zoonotic Diseases and Pandemic Preparedness in the One Health Framework
“Zoonotic Diseases and Pandemic Preparedness in the One Health Framework” highlights how ecological change and human activities shape spillover risks at the human, animal, and environment interface in Indonesia and globally. The talk outlines preparedness strategies through One Health, focusing on prevention, early warning, and coordinated response, while showcasing how integrated surveillance and data sharing can strengthen risk mapping and monitoring of high risk interfaces. It also reflects on policy and implementation challenges in operationalising One Health, including governance coordination, institutional mandates, and resource constraints, with practical pathways to improve cross sector delivery.
TBA
Title: Candida from a One Health Perspective: Environmental Reservoirs and Global Health Implications
“Candida from a One Health Perspective” highlights how fungal ecology and environmental drivers shape Candida persistence, distribution, and interactions with human and animal hosts. The talk discusses antifungal resistance as an emerging global concern, examining how environmental exposure, antimicrobial use patterns, and health system pressures can accelerate resistance and complicate treatment outcomes. It also explores environmental reservoirs and transmission pathways across the human, animal, and environment interface, while linking climate change and ecosystem disruption to fungal disease emergence and shifting exposure risks.
TBA
Title: Food Security and Food Safety in a Changing Global Ecosystem
“Rights-Based and Community-Led Forest Governance at Scale”
“Food Security and Food Safety in a Changing Global Ecosystem” highlights how climate change and ecological instability are reshaping food system vulnerabilities, from production shocks and supply chain disruptions to evolving pest, pathogen, and contamination risks. The talk examines transboundary food safety threats that move through trade, migration, and interconnected markets, showing how risks can cascade across regions under uncertainty. It introduces integrated risk governance approaches within the One Health framework by linking environmental change, animal and human health, and food systems through coordinated assessment, surveillance, and response, and offers global policy insights on building food systems that are both sustainable and safe.
TBA
Title: Transforming Indigenous Livelihoods through Forest Guardianship in the Birdshead Peninsula of Southwest Papua
“Transforming Indigenous Livelihoods through Forest Guardianship in the Birdshead Peninsula of Southwest Papua” highlights how Indigenous stewardship can safeguard forest integrity, protect endemic wildlife, and sustain key ecosystem functions while strengthening culturally grounded livelihoods. The talk explores how rights recognition, equitable benefit sharing, and locally led enterprises can turn forest guardianship into durable prosperity, and reflects on practical pathways to scale these models through partnerships, enabling policy, and long term financing.
TBA
Title: Sustainable Management of Papuan Land-Based Products: Perspective from a Company
“Sustainable Management of Papuan Land-Based Products” highlights a company perspective on balancing production needs with biodiversity protection and community interests in Papua. The talk outlines practical approaches such as traceability and supply chain accountability, applying sustainability standards, and managing environmental and social risks at landscape scale to support long term productivity. It also emphasises enabling conditions and partnerships among companies, government, and Indigenous Peoples and local communities to strengthen governance, support equitable benefit sharing, and create shared value for resilient livelihoods and landscapes.
TBA
Title: Revealing bio-socio-ecology of pig-nosed turtle as a basis for sustainable harvest in South Papua
“Revealing bio-socio-ecology of pig-nosed turtle as a basis for sustainable harvest in South Papua” highlights how ecological and social evidence can guide sustainable use strategies that respect both conservation limits and community priorities. The talk connects species biology and habitat needs with the realities of customary governance, local livelihoods, market demand, and enforcement, showing how field monitoring and community knowledge can inform workable harvest rules and policy implementation.