Yayasan Healthy Planet Indonesia
(HePI)
HePI integrates conservation and healthcare through community-based projects, breaking the cycle of poverty and deforestation. We equip forest communities to become guardians of their environment, fostering healthy people and healthy forests.
About Us
Healthy Planet Indonesia (HePI)
Was founded in 2020 by Dr. Hotlin Ompusunggu, a dentist and conservationist dedicated to breaking the cycle between poverty and illegal logging through healthcare. After years of successful conservation efforts in Borneo with her co-founded organization Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), Hotlin returned to her homeland, Sumatra, to continue her mission of proving that communities and forests can thrive together.
Our Programs
At Healthy Planet Indonesia (HePI), we aim to break the cycle where poor human health and ecosystem degradation feed into each other. Through community-designed solutions, we promote both forest and human health, tackling the core drivers of illegal logging.
The Batang Toru Ecosystem
Our efforts are focused on the Batang Toru Ecosystem, which spans 141,749 hectares of primary forest in North Sumatra’s Tapanuli Districts. This unique ecosystem is the only known habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli Orangutan, a newly discovered species with only about 800 individuals remaining.
Our Partners
News & Press
BBC Interview session
The Batang Toru cloud forest in Sumatra is home to the recently discovered but critically endangered Tapanuli Orangutan. Hotlin Ompusunggu works with local communities to save them by encouraging villagers to grow tree saplings at home and bring them to the clinic as part payment for medical treatment. Chainsaws can Read More
National Geographic
These six amazing animal activists are working to protect special species around the world. Here, we catch up with them to learn about the incredible animals they’re working to save, and just how they’re doing it… Each of these inspirational projects won a 2016 Whitley Award from the Whitley Fund for Nature, a Read More
European Environment Foundation
Alam Sehat Lestari Foundation (ASRI) Co-Founder and Senior advisor Social Engagement, Biodiversity / Nature Conservation, Climate Change Whitley Awards, 2011 Whitley Awards, 2016 Whitley Gold Award 2016 Hotlin Ompusunggu Hotlin is a license dentist and the Co-Founder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), a nongovernmental organization in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. ASRI Read More