Endang Ucu Rosita S.Sos, Board Member

Sabilar Rasyad Burhansyah, Board Member

Hartanto, S.E., Board Member

DR Hj. Ernawati Koesmayadi. Dra. M.Sp, Head of the Insan Hamdani Foundation

  • Ikbal, Co-Director

    I am just a small spark trying to bring all the sparks together to shine in this world.

  • Ginan, Co-Director

    This silence is too suppressed. Stigma and dicrimination are very strong against people who use drugs and people living with HIV/AIDS. As as a recovering drug user and person living with HIV, I have a natural desire to make change because it is our meaningful involvement that will make significant change for problems of discrimination. There will not be change unless people living with HIV and drug users take a role in facing our own problems.

  • Dr. Mel, Staff Advisor

    After being involved with Rumah Cemara for about four years, I see that HIV/AIDS is not merely a virus or sickness, but like a ray of light, revealing that behind the virus exists social problems regarding poverty, drugs, commercial sex, and societal stigma and discrimination. I am most inspired by Mother Teresa, and want to become like Mother Teresa. I am someone who is silly, simple, enthusiastic, and pursuing my dreams.

  • Pak Avi, Spiritual Advisor

    There is a bright future beyond the stigma, discrimination, harassment and ignorance showed towards drug users and towards people living with HIV/AIDS, and their families. This hope has brought me to find, lift, expose and spread the light of blessings, forgiveness and hope from God. I have found a new, big family in this caring community that makes me want to be a part of their efforts. Working with Rumah Cemara is like a light deep in my heart that illuminates my life, not just from the concept that “what you share will be returned to you”, but from a true spirit of hope for future generations.

  • Ojon, Finance Officer

    Every single person is the same in terms of their rights, pride and dignity. What makes a drug addict, a person living with HIV, or another person so different? I have become involved with this issue in order to eliminate the distance created by people who see a difference between themselves and people living with HIV and drug users.

  • Adym, Finance Officer

    By becoming directly involved in these issues, I hope that I can decrease the stigma that still exists around HIV/AIDS and drug use.

  • Amin, Data Manager

    I grow tired of my HIV status.  Fears constantly shadow me so that it feels like my life flows without purpose.  But I know a hopeful light will come in an unexpected way, and maybe now is the beginning of that light. I know that if I help with sincerity, I will get help from all directions.

  • Tessa, General Staff

    Being open is the start of a change. A change to cope with pain, fear and grief. People living with HIV and drug users need self-openess to cope with life. I am not the only person in this world with this problem, including HIV. We need to have a strong will in order to achieve a change.  Change begins from within ourselves.

  • Decky, General Staff

    What happens to drug users is that the issues they face always appear to grow from year to year, just like technology. As someone who is involved in and cares about this issue, I believe I should think of many ideas to better understand what drug users really need in order to heal.

  • Acil, Coordinator of Peer Services Unit

    Drug users and people living with HIV must become directly involved in the problems of drugs and HIV, because realistically it is they who are directly affected and know the problems themselves.  The man who helps another man helps himself, because life is to share.
     

  • Erywn, Treatment Center Coordinator

    People living with HIV/AIDS are also people, and we have an opportunity to do our part in the development of a prosperous life. I am sure that by helping my peers who are drug users and people living with HIV I will also help myself. If we underestimate people around us, then people around us also will underestimate us, therefore we must respect people for who they are. Keep spirit!

  • Donna, Treatment Center Staff

    I am grateful for all I have achieved in my life, and I will keep on giving to others. This is something that I must do everyday, whether it is for myself or for others, and I will keep on trying and progressing. I aim to use my time effectively in doing whatever I can do for myself and others.  I understand that our community has always been associated with stigma and discrimination, and therefore we who can understand the situation must take action. I help others in order to help myself.

  • Ricky, Treatment Center Staff

    If I do not help people living with HIV, or drug addicts, who will? I do not want to see stigma against people living with HIV/AIDS and people with addiction, because those people still have a future and the same abilities as others!

  • Ade, Treatment Center Staff

    Drug users are still underestimated by the government and by society. If we do not help addicts and people with HIV/AIDS, I do not know who will. Working together with the community will strengthen drug users to avoid relapse, achieve recovery, and live a better life.

Odon Bayu, Treatment Center Staff

As a recovering drug addict, I know the safest place is a positive peer community; supporting each other with our experiences, strengths, and hopes.  Drug addicts also can become productive members of society who are useful to others.

