Founders & Leadership / Utomo Institute
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Research discipline. Institutional understanding. Practical leadership.
Febriwan Rajab is Co-Founder & Executive Director of Utomo Institute. His professional background spans managing research, studying public institutions and development, and leading a company—experience that connects the questions an organization asks with the work needed to address them.
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Professional perspective
As Research Manager at Cirus Surveyors Group from 2016 to 2022, Febriwan worked at the intersection of research and its practical organization. His wider portfolio includes national surveys on social and political development, regional economic and political studies, and project management for electoral research and campaigns.
His research experience includes work with Tim Visi Indonesia 2033, ERDI and research groups associated with the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Universitas Indonesia. The subjects range from regional autonomy and legal development to social and political planning. This background brings attention to the institutional and local conditions in which decisions are made.
His experience also includes serving as President Director of PT Empat Cemerlang Bersama from 2022. At Utomo Institute, his combination of research management and business leadership helps shape the institute's direction alongside its Founder and connects that direction with the work of specialist experts: understanding context, organizing work and keeping a clear connection between inquiry and decisions.
Selected experience
2022–present
PT Empat Cemerlang Bersama
2016–2022
Cirus Surveyors Group
2015–2016
ERDI
2013–2016
Centre of Election Political Party, FISIP
2012–2014
Tim Visi Indonesia 2033
2012–2013
Social and Political Development Masterplan Working Group, FISIP UI
Selected research themes
2012–2013
Research on a masterplan for social and political development.
2013
Evaluation of a decade of regional autonomy in Indonesia.
2016
Research on the Indonesian Legal Development Index.
2014–2019
National surveys examining social and political development issues in Indonesia.
2014–2022
A portfolio of surveys on electoral, economic and political issues across districts, cities and provinces, alongside project management at regional and national levels.
Academic foundations
2007–2013
Universitas Indonesia
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
2014–2015
Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris
Graduate study in political geography, culture and heritage at the Master 1 level.
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