Tridaya Advisory was founded and run by three senior figures who are directly involved in the rapid transformation that takes place in Indonesia: Erry R. Hardjapamekas, Kemal A. Stamboel, and Arief T. Surowidjojo. All three are practitioners in several civil society initiatives that create significant changes. The non-governmental organizations in which they work, both individually and together, include Masyarakat Transparansi Indonesia, Transparency International Indonesia, Pusat Studi Hukum dan Kebijakan Indonesia, WWF Indonesia, Sampoerna Foundation, and many others.
In the industry, they are individually and together trusted to be independent commissioners and chairpersons also audit committee members of several numbers of public companies, such as Bank BNI, Holcim, Unilever, Krakatau Steel, Inco, Sampoerna Agro, Titan, and others. It proves their leadership in major governance issues.
Each of the founders of Tridaya Advisory is strong individual and has high integrity and professionalism in their respective fields, which if put together is a combination of three effective forces that are able to provide guidance to the government, industry, and civil society regarding various governance issues, government-business relations, and the involvement of civil society in the formation of public policy.
More than that, the combination of these three forces is not only the strength of three people, but also a combination of networks that have been built and developed for more than 30 years. The combination of the three networks is unique, reaching top bureaucrat and industry executives, middle class professionals, as well as common people who are undergoing continuous transformation.
ERRY RIYANA HARDJAPAMEKAS
Founder
Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas is former CEO of PT Timah Tbk (Timah), a company that has become the role model for other state-owned enterprises to successfully carry out transformation. Under his leadership, Timah was successfully transformed from a very feudal and bureaucratic state-owned enterprise, into government and government officials, and was corrupt and inefficient into the most modern state-owned enterprise and among the first in carrying out good corporate governance.
As the deputy leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in 2003 – 2008, he was considered very successful in bringing is to become one of the state commissions capable of laying the foundations of clean governance and eradicating corruption that was endemic in Indonesia. His network is very broad covering state leaders and high state institutions, parliaments, regional leaders, informal leaders, and civil society.
KEMAL AZIZ STAMBOEL
Founder
Kemal Aziz Stamboel is former CEO of Price Waterhouse Coopers Consultants in Indonesia and has since become an icon of modern management, especially in human resources, information technology, and transformation of state-owned enterprises.
The extraordinary experience in the 1997 crisis and overseeing the performance of Aceh and Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency made his capability proven in completing important tasks with unusually difficult conditions and backgrounds.
As one of the members of the National Good Corporate Governance Commission, he mastered the basics, strategies, and techniques of transforming any type of business as well as being a good business citizen, contributing positively to the country’s economy and simultaneously supporting the lives of surrounding communities effectively and sustainably. These are skills needed in repositioning the industry in over changing society.
ARIEF TARUNAKARYA SUROWIDJOJO
Founder
Arief Tarunakarya Surowidjojo is founder and senior partner of Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo law firm and for the past 43 years has focused in corporate law, acquisition and merger, and corporate finance.
His experience as government’s main legal counsel in the 1998-2003 banking restructuring, followed by his role as the coordinator of government’s Legal Aid Team in assessing the obedience of large obligors in fulfilling their obligations to the state, as well as his prominent role in conducting hundreds of merger, acquisition, and market projects capital, making him able to combine and balance national, business, and individual interests in effective and conducive legal corridors.