Supervisory Board

Aloysius Purwa (Al)
Al is a MBA graduate and currently he is the Honorary Consul of the Netherlands, President of Skal International Bali, Chairman of the Bali IATA Agents, a VP of Bali Chamber of Commerce, and a VP of the Bali Tourism Board. Al currently also serves as the Managing Director of KCB Tours & Travel, Managing Director of Cempaka Belimbing Villas, and Director of Aneka Beach Hotel. He is a Rotarian and a Past President of Rotary Club Bali Kuta.

Dr. Anak Agung Asmarajaya
Educated in Jakarta and Australia, Dr. Asmarajaya is Bali's leading plastic surgeon and currently is the head of the plastic surgery department at Sanglah Hospital. For several years he has worked with the Cranio Facial Institute of Adelaide, headed by the world renowned Dr. David David. Since 1994 Dr. Asmarajaya has donated his services to perform over 600 cleft and lip palate operations that have been financed by the Rotary Club Bali Nusa Dua. Dr. Asmarajaya is a member of the royal family of Peliatan.

Advisory Board

Dr. Anwar Santoso SpJP
Dr. Anwar graduated from Medical School, University of Airlangga, Surabaya in 1981 and then he continued to take his specialist training in Cardiology at the same university. He has also taken courses and training in Melbourne, the universities of Brawijaya, Gajah Mada and Pajajaran. Dr Anwar is currently a Lecturer at the medical faculty of the University of Udayana. In addition, he is also a Cardiology Consultant at Sanglah Hospital and the Coordinator of Research Division in the Department of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Indonesian Heart Foundation- Bali and the American Heart Association-Bali.

Dr. Ida Bagus Tjakra Manuaba
Dr Tjakra was born in Denpasar in 1948. He is married with one daughter. He graduated from the Medical School, University of Gajah Mada in 1973. In 1980 he underwent specialist training in Public Health at the University of Hawaii,. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Senior Consultant of Surgical Oncology at the Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, at the University of Udayana in Denpasar and is also the Head of the Surgical Oncology Division, Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Udayana/RSUP Sanglah Denpasar, Bali. He is a member of the National Board of Study of General Surgery of Indonesia and a member of the International Society of Surgery in Switzerland. During the bomb blast, he was in charge as team leader in treating the victims.

Management Board

Chairperson: David Magson
David holds dual Australian and British citizenship. A Mathematician, he is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a member of the Indonesian Australian Business Council. He has been in business in Indonesian for 15 years, prior to which he spent over 20 years in the mining industry working in the UK, Africa, and Australia. David currently serves as the President Director of P.T. Mitrais, Chairman of P.T. Mincom Indoservices, and Auslang International Pty Ltd. and a Non Executive Director of Oniqua Pty Ltd. He is also on the board of the Bali International School. In the wake of the blast. David assisted wounded Australians to evacuate and then worked in the morgue on behalf of the British Consul for 4 days.

Secretary: Purnama Bulan Harris
Purnama also known as Wiwie is an Indonesian. Prior to joining Mitrais, she worked for various companies in Jakarta for 13 years. She spent one year in Bali in 1989 working for the Ramada Bintang Bali Hotel. She kept on wanting to return to Bali, and 10 years later she finally moved to Bali with her family. She currently serves as Office Manager of Mitrais Software Development Center in Bali. After the bomb blast, Wiwie coordinated the donated medical supplies inventory with the assistance of Mitrais staff.

YKIP MEMBERS

Dr. Denise Abe is an medical doctor specializing in Internal Medicine and cross-cultural health care. She was the medical director of an international health care clinic for Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants and refugees in the International District of Seattle, Washington for ten years prior to moving to Bali in 1995. During that time she worked with several national advocacy groups, including the Center for Disease Control and the National Association of Community Health Centers to help inform the U.S. Congress on the specific health issues and approaches to improving care to the Asian and Pacific Islander populations. More recently she completed a Master in International Public Health which has helped to inform her work with the East Bali Poverty Project and University of Udayana Medical School in Bali.

