Co-Founder / Team Leader
(Executive Director, HRWG)

Daniel Awigra is a human rights activist and the Executive Director of Indonesia’s NGO Coalition for International Human Rights Advocacy or Human Rights Working Group (HRWG; www.hrwg.or.id) in Indonesia, where he leads the work of BEBESEA secretariat among many other regional and international human rights advocacy work. He has extensive experience of leading regional and national multi-stakeholders’ policy dialogues on the ASEAN Consensus on the protection of migrant workers’ rights in ASEAN member states. He has served as the International Advocacy Presidium of Jaringan Buruh Migran (Migrant Workers Network) since 2015, and co-founded Journalist Association for Diversity (SEJUK; sejuk.org) in 2008. He holds an MSc in International Relations from the University of Indonesia.

Co-Founder
(Executive Director, SEEAC)

Mariko currently serves as the Executive Director of Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC), a London based civil society and community organisation led by and for migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum from East and Southeast Asia. She is also a freelance consultant, researcher and project coordinator focusing on migration and human rights, and strategises and coordinates the activities of BEBESEA. She previously worked as a Program Officer at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, where she initiated building and strengthening a cross-regional network of migrant rights advocates in East and Southeast Asia in cooperation with HRWG – this network later became BEBESEA. Trustee of Kanlungan Filipino Consortium and Protection Approaches.

Social Media and Communications Officer

Ena is a graduate at Notre Dame of Dadiangas University with an accounting degree but pursued a graphic design career. She has been doing freelance designing work from local and international clients. She develops and implements BEBESEA’s communication strategies and is in charge of creating and disseminating the multimedia contents as well as social media engagement. Currently, she is also the Auditor and one of the heads of the Branding and Creatives Committee of YABONG Philippines Inc, an organization that aims on educating the youth about media and information literacy.

Network Engagement Officer

Dhito is a Bachelor of International Relations graduate from Universitas Jendral Achmad Yani. He has co-founded D’medicore Debate and Speech Community and Indonesia Model United Nations Forum during his university years where he dwells in different Model United Nations simulations and debate competition on how to tackle the current world problems through policies made by Multilateral and Bilateral interactions. He is currently responsible for managing the communication and engagement with networks and stakeholders of BEBESEA, while also assisting Jesse with the Voicesea Podcast. Prior to BEBESEA, Dhito has also worked for International Global Network (IGN) for 2 years as an academic researcher, Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) as a research intern, and Garuda Shield as a translator & interpreter.