About

Board Members

 
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santy kouwagam

Santy is a lawyer focusing her practice on dispute resolutions involving state courts, particularly in private law, such as family and contract disputes.

She is seasoned in negotiating, structuring, executing cross-border commercial transactions, and further analyze and solve or minimize the legal and business risks involved with such structures.

Santy is also an experienced translator and interpreter of English-Indonesian-English, especially in conflict situations. She likes to cook and play board games.

 
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maarten manse

Maarten is a historian specializing in colonial mechanisms of governance, taxation and statecraft, specifically in the case of the Netherlands East-Indies. He has wide experience in conducting archival research in both Indonesia and the Netherlands. In his spare time, Maarten enjoys running and both listening to and playing classical music.

 
 
 
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mies grijns

Mies is an anthropologist with broad research experience in West Java, Indonesia on labour relations, gender and family law. She is also the founder and chair of the Java Village Foundation, supporting women and young people in the region where she became involved with research.

 
 
 

PETER De MEIJ

Peter has worked as a program manager and advisor for legal development cooperation with Indonesia, where he was based for more than twenty years. He focuses on institutional capacity building, civil society and access to justice. He likes to listen to music and go for walks.