First i would like to thank you to Emir Hartato for the nomination. I really appreciate and happy to take this chance to become HOT Voting Member. With this diary, i would like to give my statement for several question related that:

How did you become involved in HOT

I began involved in HOT after i graduated from University. At September 2012, HOT Indonesia open opportunity to became Trainer and involved in their SD4CP Project. Not only this if the first time I involved in HOT but also this is my first time to involved in OpenStreetMap. I began to teach local government and community about the benefit of open source software and OpenStreetMap related to Disaster Management. Not only training I also help to support local government, community and creating training material with team. From Septermber 2012 - Present, I’m lucky that i’m still working in HOT Indonesia and learn many experience here.

Could you tell us about your involvement in HOT, mapping and/or humanitarian response?

Since i became the HOT Staff in September 2012, i involved in many activities and projects here, from training, creating materials, mapping event, activation, etc. Right now i also involved in Activation Working Group since i attended the Activation Sprint and HOT Summit. My current humanitarian response i think was when EQ in Afghanistan. I joined the activation for EQ in Afghanistan to implement the skill that i learn from Activation Workshop in Jakarta as Data and Validation role.

What does HOT mean to you?

In my opinion, HOT means disaster response and mapping. Without HOT, i wont know how useful OpenStreetMap in terms of Humanitarian Response and i wont know that you can help save people live or support disaster only with armchair mapping. HOT also the one who bring OpenStreetMap Indonesia community begin to growth in Indonesia.

Why do you want to be a voting member?

For the sake of HOT Sustainability i believe. I want to help HOT stronger and stable and i want to participate in HOT a lot.

As a voting member of HOT what do you see as your most important responsibility?

To participate and to make everyone (especially in Indonesia) know about the existence of HOT in terms of disaster response.

How do you plan to be involved in HOT as a voting member?

I will continue to involved in working group, activation and other HOT activities if possible. And as a voting member i will give my vote when HOT need some decisions.

What do you see HOT’s greatest challenge and how do you plan to help HOT meet that challenge?

I think the greatest challenge is to make HOT recognize in Indonesia and other countries as humanitarian organization. And my plan to meet that challenge are to provide support (direct or not direct) to government in term of disaster management. When we give a support to government, they will recognize that HOT exist and hopefully they will tell to their colleague about HOT. Another HOT challenge is about the economic development. HOT mostly involved in humanitarian response but i think we need to reach the other side of HOT tagline, which is economic development. I want to see and find the opportunity for HOT in terms of economic development.

That’s all my statement and may the force be with HOT! :)