SINERGY RESEARCH COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION
SINERGI RISET TRANSFORMASI MASYARAKAT

SINERGI contributes to sustainable development by strengthening linkage between research and development policy and practices. We help public services and economic actors including NGOs, Government and private sectors to integrate data into the decision making process. We bring synergic  between research and policy and practices since development planning, implementation and evaluation.  
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Established in July 2023 as PT (corporate entity based on Indonesian legal system) with the Ministry of Legal and Human Rights of Indonesia Registration of AHU-048072.AH.01.30 Tahun 2023 with Business ID No. (No. Induk Berusaha No. 1107230149343

SINERGI has strong expertise in social, economic and sustainability such as:

• Human rights
• Labour and industrial relations
• Social Development
• Project Evaluation
• Economic Development
• Community Empowerment
• Corporate Social Responsibility 
• Sustainable agriculture 
• Forest Conservation
• Social Forestry 

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Our Expert

Dr.Henri Sitorus
Dr. Henri Sitorus has strong expertise in environmental sociology, social forestry, climate changes and food security. He has strong expertise in socio-ecological research. Currently engage in consultant advising community conservation programme and climate changes response. He has strong expertise in climate changes, disaster resiliency and research. He has been involved as team leader for various research on sustainability including served as Research Manager for Indonesia Green Prosperity Project Evaluation. Recently, engaged as team leader for a research on energy use in the context of disaster in collaboration with University of Loghborough (UK) and Resilient Development Institute. He engaged with research on food security in rural Indonesia recently.
 
 
He completed his PhD in Environmental Sociology from the Australian National University (2015) and completed his Msc. in Poverty Reduction and Development Management from the University of Birmingham in 2000. He affiliates as researcher/lecturer at Postgraduate Program of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Universitas Sumatera Utara, Research Advisor at SDG Center Universitas Lampung, and is a lecturer and mentor for CIPPS (Co-Design for Inclusive Public Space and Services).

Prof. Dr. Rizabuana
Professor Rizabuana is a researcher at Department of Sociology, University of North Sumatra. His research interests are on social changes and palm oil, political sociology, community empowerment and corporate social responsibility.

Dr.Unang Mulkhan
Dr. Unang Mulkhan received his PhD in Business Ethics on ‘exploring ethical issues in the Indonesian Mining Industry’ from the University of Stirling, Scotland in the UK. He holds an MBA in Corporate Strategy and Economic Policy from the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands with his Master Thesis on “Corporate Sustainability Reporting: A Content Analysis of CSR Reporting in Indonesia and the Netherlands”. He also received a post-graduate diploma in Sustainable Local Economic Development from Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has deep knowledge in the area of business and human rights, sustainable development and climate change by involving in several projects such as UN SDGs Diagnostic Acceleration with UNDP in 2022, localizing human rights in the context of SDGs and human rights cities with Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) Sweden and United Cities and Local Governments Asia Pacific (UCLG ASPAC) from 2020 to 2021. He joined a project on green growth in Vietnam supported by CSEAS Kyoto University in Japan.
 
Dr Mulkhan also helps train organizations on fundamental business and human rights principles and recently assisted a series of training and one-on-one Business and Human Rights (BHR) Academy hosted by the UN Development Programme and Foundation for International Human Rights Reporting Standards (FIHRRST).
 
His publication includes: 1) Eco-Justice Perspective and Human Rights-Based Approach to Responsible Business in the Indonesian Mining Industry. Handbook of Business Legitimacy, edited by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG, in 2020; 2) Challenges of the Virtue of Friendship in the Mining Industry: A Case of Multicultural Society of Indonesia. Asian Journal of Business Ethics, 10(1), 19-35, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, in 2021; 3) Ethical and Sustainable Business Organization: New Ways of Thinking and Acting, edited by Langergaard L.L in New Economies for Sustainability. Ethical Economy (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy), Vol 59. Springer, Cham, in 2022; 4) Development and Stakeholders in Encyclopedia of Stakeholder Management, edited by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff and Maria Bonnafus-Boucher, published by Edward Elgar Publisher UK in 2023. 

Dr. Muba Simanihuruk
Has Doctoral Degree in Sociology. His research interest is on poverty, rural development, socio-economic impact of tourism, ethnic studies and democracy.

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​Dr. Muh. Ulil Absor
Dr. Ulil is a Senior Lecturer/Researcher at Master of Social Work at Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta. He eanred Master of Social Research, specializing on Social Development and Policy at the Australian National University (2014) PhD Program at School of Demography, the Australian National University (graduated 2021). His research interest is on social research, social development, social works, social policy, demography, labour and industrial relations. 

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Other Researchers

• ​Dana Tarigan
• ​Mutiara Tria Ningsih 
• ​Riwanda Sembiring
• Rahman Abdel Rouf
• ​Roy Haryanto
• ​Dadang D. Pasaribu
• Sinarisa Sitepu