  • Jimi, HIV/AIDS Support Coordinator

    Knowledge, willingness and ability are the three things that can change someone’s life. Because of those three words, I am empowered. Because of help from my friends, I have the knowledge of my own condition, I have the willingness to face it, and I am able to cope with it on daily basis. I don’t want what has happened to me to happen to other people, therefore, I happily help other human beings by sharing my knowledge and my strength. Because the right to life belongs to every person.

  • Rany, HIV/AIDS Support Staff

    Hope can never be extinguished. I feel healthier and stronger when I help others because I know that, as someone directly affected by the AIDS epidemic, my involvement is very meaningful part of the solution. I have always been healthy, and admire my peers who died too young, because even if short they lived a meaningful life, making the most of what they were given.

  • Adhiet, HIV/AIDS Support Staff

    I do not give up easily in life’s journey because naturally, by helping others I will increase my own strength.I am proud to live this idea.

  • Faisyal, HIV/AIDS Support Staff

    I thank God that I have still been given time until now, to make life more meaningful for myself and others. As a drug user and a person living with HIV, I feel that the movements made in recent years around these issues have not been maximal, and that the rights of drug users and people living with HIV are still often violated. We need a very significant change in policy-making, towards policies that will effectively address the problems of drug users and people living with HIV. I am grateful to be part of this movement.

  • Bogiem, HIV/AIDS Support Staff

    I believe one day I will understand suffering as something meaningful for my life. Just as the environment around me affects me, in reality I can also affect the environment around me, and can take a position on this issue. Life has a special significance, especially in situations of suffering or sorrow. Keep spirit!

  • Isye, HIV/AIDS Support Staff

    My motto is “Staying Alive” because I care about the situation of HIV/AIDS, and I am trying to make positive changes as a positive woman myself. In my work, I love finding reasons to smile, and socializing.

Ari, Community Outreach Coordinator

Although I am living with HIV I can still do many positive and meaningful things for other people and for myself. I am a recovering drug addict but I have been able to transform my addictive attitude to be used towards projects that are positive and helpful.  Because I am somebody who is directly affected and also has many close friends who are drug addicts, by helping others I know I am able to help myself.

  • Yudha, Community Outreach Coordinator

    Helping my friends who are addicts, in terms of changing their behavior, is the reason I work at Rumah Cemara. As a recovering addict and as someone who has already had intense experiences, working at Rumah Cemara makes me feel more integrated with the cause, more unified with the world, more like a king over myself, more spontaneous, and more capable of absorbing meaning from all I’ve felt in the past. Therefore, with that strength I believe I can help my fellow addicts towards improving their daily lives.We must stop stigma and discrimination against addicts because addicts have the same rights as others.

  • Dehan, Community Outreach Staff

    Even until now, most of society has closed their eyes and ears in ignorance regarding the problem of HIV/AIDS.  Maybe in the eyes of society this infectious disease is still very disgraceful.  We, as people living with HIV, must give significant attention and concern to the increasing number of HIV cases.  I feel that stigma and discrimination are still thick in our social environment. Sometimes it is difficult to open the eyes and ears of the public who still do not acknowledge the problem of HIV/AIDS in our country. We need to take an active role in tackling HIV/AIDS in Indonesia.

  • Elly, Community Outreach Staff

    The community for drug users and people living with HIV is my strength, because I can help others who are drug users and living with HIV. I feel empowered working here.

  • Erna, Community Outreach Staff

    I have let it live in my body and flow in my blood, but I am not going to let it take control of my life. By helping others I can add to the spirit of life and make my own life more meaningful again. Life is for sharing.

  • Fian, Community Outreach Staff

    We must keep high spirits! I don’t want people in future generations to become victims like me. As a drug user and a person living with HIV, at least I can help to prevent more cases of addiction and HIV.  By decreasing the harmful effects of risky behavior, I am trying do my part in facing and finishing this problem.

  • Hendra, Community Outreach Staff

    As a recovering drug addict, I am proud to help my peers by working at Rumah Cemara, because I already know what it feels like to be a drug addict, and that is a very heavy feeling that disrupts your entire life.

  • Tika, Community Outreach Staff

    Belief without effort is useless. Stigma and discrimination towards drug users and people living with HIV still exists, coming from the general public, the medical community, and people in the government. By taking part in efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS I find satisfaction knowing that drug users and people living with HIV can work creatively and socialize as ways to reduce stigma and discrimination.

