Iwan is a Senior Community Engagement Specialist within Daemeter’s Social, Smallholder and Livelihoods team. His work centres on social due diligence, human rights assessment, and long-term community engagement across Indonesia’s forest and plantation landscapes, translating complex stakeholder dynamics into investor-grade evidence and adaptive, learning-oriented programmes.

With more than 25 years of field experience, Iwan has led and contributed to HCV identification, Social Impact Assessments, and Human Rights Impact Assessments across oil palm, forestry, and tobacco agriculture sectors, supporting clients to meet RSPO, IFC Performance Standards, and EUDR-aligned requirements. His fieldwork spans Kalimantan, Sumatera, Riau, Jambi, and Papua. An RSPO-approved HCV assessor, he is a senior assessor on workers’ rights, FPIC, and the rights of indigenous peoples, and brings particular depth in participatory mapping, stakeholder analysis, and action research that supports adaptive management over multi-year engagements.

Iwan finds the most reward in work that requires patient listening and trust-building across very different perspectives, particularly where sensitive land and livelihood challenges are at stake. His longitudinal approach, returning to the same communities and landscapes over years, has built a deep evidence base on what works, and what doesn’t, in social performance over time. Before joining Daemeter, he spent a decade in forestry consulting on management plans and environmental impact assessments.

Iwan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Forest Product Technology from IPB University and is a native Bahasa Indonesia speaker. When he is not on assignment, Iwan is most at home outdoors.