Mr. Derom Bangun

Council Member Biography

Derom Bangun is the Founder and Chairman of PT Kinar Lapiga, an oil palm plantation company. Mr. Bangun is also the First Vice Chairman of the Indonesian Palm Oil Board (IPOB) and Advisory Board Member of the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI) and a non-executive Director at Tolan Tiga Indonesia. He has over 22 years of experience in the European, Malaysian and Indonesian palm plantation industry. Mr. Bangun was also founded and co-managed PT Konsultan Tri Upaya, a consulting firm providing services to plantation companies ranging from supervision of the establishment of oil palm plantation to design and supervision of the erection of palm oil mills and refineries. He is the Second Vice President of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Vice-Chairman of Asean Vegetable Oils Club (AVOC). Mr. Bangun spoke at international conferences on palm oil and biodiesel in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Dubai, Singapore and USA. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology and attended Program for Senior Executives at MIT, Massachusetts. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

1989 - 2005

Founder, PT. Konsultan Tri Upaya

1982 - Unspecified

Founder and Chairman, PT Kinar Lapiga