  • Omi, Community Outreach Staff

    I have experienced many ups and downs in my life with my addiction, because I was powerless under the limitations of my addiction. So I decided to do something to change for the better with all of my weaknesses and strengths, and live more usefully. I want to help other people in my situation because when I help others, it also helps me to become a better person, and I am more aware of all the weaknesses and strengths in me.

  • Nurul, Community Outreach Nurse

    I want to help because I am sad to see people in need and I want to help them recover.  I want to help because I don’t want them to relapse or fall again after having recovered.  I am always cheerful, even if I have heavy personal problems myself.

  • Bambang, Community Outreach Staff

    I have lived spiritedly with HIV/AIDS, and I want to help because I have the same problem as members of this community.

  • Hasyim, Community Outreach Staff

    I want to provide support, strength and hope to people living with HIV/AIDS and drug users so that they can achieve a better quality of life. I want to help because I am living with HIV/AIDS and I am a recovering drug user, and know how lonely it can feel without somebody there for you.

  • Inggit, Community Outreach Staff

    I want to help people with HIV/AIDS so that they can be empowered and do not get hurt by stigma and discrimination from society. I have many friends who are drug users or living with HIV/AIDS, and so I am naturally led to want to help them.

  • Erick, Community Outreach Staff

    I live humbly with what God has given me, without burdensome regrets.  I want to help because I know that a person living with HIV/AIDS or a drug addict goes through life with a heavy heart, and needs support from others.

  • Zilenk, Community Outreach Staff

    The reason why I want to work with Rumah Cemara until now is because I want to help family and friends who have a problem with drugs or the impacts from the misuse of drugs.  Too many of my friends have died due to the influence of drugs.  I want to help my friends who are still alive so that their quality of life becomes better, even though they are still struggling with drugs, and to help decrease the number of deaths of drug abuse victims.

  • Yudi, Resource Mobilization Unit Coordinator

    Because I value my life as truly meaningful, for the rest of my life I will be helping others. In helping others, I have found myself!

  • Dicky, Public Relations Coordinator

    We cannot be silent when it comes to ensuring our basic rights as human beings, especially if we are people living with HIV/AIDS and drug users.  I am a person who is affected by both of these conditions, and fighting for our rights is a miracle in my own life. I promise to continue fighting until change occurs.

  • Bonang, Public Relations Staff

    I am no longer frustrated but rather really confident with my current life, and I never give up on anything. My spirit is very sociable, and involved with a community of people in the same boat as I am. Be a punk!

  • Kishi, Public Relations Staff

    Strength is not about feeling strong. You may lose faith, you may want to end your life, but there's a strength in you that lies deep within you. I see strength when I see people with HIV/AIDS; it is every moment they live with their illness. The people in Rumah Cemara have always been so inspiring. In spite of the flaws and limitations, they glow with their unique characters. Being at Rumah Cemara, I learn how to appreciate this life, share it, and embrace others. The first time I met them, I thought they couldn't be my friends - they are my brothers and sisters.

  • Adit, Grantwriting Manager

    I believe everything happens for a reason. I have done all the bad things in life, and now it’s time for giving something good.

  • Hendy, Entrepreneurship Staff

    I give thanks for all that I have today. Even if I am marginalized I still have a meaning to and vision for my life.  I try to change the vision of stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV and drug users. Time will answer all of these realities.  It is not possible for us to live alone. We are all related in this life. Therefore I try to help, and care about what I have experienced, so we do not forget about our brothers, sisters, and friends.  I encourage those who are in the same boat as me - drug users and people with HIV - to become involved so they can live longer.  I am grateful for this opportunity to change both myself and others in a positive way. We all have different perspectives, but can use them for one shared purpose.

  • Wahyu, Entrepreneurship Staff

    I want to recover, I want to be happy, I want success, because I am the same as all other people, and I am a drug addict. I can feel what addicts or people with HIV/AIDS feel with their addiction or their sickness.

  • Pepeng, Entrepreneurship Staff

    I want to work with Rumah Cemara because here I feel safe and able to develop myself in a safe and comfortable community of people who share the same background, people living with HIV/AIDS and drug addicts. I also want to help fellow people living with HIV/AIDS and fellow addicts because it makes me proud of the life I live.