INTERCULTURAL

LEADERS

I Gede Pandu Wirawan

Summer Schools

Pandu is a Master Student at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, majoring in International Community Development. He is one of the recipients of U.S. Department of State’s scholarship, the Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) in 2012 that brought 20 Indonesian future leaders to learn religious pluralism and democracy in the USA. He puts his dedication and passion into activities related to community development, interfaith, religious diversity and tolerance through his service in many youth empowerment activities. One of his dreams is to create peace and better understanding in Indonesia through interfaith dialogue therefore, he and his friends initiated a movement called “Youth Interfaith Community (YIC)”which aims to create and encourage youth in Indonesia to be more aware of the issues such as diversity, especially in religious diversity and tolerance. In addition, He is also one of founders Cinta Indonesia (Committee for Interfaith Tolerance in Indonesia). Moreover, He is one of 150 youths from around the world attended Youth Event in Global Forum UNAOC in Vienna Austria, Speaker in Youth Forum Community of Democracies in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia and one of 100 youth from around the world attended UNAOC-EF Summer School 2013 in New York, USA. In 2018, he received Allison Sudradjat Prize from Australian Government.