Welcoming Bambang Harymurthi as PISAgro Advisor

The PISAgro secretariat is proud to acknowledge Bambang Harymurti as part of PISAgro’s board of advisors as of February 2016. The advisors serve a critical role in providing sound advice, opinions, and suggestions for the Partnership in advancing its programs and reaching its goal and vision. Affectionately known as BHM, Bambang Harymurti is a journalist and was editor-in-chief of Tempo magazine in 1999 and its newspaper version in 2001. Currently he is a senior editor for Tempo.

PISAgro has forseen the importance of media as a close ally and collaborator. Its ciritical that this public-private partnership forge a strong and mutual relationship with members of the media to disseminate information to the public about our work. PISAgro needs to continue to showcase its successes, share its models, and disseminate lesson learned to the boarder public, in particular with the aim to educate decision makers, members of the media, as well as inspire other companies, business associations to create tangible and sustainable change in Indonesia’s agriculture sector.

In an interview with Pak Bambang Harymurti early February this year, the Secretariat was able to tap into some of his thoughts and ideas about PISAgro and Indonesia’s agriculture in general.

Bambang Harymurti has commended our work in the field, particularly engaging cooperatives within our projects. He knows very well that cooperatives are not the easiest organizations to work with, but he thinks this is a great opportunity to strengthen them into valuable, professional assests that can be equal partners to PISAgros’s member companies.

He also touched about how through education and work force diversification, and how value chain players both at midstream and downstream can play a bigger role in helping farmers and their familiy to prosper more in the future.

On behalf of PISAgro Board, we welcome Bambang Harymurti on board.

Photo caption: PISAgro Board breakfast meeting (1/2/2016) with Tempo magazine and TNI. From left-right: Harry Hanawi of Sinar Mas, Aster KASAD Mayjen Kustanto Widiatmoko, Co-Chairman Franky O. Widjaja, Bambang Harymurti, PISAgro Secretary General Franky Welirang, and Wisman Djaja of Nestlé Indonesia.

Cover Photo @ PISAgro