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| Name: | Abdur Razzaq Lubis |
| Email: | arlubis@mandailing.org | | Bio: | Abdur-Razzaq Lubis is a sixth generation 'Malaysian Mandailing', whose forebears migrated to the peninsula in the aftermath of the Padri War (1816-37). He is currently on a research project in Indonesia as a an Asian Public Intellectual (API) Fellow sponsored by the Nippon Foundation. Project title is: Politics of Indentity Construction: The Case of the Mandailing People. Since 1998,
- Project Leader, research project on Mandailing migration, governance
and cultural heritage, funded by Toyota Foundation ,
- Malaysian Representative, Sumatra Heritage Trust
- Malaysian Representative, Islamic
Foundation of Ecology and Environmental Studies
Since 1999,
- Unesco-Leap Site Manager, Community Participation in Waqf Revitalization,
which won an Unesco Asia-Pacific Special Achievement AwardSince 2000,
- Malaysian Representative, Yayasan Pengkajian Budaya Mandailing
(Mandailing Studies Foundation)
- Malaysian Representative, Yayasan Bindu Matogu, a Mandailing environmental
NGOSince 1980's, a member of the World Murabitun Movement and a murid of Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi al-Murabit. |
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| Name: | Khoo Salma Nasution |
| Email: | salma@mandailing.org | Bio: | Khoo Salma Nasution is a fifth generation Straits Chinese or Baba Nyonya.
She was installed into the Nasution clan in 1994. Her 'Mandailing father' is Dr. Rizali H. Nasution, the President of Sumatra Heritage Trust (Badan Warisan Sumatra). * Honorary Secretary of Penang Heritage Trust since 1989
* Co-founder of the Asia & West Pacific Network for Urban Conservation in 1991 and currently the editor
* Project Manager, Syed Alatas Mansion, a pilot restoration project in Penang state (1993-4)
* Coordinator, Sustainable Penang Initiative (1997-99), a participatory approach to sustainable development planning
* Co-researcher Mandailing migration, governance and cultural heritage, Toyota Foundation
* Unesco-Leap Site Manager, Community Participation in Waqf Revitalization (1999-present) |
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| Name: | Peter Zabielskis |
| Email: | peterz@mandailing.org | | Bio: | Peter Zabielskis is currently completing his PhD in Cultural Anthropology as a Fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. His dissertation is based on over two years of field research in Penang, Malaysia on issues of housing and heritage preservation. He received his M.A. and M.Phil in anthropology and a Certificate in Culture in Media (ethnographic film) from New York University. His B.A. was in art and philosophy from Oberlin College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, his research in Malaysia was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Asian Cultural Council. He has also held fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and worked as a freelance lecturer in art history. He teaches in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science in New York and as an assistant in the Department of Anthropology at New York University. |
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| Name: | Drs. Zulkifli B. Lubis | | Email: | bl64@hotmail.com | Bio: | Drs. Zulkifli Lubis was born in Kotanopan the the residency of Madina (Mandailing-Natal) on 23 January 1964. He received his primary and secondary education
in Kotanopan, before moving to Medan in 1983 to further his studies in anthropology at the University of North Sumatra (USU). Since 1990, a member of the teaching staff. In 1996, he completed his masters (magister) in anthropological ecology from the University of Indonesia (UI). He was selected as a model lecturer in 1998. Drs. Zulkifli is a member of the Indonesian Association of Antropologists. He is the secretary of Yayasan Bindu Matogu, a Mandailing environmental NGO based in Medan, and a board member of Yayasan Pengkajian Budaya Mandailing (Mandailing Studies Foundation). In addition to being a lecturer, Drs. Zulkifli is active in research work especially in the field of ecology, environment and culture. |
| Name: | Maurizio Farhan Ferrari | | Email: | farhan@mandailing.org | | Bio: | Maurizio
Farhan Ferrari was born in Italy, where he became an active
member of the peace movement in the early 1980s. He spent five
years (1985-1990) as
a volunteer in rural development projects and as yoga instructor with an
Indian organisation, Ananda Marga, in India, Philippines,
and Malaysia. He
joined Sahabat Alam Malaysia in Penang through an internship programme
between 1991 and 1996, where he carried out field work on environment and
development issues and wrote articles for local newspapers
and magazines.
Among the networking activities, he helped manage the secretariat of the
Asia-Pacific Peoples' Environment Network (APPEN) from 1991
to 1994 and he
managed the international secretariat of the Global Anti-Golf Movement
(GAG'M) from 1993 to 1996. He returned to Europe in 1996, where he joined
the Forest Peoples Programme (UK) the following year. He moved
back to
Malaysia in December 2000.
Academically,
Farhan holds a Bachelor of Science (1999) and a Diploma on
Environment and Development (1996) from The Open University
(UK) and a
Diploma in Trade and Accounting (1982) from the Institute of
Trade and
Accounting in Rovereto, Italy. He is currently carrying out field
work in
Southeast Asia for a PhD at the Open University. |
| Name: | Ionescu Mihail Florin |
| Email: | mikefi@telkom.net | | Bio: | Mihail Florin Ionescu, who is fondly known as Mike, fell in love with Mandailing when he visited it in 1998 and have decided to dedicate a part of his life for the promotion of Mandailing built heritage. Mike is a conservation architect from Germany.
During his long career, Mike was an Architect and IT Consultant in Europe. He developed CAD applications according to DIN, ISO & SIA Standards and implemented a system for Architecture Photogrametry.
Mike was also involved in the restoration of heritage buildings in Europe.
In the early 1990's, Mike came to Penang and explored Sumatra. Enthralled by the beauty of the Mandailing homeland, culture and architecture, he decided to stay.
In 1999, Mike was the survey coordinator for traditional Mandailing Architecture in three habitats in "Mandailing Julu" (Upper Mandailing). In the same year, he became guest lecturer at the Architecture Department at the North Sumatra University (USU).
He is now the resource person for Mandailing architecture at Yayasan Pengkajian
Budaya Mandailing (Mandailing Studies Foundation). |
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