Strengthen policy advocacy in Indonesia and beyond by addressing the inadequacy of political and law infrastructure to translate public support to a change.
Our Goals
Why?
We focus on evidence-based campaigns to generate more support from the public by cultivating awareness and change in perspectives towards animal exploitation, and as an entry to future advocacy on policy and law reform that emphasizes on animal well-being.
This strategy was developed based on insights we generated over our decade long activism, from which we identified some gaps in the animal advocacy scene in Indonesia:
- The lack of grassroots mass-organizing efforts to support campaigns targeting institutional policy change.
- Limited support, skepticism, and distrust of the general public because animal advocacy is perceived as an abstract, elitist agenda that doesn’t intersect with other social struggles.
- Limited understanding of speciesism and systemic oppression within the animal advocacy movement.
To address these challenges, Strive is guided by three core pillars:
- Produce investigations that highlight normalised abuse, which evoke public attention and awareness towards unjust practices in animal-dependent industries.
- Mainstreaming animal advocacy as local and regional geopolitical issues, by collaborating with other organizations and foreign experts to address the inadequacy of legal and political infrastructures that can channel public support into change.
- Conduct counterfactual actions based on situational analysis to challenge the status quo and change current institution standards and regulations that influence the well-being of animals, including but not limited to pressure campaigns.
Our Team
Dian Pitaloka (She/Her)
Co-Founder | Program Lead
A Jill of all trades, Dian has eight years of experience across various roles in the vegan and animal advocacy scene, supporting multiple local and international evidence-based interventions. She is particularly skilled in open source investigative research and strategic planning.
Elio Bastian (He/They)
Co-Founder | Investigation Lead
Elio Bastian has been an investigator for over five years and counting. His work focuses on animals farmed for consumption and wildlife used in various industries. Using the knowledge from past experiences, he is now managing the investigation department at STRIVE to help our team and other activists to conduct strategic and successful investigations.
Sedaya Piecarane (He/Him)
Co-Founder | Operations & MEL Lead
A collective-coordinated-actions believer and MEL enthusiast
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As a nonprofits group, any amount of money you donate to us would support us to conduct investigations, running campaigns, advocating for a better policy
