Zenzi Suhadi
Zenzi Suhadi is the Head of the Department of Advocacy at the national executive office at Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI, or “The Indonesian Forum for the Environment”). With a background in biology from the University of Bengkulu, his home province on the island of Sumatra, Suhadi has been an active member of WALHI since 2005. From 2008 to 2012 he was the Executive Director of WALHI Bengkulu, working hard to support the region’s communities in their struggle against corruption, illegally granted mining and plantation concessions, land grabbing, environmental pollution, deforestation, and the frequent application of physical violence against protesters and affected individuals in local villages. Since 2012, Suhadi has worked in WALHI’s national office, where until 2016 he held a Campaigner position, focusing on forests and large-scale plantations. In both this and his current position he has been advising the Indonesian government and foreign diplomats in their stance and policies about plantations, palm oil, ecosystem restoration, forest fires, and the haze problem, as well as the Peatland Moratoria from 2014 and 2016.