Yuyun ISMAWATI is the Director and co-founder of BALIFOKUS Foundation, a Bali based environmental non-governmental organisation concern on urban environmental management, which she established in June 2000 with couple of friends.

Promoting sustainable development is one of the missions of her organisation. Multi-stakeholders and participatory approaches are used as tools to find appropriate solutions on urban environmental management issues.

Yuyun ISMAWATI is one of the Indonesia Ashoka Fellow and focal point of GAIA (Global Alliance for Incincerator Alternatives/Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance) in Indonesia.

Promoting decentralized environmental services and toxic issues are her recent activities.

She holds Environmental Engineering Bachelor degree obtained from Bandung Institute of Technology (1990), Indonesia.