FNU Samintang
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Climate Catalysts Indonesia
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Samintang is an environmental advocate with experience in multi-stakeholder projects and participatory research. Growing up in East Luwu, the world’s third-largest nickel-producing region, she saw firsthand how extraction and inequality affected local communities and the environment. These experiences inspired her to co-create Climate Catalysts Indonesia (CCI), a youth-led organization that seeks to support climate-vulnerable communities through environmental education, citizen science, and dialogues on the resacralization of nature. Through CCI, she works alongside local communities to foster ecological awareness, share knowledge, and explore practical ways to care for both people and the natural world.
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Samintang is an environmental advocate with over 10 years of experience in multi-stakeholder projects and participatory research. She founded Climate Catalysts, a youth-led organization empowering vulnerable communities through non-violent direct action, citizen science, and spiritual ecology. Active in over 10 countries across Asia-Pacific, North America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, Climate Catalysts has reached 4,500+ people, mobilized 12,900 youth voices, and developed award-winning interfaith and youth-centered climate initiatives. She co-founded Tarbiyah for Climate with MASE Italy, fostering intergenerational knowledge transmission and environmental cosmology. She developed the first-ever bilingual augmented reality adaptation of the 14th-century longest epic worldwide Sureq La Galigo, busy board educational games for people with intellectual disabilities, and lesson-plan-based materials for learners from early childhood through K-12. She is the Top 30 Under 30 for Environmental Education Worldwide, Project Green Challenge Champion, Acure Green Award Honoree, TEKNOFEST Silver Medalist, Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund Grantee, and UNDP Youth4Climate Laureate.
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