Draft:Winita E. Kusnandar

Winita Ekasari Kusnandar is an Indonesian lawyer.. and entrepreneur.

Early life and education
Winita was born in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. Despite early ambitions of joining the Women's Army Corps, she studied law and graduated from Parahiyangan Catholic University in Bandung in 1975 and became a member of the Indonesian Bar Association (PERADI) in 1979. She later undertook a Master's of Business and Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Leicester in 2002 as well as a post-graduate degree in Competition Law at the Kings College, London in 2004

Career
Winita began her legal career by interning at the law offices of Delma Yuzar. She then briefly moved to the Notary offices of Kartini Muljadi before joining the law offices of Adnan Buyung Nasution & Assosiates in 1977. In 1980, she opened her own practice as Kusnandar & Co. and became affiliated with New York-based law firm, Coudert Brothers, and Washington-based law firm, Morgan Lewis & Bockius.

ED & F Man (Sugar) Ltd v Yani Haryanto Controversy
In a landmark case, Winita, through her firm Kusnandar & Co., represented global sugar supplier, ED & F Man (Sugar) Ltd in a dispute against a local distributor at the Supreme Court of Indonesia. For the first time in its history, the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Ali Said, enforced a foreign arbitration ruling in favor of ED & F Man (Sugar) Ltd under Supreme Court Execution Fiat Decision No1.Pen.Ex'r/Arb.Int/Pdt/1991 dated March 1 1991

However, the Supreme Court Execution was later annulled by the Supreme Court itself by Supreme Court Decision No. 1205 K/Pdt/1990, December 14 1991 on grounds that the executorial title was only for the foreign arbitration award whereby the implementation and enforcement must still be subject to Indonesian Procedural Law. As a result, Supreme Court Execution Fiat Decision No1.Pen.Ex'r/Arb.Int/Pdt/1991 dated March 1 1991 was never enforced even after the Indonesian government ratified the 1958 New York Convention through Presidential Decree No. 34/1981 which implemented automatic execution and implementation of decisions of foreign arbitration institution in Indonesia.