Iis finished his bachelor degree in foresty (University of Tanjungpura) and Master's degree in anthrotpology (Univeristas Indonesia) As forester iis is competent to work on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) related issues. He Develops skill as anthropologist specifically in conflict resolution and ethnography with participatory research appraisal methods. In order to bring Anama into its vision, Iis has been associated with a variety of entrepreneurial communitiees and has participated in various leadership, managerial and business skills development capacities.

With over 20 years experience, Sundjaya has been helping many national and international organization in has Project Monitoring and Evaluation Expert. His background in anthropology strengthened his intuition in developng the best strategy in adaptive management. He has been providing services to projects form ADB, World Bank, MCA and also EU in setting up the projects indicators, using the precise means of verification to ensure the project deliverables.

Holds a Doctoral degree from the Institue of Social Anthropology. University of Freiburg in 2019 and obtained his master degree from EHESS Paris at 2014. He is now Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Indonesia and also the chairman for Undergraduate Program, Department of Anthropology Universitas Indonesia. In the past ten years. He was involved in several research collaborations with Fauna & Flora International and other research institution in doing social, economy, and cultural ethnographical assessment related to various schemes of community based forest management and livelihood analysis.

Has over 25 years experience working in Indonesia on nature conservation, particularly related to protected area management, species conservation, forest governance and law enforcement. Since 2007 Darmawan has been actively promoted public. Private and people partnership to strengthening biodiversity conservation efforts on the ground. To realizing strong partnership, he actively involved in RSPO discussions in Indonesia both with NGO's and business communities. Darmawan served as an Expert Coordinator for the High Conservation Value RSPO Indonesia Working Group (HCV RIWG) to develop a HCV Area Management Manual for Oil Palm Plantations. Darmawan has actively promoted HCV Assessment in oil palm plantations as wel as timber concession as a key tool to develop best management practices to integrate biodiversity conservation and RSPO Principles and Criteria in plantation operation.