Egi is the program director of the Centre for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI) – a local NGO focusing on sustainable development issues, especially health system strengthening and health policy advocacy.

He is responsible for the quality of a broad range of efforts related to improving human resources for health, community involvement, policy and budget support, data accountability and good governance.

Egi’s passion for providing quality health services, especially to vulnerable groups and in remote areas, caught fire seven years ago, when he was working as a community health nurse in a remote area.

The huge gap between the quality of health facilities in urban versus rural areas became immediately tangible to him, prompting him to pursue a master’s degree in primary health care and then put his energy into the field of strengthening primary health services.

Now, at CISDI, he manages the Pencerah Nusantara Initiative; this “healthy archipelago” program provides benefits to more than 500 health centers and reaches more than 10 million people throughout the country. Egi hopes that exchanging ideas and experiences with EI Fellows from other countries will help him better understand equity issues and learn about innovative ways to reduce inequities in health services.