Lukas is a Social Specialist within Daemeter’s Social, Smallholder and Livelihoods unit. His day-to-day work focuses on social assessment deliverables, community engagement with smallholders and indigenous peoples, FPIC framework development, and NDPE compliance verification, increasingly framed as investor-grade due diligence, for palm oil sector clients.

He brings more than a decade of experience in social impact assessment, conflict resolution, grievance handling, and FPIC implementation across the plantation industry. At Daemeter, he has developed smallholder certification strategies, conducted third-party NDPE verification through document review and field assessment, and supported human rights-related project implementation. His approach is grounded in direct community engagement, from participatory mapping and land tenure studies through to mediation and grievance resolution, and feeds into the kind of long-term accountability and learning processes that landscape and supply chain programmes require.

Lukas is motivated by work that gives communities a genuine seat at the table in how land-use decisions are made. Before Daemeter, he spent five years at a major palm oil company, progressing through FPIC, conflict resolution, and social assessment roles. Prior to that, he coordinated social impact assessments at a civil society organisation working with oil palm communities. He has received training in ESIA from the Environmental Studies Center at Universitas Gadjah Mada, as well as in business and human rights.

He holds a BSc in Environmental Biology from Duta Wacana Christian University. He is a native Bahasa Indonesia speaker and fluent in English. Most weekends, Lukas straps on a helmet and takes his bike out for a long ride around the city.