Founder and Executive Director of Emancipate Indonesia
Since 2010, Margianta has been engaged in local and international youth networks related to development issues. Margianta’s expertise is overarching, from political economy, global health, human rights, and youth participation at the core of his interest.
In 2015, he became the Co-Initiator and Spokesperson for the Youth Movement for FCTC, focusing on tobacco control for and by youth from a global health perspective. Then, in 2017, he became the Founder and Executive Director of Emancipate Indonesia, a non-profit organization with focus on modern slavery and young workers’ rights as his follow-up initiative from Student Opposing Slavery Summit in USA. In 2019-2020, Margianta joined the UNFPA Youth Advisory Panel to promote youth participation in development issues, particularly on gender and Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).
Margianta has also been invited to numerous international forums as a speaker, such as the ASEAN Youth Conference, World Health Assembly, Leading Minds Conference, and One Young World in the Netherlands, where Margianta spoke in front of almost 2.000 people from 193 countries and were introduced on stage by Terry Crews, a Hollywood #MeToo activist and actor.
Recently during the COVID-19 pandemic, Margianta has hosted talk show and podcasts, raised donations, organized online campaigns on health and human rights, as well as helping the UN Youth Envoy, WHO, and UNICEF to facilitate their #CopingWithCOVID webinar series where he spoke alongside UN Secretary General, chief of WHO and UNICEF, and Queen of Belgium. Until today, Margianta is still actively voicing his aspirations at the national to international level.