Tri Mumpuni

Mumpuni is executive director of IBEKA (also known as the People Centered Business and Economic Initiative), an Indonesian nongovernmental organization that empowers villagers and marginalized groups in Indonesia, East Timor, and the Philippines. She promotes the replacement of diesel-based power generation with renewable energy through interactions with key stakeholders such as Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and its state-owned electricity company and helped persuade the Indonesian government to issue its 1999 policy on independent power producers. An agricultural engineer, she has received training in energy, environment, and sustainable-development issues from numerous institutions over the course of two decades.

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Articles by Tri Mumpuni

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
16 July 2013

Expanding energy access, improving women's lives

Dipak GyawaliKalpana SharmaTri Mumpuni

In the developing world, women and their families often struggle  because they lack access to modern energy. Women's days are taken up with  menial tasks; children quit school because they can't study at night;  everyone's health suffers.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
16 July 2013
Asia

Women and energy: A package deal

Tri Mumpuni

As this Roundtable has established, women shoulder most of the burdens associated with poor energy access in the developing world.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
24 June 2013
Asia

Local resources, local benefit

Tri Mumpuni
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
30 May 2013
Asia

Energizing villages, women, families

Tri Mumpuni

By many measures, Indonesia is making significant economic progress. According to the World Bank, 17.8 percent of Indonesians lived below the poverty line in 2006, but this number has now decreased to 12 percent.