Dr. A. Andreas J. Dewanto Dipa (Andre)
Dr. Andre was born in Kediri, East Java and did all his schooling in Denpasar Bali. He is married to a Balinese and has 3 children. He graduated from the Faculty of SchoolMedicine of Udayana University in 1987. He is now the Chief of the Foreign Patient Handling Team of Sanglah Hospital. In addition to his duties at the Sanglah Hospital, he is an On Call Doctor / Correspondence doctor to AXA Assistance, Swiss Consulate Bali, Swiss Air Ambulance, Global Assistance, Euro Alarm, German Consulate, Medicall Switzerland, SOS International Copenhagen and Nordic International Copenhagen. He is a Rotarian and during the bomb blast, he tirelessly worked at the Sanglah Hospital helping the victims.

Dr. Carlo A. Forzinetti
Dr. Forzinetti was born in Milan in 1951. He is a cardiovascular surgeon, a graduate of the University of Milan and did his specialization at the University of Verona, Italy. He worked at the Heart Surgery Department - Hospital Maggiore in Milan for 14 years from 1976 to 1990. He was a Visiting Heart Surgeon at the University of San FransiscoFrancisco, Boston and Salt Lake City USA from 1980 to 1981 and served for one year in 1986 at the Trousseau Hospital in Tours, France. He withdrew from active duty in his profession in 1991 for personal reasons. Since then, he has been involved in industrial and decorative design and architecture, founding and directing companies in the UK and Italy. Dr. Forzinetti has been in Bali with his family for the past 6 years and is the founder and President Director of PT de-LIGHTING RAYA BALI.

Cody Shwaiko
Cody Shwaiko is a long term resident of Indonesia, having spent over thirty years in the country. He is the founder and director of The Komodo Foundation based in Labuanbajo, Flores, an organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the Komodo National Park, a World Heritage site, and its environs. He was a member and secretary of the Bali International School board over a period of four years, from 1990 to 1994. Before retiring, he was involved in a wide variety of business enterprises ranging from tourism development to handicrafts export.

Diana von Cranach has lived in North Bali for many years and is the co-owner of Puri Ganesha in Pemuteran village. She has been instrumental in helping the women of Pemuteran with health issues.

Elizabeth Magson has lived in Indonesia for 14 years, most of those in Jakarta. She was one of the engines in getting the medical donations for the bomb through Indonesian customs and distributed to the proper authorities.

Jeff Anderson
Jeff first came to Indonesia as a volunteer English teacher for a large Muslim boarding school on the island of Madura. Since then Jeff has worked in various fields in Bali including radio and garment production, and for the past three years has been the General Manager of Rip Curl Indonesia. For the duration of the week following the blast he was coordinating volunteer efforts at Sanglah hospital for Indonesians and foreigners alike.

Ken McClellan
Ken is an American with 22 years in IT, who first came to Indonesia in 1990. Since that time, Ken has established and developed IT departments for an oil and gas company both in Indonesia and Bolivia, served as a technical advisor to a systems integration company in Indonesia and built and is currently managing a software development firm in Bali. After the bomb blast, Ken directed his group's efforts in establishing a network for the Crisis Center, providing information about medical donations via the internet and is now directing efforts to provide and improve information gathering and distribution efforts for YKIP.

Kim Patra
While an Indonesian citizen, Kim Patra was born an Australian and is a trained registered nurse. She was a founding member of the BIMC medical center, however is now self employed and works as a freelance nurse / midwife in the community. Kim has worked tirelessly throughout the bomb crisis to provide relief of victims, she was awarded the Medal (OAM) of the order of Australia for service through the provision of assistance of victims and to their families in the immediate aftermath of the bombings which occured in Bali on 12 October 2002. She has written a book about her experiences during the bomb entitled IN THE ARMS OF THE ANGELS.

