History

Yayasan Selaksa Sejahtera or Yasera for short was founded on 01 November 2016 by a group of young leaders who have a passion to take part in poverty alleviation in Indonesia through community development programs that focus on vulnerable families in Indonesia. The founders of Yasera have various experiences in community development in both local and international organizations.

The focus of our community development is to create families that are healthy (by improving child nutritional status), self-sufficient (through strengthening the family-based agricultural business), and flourish (through awareness of anti-domestic violence in Papua, anti-trafficking of children in Bali, and anti-early marriage in Lombok).

Family Strengthening

We started Papuan Family Strengthening Program in Jayawijaya Regency (currently the Capital City of the Central Papua Province), which aims to create healthy families through improving the nutritional and health status of children under five years old and strengthen marriages among families we serve.

Integrated Community Resilient

We started the Integrated Community Resilient Program which focuses on strengthening vulnerable families in East Bali, while at the same time we were also involved in earthquake response in Lombok, which then led us to start the Lombok Integral Community Program in early 2019 to vulnerable families in North Lombok.

Transformation Center

We completed the construction of our first Transformation Center located in Wamena, which not only functions as an operational office, but also where we conduct various trainings to increase the capacity of the leaders of the communities we serve. This Transformation Center is also a learning center for vulnerable young people who live in the city of Wamena. At the end of 2019, together with partners from various ethnic and religious backgrounds, we conducted trauma healing activities for victims of the riots in Wamena. We also use the Transformation Center in Wamena as a place for young people from various ethnicities and religions to become the 'Generation of Peace' in the environment they meet every day in response to Wamena riots on September 23, 2019.

Covid-19 Response

We are responding to Covid-19 in every location where we work, Papua, Bali, and West Nusa Tenggara Provinces. In the same year, together with the community in a village in East Bali, we built access to clean water by pulling water from Lake Batur along 7.8 KM, so that more than 800 families have access to clean water and improve the health of families in the village.

In mid-2021, based on a Board Member decision, the head office was moved from Jayawijaya in Papua to Gianyar in Bali. As of today, the Yayasan Selaksa Sejahtera is in 5 (five) different locations in Indonesia, namely, Jayawijaya of Papua, Karangasem of Bali, North Lombok of West Nusa Tenggara, Gianyar of Bali and just recently in Sumba Barat Daya of East Nusa Tenggara.

Our Team

Hamdani Tedja

Hamdani Tedja

Board Chair
He joined Yasera in 2020, started his career in marketing for more than 10 years and has extensive connections in the business world both at home and abroad. Over the last decade, he has been active in building the capacity of community leaders and social and humanitarian workers from various ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds in various remote areas in Indonesia.
Dimon Sianturi

Dimon Sianturi

Board Member
He joined Yasera since 2020, dedicating his life with his wife in serving the families where he is placed.
Robert Tarigan

Robert Tarigan

Advisory Board
He joined Yasera from the beginning in 2016 as the Chairperson of the Trustees and switched functions to become the Advisor of the Foundation in 2020. He is very inspirational and has trained many religious leaders in Indonesia through leadership training.
Helga Theresa

Helga Theresa

Supervisory Board
One of the young leaders who founded Yasera in 2016, has a background in psychology education and until now has good capacity and reputation as a human resource leader in various for-profit and non-profit organizations in Indonesia.
Irene Heidy

Irene Heidy

Executive Director
She is one of the core members who established Yasera last 2016. She has various experience in community development and has worked for international organizations. She has led the organization for more than 6 years and has managed the teams to serve more than 2000 vulnerable families in Bali, Lombok, and Papua.
Visanty Tarigan

Visanty Tarigan

Partnership Director
She has various experience working for community development and emergency response in international and domestic communities. She previously worked more than 5 years in North Lombok as program manager of World Relief. She is now serving as secretary of Yasera who is based in Lombok, to monitor and ensure the program targets are reached. She is also responsible for creating and writing donor reports.
Gita Advina

Gita Advina

Finance Director
She is a graduate of accounting from a well-known university in West Java. She has been working with Yasera for more than two years now. She has experience in handling transaction records and reporting to various donors.