We are excited to welcome our new YPARD Indonesia Country Representative, Mukhlish Jamal Musa Holle!
Jamal is an ecologist by training who focuses on sustainable tropical agriculture for conserving and restoring tropical forest because tropical agriculture has been a major driver to deforestation in Southeast Asia.
Jamal has been involved in various agriculture-related projects. Jamal was a researcher of the Trade HUB project for systematic review of evidence for biodiversity and agriculture production in tropical forest landscape at Research Center for Climate Change, University of Indonesia.
Jamal is currently a teaching staff at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. Realising that forest conservation issue is complex, Jamal tries to tackle this issue and close the gaps through interdisciplinary approaches, including governance and social approaches. Jamal has been appointed as a Fellow at the Project on Nature and Governance, UC Los Angeles to work on a project that identifies the cross-stakeholders' barriers and opportunities in implementing sustainable oil palm plantation. In addition, Jamal is currently working as a Research Associate at IPB University on a project that identifies options for restoring river systems in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations by conducting socio-ecological surveys.
As part of the YPARD, Jamal is planning to organise a series of thematic talks and discussion, education via online platforms, career talks with young professionals in various sectors related to agriculture, training and workshops, capacity building in sustaining the food systems and public outreach. All of these will be conducted in collaboration with local experts and organizations from various sectors.
Jamal obtained his bachelor’s in biology from Gadjah Mada University. Jamal has two master’s degrees, MEnvSc from Hokkaido University as an INPEX Scholar and MBA from Quantic. Jamal's PhD project at Oxford University explored the tropical agroecosystem functions under changing climate and land-use, which lay a theoretical foundation for agricultural landscape management.
Welcome to YPARD!
