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Faisal Yusuf
Background

Faisal Yusuf, BEng(Hons).,MSc (born 10 April 1978) is a young intellectual and an activist in environment, energy and climate change and is running in Indonesia’s 2014 legislative elections for a seat in national house of representative. He is being nominated by the newly formed NasDem party to represent Jakarta 1 electoral district, which consists of East Jakarta.

Faisal has a strong credential as a seasoned and all-around policy analyst and advisor. His works in policy analysis have contributed to a number of areas such as democratic governance, infrastructure development and climate change. However, his passion in the later field conical Faisal to focus its political movement in the elections 2014 and further translated into his vision and mission.

Faisal’s interest in the world of politics grounded by 3 things:

1. The issues of environment, energy and climate change has not much touched by the legislature. Mainstreaming such issues in the legislative function is very important due to combat climate change impacts.

2. Changing the viewpoints of community especially young people perspective on Indonesian politics. "Young people in Indonesia don't like politics." The statement affirmed the vice president, Budiono in the preamble of the National Resilience Institute celebration (Lemhanas, May 8, 2013). Elections in 2014 are the right moment for the youngster to contribute something in the political processes.

3. Young people in Indonesia need role models. In today’s society, many young politicians are entangled in Indonesia corruption cases. Faisal wanted to bring a whole new dimension as well as a new paradigm of a fresh new figure that can contribute to political process as someone who has a vision and clean track record.

Faisal is the third son of Firdaus and dr. Farida Yusuf. His native Jakartan blood is coming from his father. Raised under strict Muslim values yet egalitarian family culture, young Faisal known to have strong future vision and self-determination.

Career

Before entering politics, Faisal worked as a Policy Analyst and advisor at various international organisation and UN agencies in Indonesia and abroad. At the age of 31, he was appointed as a Climate Change Advisor for the UNESCO regional science bureau for Asia and Pacific office in Jakarta in 2009. Prior to that, Faisal was recruited by the UNDP to provide professional advice on coordinating donors’ support in view of the 2009 general elections. His close broad exposure to the UN organizations partly owed to his stint period of training at the UN Institute of Training and Research in 2003-2004, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Faisal also worked as a project manager in managing in infrastructure management programme and variety of other projects in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2007 under Afghan Services and Products, a privately-owned company. In 2005-2007, he worked for the ASEAN Secretariat for the period of 2005 – 2007 in the areas of infrastructure policy and diplomacy, particularly on E-ASEAN initiative supporting the economic blueprint advancement of 10 ASEAN Member States. In addition he also briefly worked with political and risk consultancy firm, Control Risks.

Education

Faisal obtained his Masters degree in Management and Information Systems which uniquely focuses on politics, philosophy and economics from the prestigious London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2003.

Among his circle of college friends at that time were Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Prince Hakoon of Norway and Indonesian politician Fadli Zon with whom they both joined the organization to oppose US invasion to Iraq, “LSE Stop the War Coalition” (2002-2003). He also spent his period in London with another Indonesian activist, Budiman Sudjatmiko. In the year of 2005 Faisal contributed many of his writings in area of “the politics and information system” to Budiman’s research think tank, Respublika Institute.

He earned his Bachelor degree with Honours in Computer Systems Engineering from Australia’s La Trobe University in Melbourne in 2001.

For his honours year, he developed a thesis in cross-cutting domain of philosophy, artificial intelligence and law on marriage and property ownership. The system was put into a test by Victoria Legal Aid and parts of his study appeared on the 2005 edition of MIT technology review magazine.

Faisal spent his high school period at SMA Negeri 8, South Jakarta graduated in 1996, Junior high and elementary school at SMP and SD St. Antonius 2, Jakarta Timur 1993 and 1990 respectively.

Climate Change

Asides from his policy advice career in infrastructure management and governance, Faisal has also developed a keen interest in the issue of climate change.

His climate change experience dated back to 2008 when he was hired by the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) as Trust Fund Climate Change Expert. Under GTZ, he was the key person in drafted – along with the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) and the Ministry of Finance - the influential blueprint of Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF). The trust fund is a vehicle to fund all activities to mitigate climate change impacts as well as to mainstream climate change issues into national development plans.

While with the UNESCO, Faisal was in charge primarily in two areas. Firstly, advise and supervise the development of climate change initiatives with Asia Pacific region such as United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), United Nations Development Group (UNDG) thematic area on Environmental and Climate Change and research cross-cutting issues between integrated climate change, water security, biosphere reserve, energy and environmental resources management and secondly, protecting Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (THRS) which comprises of Bukit Barisan Selatan, Kerinci Seblat and Gunung Leuser national parks through adaptation and mitigation intervention from increasing anthropogenic stresses such as deforestation, encroachment, illegal logging, forest fires and poaching as well as developing of carbon trading system vis a vis REDD project.

He also worked with Blue World Carbon, a global carbon asset management company as the Head of Business Development and Arghajata alliance through Green Works Asia as an Advisor in advising total solutions for low carbon economic through public and private organizations.

Private sector

At the age of 32, Faisal co-established consulting firm, Circa 8 Consulting ( http://www.circa8consulting.com ) which specializes in risk analysis and corporate sustainability. The company was later acquired by Arghajata alliance network (http://www.arghajata.com ), a Jakarta based professional services firms and a local partner of global management consultancy firm, Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) (http://www.strategyand.pwc.com).

Personal Life

Faisal has keen interest in arts and music scene. He likes to watch live musical concerts. He is also an avid drummer. He performed with his high school band at various youth festivals in Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang and Bekasi. His favorite bands are: Coldplay, Iwan Fals, U2, Metallica, Guns n Roses and Gigi.

Amongst his family and high school mates, He is famous by nick name “Pecong” which dubbed from the national pancake of Pancong.

Movie and Social Media activities

Faisal edited an indie movie called Melayang (Fly Away) in year of 2000 and the movie was screened amongst the Indonesian student communities in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Boston and Jakarta.Faisal is one of the editors for online youth magazine http://www.indocampus.org. His writings focused mainly on music, film and youth issues.

Faisal's website: http://www.faisalyusuf.web.id. Twitter account can be founded at: @faisalyusuf. Furthermore, his facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/faisalyusuf.6. Faisal is also existed on Linkedin.

Organization and Charity work

Faisal is very active in organization and charity sphere. He was the president of Indonesian student association at Latrobe University for two periods (1999-2001) and an active member of various alumni chapters including LSE and La Trobe alumni in Indonesia. In addition, since 2006 he ran a unique charity group of youngster called “Ramadhan gift” which aims to contribute to the quality of life of the poor within Jakarta area. In addition, starting in 2009 onwards, Faisal is actively involved in Yayasan Goodwill Indonesia through AmCham young professional in helping young talented Indonesian university students shaping their future through its career coach direction.