United In Diversity

for Partnership at UID Learning Hub Jakarta

United In Diversity Foundation (UID), or Yayasan Upaya Indonesia Damai, is an Indonesian not-for-profit organization that aims to build trust and inspire leaders from the tri-sector (Government, Business, and Civil Society) to co-create a happier, more sustainable future for all. UID was founded in 2003 and serves as an educational platform that brings together the tri-sector in a multi-stakeholder learning process.

For 22 years, UID has strengthened leadership across diverse demographic contexts and profiles, building a better Indonesia through several flagship programs with a wide range of public, private, and civil society partners.

Send your CV and cover letter to: [email protected]
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(Subject: Intern - Partnership)
Application Deadline 17 June 2026 (5 PM - GMT+7)

For more information, please refer to the flyer below. Best of luck to you!
This position is office-based at UID Learning Hub Jakarta.

The most important leadership skill isn't taught in business school.

It’s the ability to pause. To ask: "Why am I really making this choice?"

In our work across government, business, and civil society, we see the same pattern. The loudest voices win. The fastest reactions dominate. The ego drives the bus.

But systemic change requires a different muscle.
It requires turning inward before acting outward. It requires mastering the ego so we can see the whole system, not just our reflection in it.

Swipe through for a moment of reflection. 👉|

Food Safety, Everyone’s Business

Today, on World Food Safety Day, the global community rallies under a simple yet vital truth: food safety is a shared responsibility. It spans from the smallholder farmer prepping the soil to the local vendor handling transportation, right down to the consumer at the table.

In Indonesia, this conversation has never been more urgent as we transition into the nationwide ex*****on of the Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG) program.

Providing nutritious meals to millions of school children daily is a phenomenal step toward eliminating stunting and boosting cognitive potential. However, from a systems thinking perspective, nutrition and safety are inseparable. A meal cannot be truly nutritious unless it is unconditionally safe.

Given the massive decentralized logistics of the MBG program, ensuring food safety requires building robust local ecosystems. This means establishing effective food control regulations, guaranteeing absolute access to clean water in school kitchens, training MSMEs in stringent food safety management, and creating agile emergency preparedness systems.

We believe that a happier, more sustainable future for the next generation relies on a reliable tri-sector alliance. Governments, the private sector, civil society, and local communities must collaborate closely to ensure our children receive meals that are both life-giving and entirely safe.

Let’s look beyond the quantity of plates served, and fiercely protect the quality and hygiene of the system behind them.

More than a decade after the Paris Agreement - the landmark international treaty aimed at limiting global temperature increase - was signed, the world continues to pump out greenhouse gases at a record pace.

These emissions mostly come from burning fossil fuels, superheating our planet in often disastrous ways.

The good news? Experts say humanity still has time to turn things around.

But it will take all of us.

Governments and businesses, because of their size and influence, must bear most of the burden. The world's wealthiest have a critical role too in addressing their carbon footprint — just 10% of the global population is responsible for nearly half of all emissions.

But there are things we all can do to live a more climate-friendly life.

Ahead of , swipe to explore how you can act .

Source: https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day

Between May 10–15, 2026, the Center for Future Knowledge – Happy Digital Transformation (CFK-HDT) team embarked on a field visit to Ngada, East Nusa Tenggara. In line with our commitment to systems leadership, we engaged in a sensing journey to listen, feel, and deeply understand the socio-ecological realities on the ground.

This journey builds on the Ostara Program and will continue conversations about transforming Indonesia’s food systems through a bioregenerative economy approach rooted in agroforestry.

In Ngada, more than 70% of the population relies on agriculture. Yet, the reality on the ground is highly complex. Communities are facing severe modern pressures: escalating land degradation and unpredictable climate patterns that diminish crop yields year after year.

Despite the immense global potential of Ngada’s distinctive Arabica coffee, we mapped several structural, systemic challenges:
•Post-Harvest Gaps: Limited processing capacity that leaves coffee quality suboptimal.
•Market Exploitation: Weak market access, leaving farmers dependent on middlemen with low bargaining power.
•Financial Fragmentation: Lack of access to long-term capital for smallholders.
•Institutional Cracks: Village economic institutions that require strengthening to manage the value chain collectively, transparently, and inclusively.

Amid these challenges, we witnessed an incredible counter-energy: farmers eager to innovate, village chiefs ready to activate local policies, and industry actors determined to bring Ngada coffee to the global stage.

To anchor this energy into long-term impact, the United In Diversity (UID) Foundation officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ngada Regency Government. Together, we are committing to a sustainable economic transformation that leverages local potential, beginning with a coffee agroforestry blueprint.

Systems change does not happen from a distance. It begins with the courage to be present, to listen deeply, and to co-create a shared future from the ground up. This is not the destination—it is only the beginning of a long journey toward public welfare.

Co-Creating the Future of Higher Education and Innovation: Welcoming Telkom University to KITA.

We are thrilled to announce that the United In Diversity (UID) Foundation, alongside Politeknik Gadjah Tunggal, has officially forged a strategic partnership with Telkom University by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Bandung, marking their entry into the Knowledge Innovation Technology Alliance (KITA).

KITA is a cross-sector collaboration platform designed to unite industry, experts, and global universities. In an era of rapid technological advancement, this alliance shares a conviction: technological and scientific development must remain deeply anchored in the balance between humanity, nature, and spirituality, in alignment with the Tri Hita Karana philosophy.

With Telkom University onboarding as a strategic partner, our institutions are prioritizing deep knowledge exchanges and joint research to help transform higher education in Indonesia. To transition these collaborative visions into reality, a dedicated Working Committee will guide, implement, and scale these scientific innovations for the ultimate goal of public welfare.

When institutions align under a shared purpose, we move closer to a happier, more sustainable future for all.

The Seed Subak Initiative is a mindful step toward ensuring that Subak does not remain a relic of the past, but continues to breathe as a vital part of our collective future. Because what is growing here is not only for Bali; it is a beacon of hope for how tradition, community, and nature can once again move in perfect harmony. If this story resonates with you, we invite you to help share, support, and nurture these seeds of change together.

🎬 Watch the full video update on our Subak documentation project by this link https://youtu.be/D06jQwNrDpQ?si=RFzQDkK84r_5CsWw

Seed of Subak: Reimagining Regenerative Future Amid a world increasingly challenged by food crises, climate change...

The world is not facing small challenges — and no country or organization can solve them alone.

SDG 17 reminds us that sustainable development can only happen through partnership: governments, the private sector, civil society, and communities working together.

At UID, we believe collaboration is how impact begins.

Because development is not about who moves fastest, but about ensuring no one is left behind.

Let’s partner for impact.

Did you know?
The facts are a wake-up call for our collective consciousness:
🌳 We lose 10 million hectares of forest annually—larger than the size of Iceland.
🛡️ Biodiversity is our shield; healthy ecosystems prevent pathogens from spreading rapidly.
🦋 One million species are currently at risk of extinction, threatening the very web of life.

At United In Diversity (UID), we believe that the health of our planet reflects our "interior condition" as leaders and citizens. To heal the Earth, we must first shift our awareness from taking to regenerating.

This Mother Earth Day, let’s stop just "knowing" and start "sensing" what the planet needs from us.