Mark Keatinge
Mark arrived in Bali twenty-nine years ago on a sinking yacht and has made the village of Sidakarya in South Denpasar home. With his Balinese wife, Ketut, he is active in village life and together they operate an international company based in Bali, manufacturing prefabricated buildings. He is active in the Community Assistance and Development Committee of YKIP helping coordinate the YKIP Bali Children's Education Fund.

Douglas Peckham is a Native New Yorker who made Bali his home eleven years ago. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University, (BA, Political Theory) in Lexington, Va., and the Stern School of Business, New York University (MBA, International Finance). Doug has worked as an International Commercial Banker, Investment Portfolio Manager, Small Business Workout manager, as well as a variety of corporate and investing consulting positions. From Fall, 2003 to the present, Doug has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bali International School. In addition, he is involved in several projects assisting those recovering from substance abuse on the island of Bali.

Peter Richter
Peter and his family came to Bali in 1990 so as to enable Peter to oversee his company's development throughout South East Asia. Previously his career took him to the UK, Middle East and Australia. Peter is Managing Director of DGJones & Partners Ltd - an International firm of Construction Consultant with offices worldwide. Within Bali the firm has formed a c onstruction company that is involved in many hotel, residential and commercial developments, including the Four Seasons Hotel - Jimbaran and the Bakrie Nirwana Resort -Tanah Lot. His firm also has extensive Hospital development experience throughout South East Asia . Peter is a member of Rotary Club Nusa Dua and has had a long term goal to establish a new hospital facility in Bali.

Richard Flax
Richard Flax, who is Australian, has lived in Bali since 1975. At that time he started using his own medical kit to help people in need. Since then this free service has become a 24 hour 7 day a week free medical advice and consultation telephone hot line, which is available to the entire community and visitors. Richard has coordinated medical evacuations for many years for those in need. During the recent disaster his organization received about 800 calls from around the world and Richard and his team coordinated evacuation planes and worked closely with the Australian consulate, hospitals and all others seeking help and assistance. Richard speaks both Indonesian and Balinese and is co-founder and director of a remote adventure sports resort on the Indonesian Island of Sumba. He recently co-produced an Australian Broadcasting Corporation sponsored documentary film in Bali called Wave of change/ Balinese Surfer 2 which started a local foundation to resolve some of Bali's environmental problems. Richard was on the board of directors of the Bali International school for 6 years.

EMPLOYEES

Rucina Ballinger (CEO)
Rucina, an American by birth and Indonesian by naturalization, first came to Bali in 1974 to conduct research on Balinese dance and theatre and has lived here permanently since 1985. Co-author with Wayan Dibia of the recently published book Balinese Dance, Drama and Music (Singapore/Berkeley: Periplus Editions, 2004), Rucina lives in a village near Ubud with her Balinese husband and two teenage sons. With her husband, she runs educational study programs throughout Indonesia. Her love for Balinese arts thrust her into the post-bomb YKIP Wayang Kulit Trauma Counseling Project. She is currently the CEO of YKIP.

Ni Putu Sherlyana is the field officer for YKIP/KIDS. She is a graduate of the Nusa Dua Tourism School and worked as one of the capacitars on the Trauma Counseling project for YKIP. Her duties now are to ensure that payments for the children of the bomb victims are made to the schools and to oversee the KIDS' field operations.

Ni Kadek Astrid Adriana Wulandari Rejonta Ni Kadek Astrid Adriana Wulandari Rejonta was raised in Denpasar and has been a radio announcer, motorcross driver and a fieldworker for YAKEBA. She is currently the YKIP field officer.

Nyoman Suryani was born in Klungkung. A graduate of Accounting at Brawijaya University in Malang, Java, she is YKIP's part-time accountant. She has worked as an accountant in Australia and Indonesia and currently works as one of PT Mitrais' accountants.

Ni Made Rai Trishnayanti was born and raised in Tabanan. She graduated from Warmadewa University in English in 2004. She has worked at BIWA and has been the YKIP secretary since 2005. Her hobbies include reading and listening to music.