Sakinah Ummu Haniy (Haniy) is the Communications Coordinator at WRI Indonesia. She is responsible to support communications strategies and managing multiple communications channels for several projects and WRI Indonesia as an organization.

Prior to joining WRI, Haniy worked as a multimedia journalist for almost three years for Rappler Indonesia, a start-up media company headquartered in Manila, Philippines, which has been covering human rights issues in Philippines, Indonesia, and South East Asia since 2012. During her time as a journalist, she covered multiple issues including human rights and environment. She also used to work as a researcher for the public relations team of Indonesian Parliament (DPR RI).

She got a Master’s Degree in Media and Journalism from Newcastle University, United Kingdom, after she got a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Universitas Indonesia. In her spare time, she loves traveling, eating out, sleeping, as well as playing with her nieces.