Your Anchor in a Volatile Landscape
Mandala Resilience Group (MRG) helps organizations manage non-technical risks before they become operational, financial, or strategic liabilities.
Focused on organizations operating in Indonesia, MRG combines deep knowledge of local operating realities with leadership experience gained across regional and international environments.
MRG was founded on a shared belief: that hard-earned experience should not remain isolated within organizations, but be applied to help others make better decisions and avoid costly mistakes.
The Challenge
Many organizations recognize these risks individually. Fewer understand how they combine, reinforce one another, and ultimately shape business outcomes.
Common Non-Technical Risks
- Land acquisition and community compensation disputes Reviews
- Contractor workforce behavior and compliance issues
- NGO, media, and social media scrutiny
- Unmet community expectations on local employment and procurement
- Inconsistent regional government coordination
and policy interpretation - Indigenous Peoples and other related stakeholder risks
- Environmental Impact Assessment, permits, and approval risk
- Security risks around remote sites, logistics routes, camps, and critical assets
What Happens When Risks Collide
How We Work
Our approach combines strategic insight with hands-on collaboration to deliver improvements that work in practice— not just on paper.
Our Services
This structured approach integrates seamlessly into your operations across seven practice areas.
Why Clients Work with MRG
1. Outcomes Over Outputs
We measure success by the value created, risks reduced, decisions improved, and capabilities strengthened
not by the volume of activity, documentation, or deliverables produced.
2. Seeing the Bigger Picture
In the non-technical space, risks rarely exist in isolation. We help clients understand and manage the
connections between them.
3. Experience-Informed Judgment
Our advice is grounded in lessons learned from leading major operations, projects, crises, and transformation
programs – not solely from analysis or theory
4. Local Context, Global Standards
We combine deep understanding of Indonesian operating environments with international standards,
governance practices, and leadership experience.
5. From Insight to Implementation
Having led organizations from within and worked alongside consultants and advisors throughout our careers,
we bring firsthand lessons on what drives successful implementation and how to translate ideas into results
Meet The Experts
Dinant Natanegara
Managing Partner
A former Regional Security Director and Vice President of Modernization & Transformation at BP, Dinant brings more than two decades of experience leading large-scale organizations through growth, transformation, crisis, and change. His leadership career spans finance, audit, corporate services, strategic planning, business transformation, executive advisory, and enterprise-level security management across India, Asia Pacific, and Oceania.
Drawing on leadership experience gained through postings in Indonesia, the United States, and Singapore, Dinant specializes in integrating diverse disciplines, stakeholders, and perspectives to help organizations navigate complexity, manage risk, and strengthen resilience.
Drawing on leadership experience gained through postings in Indonesia, the United States, and Singapore, Dinant specializes in integrating diverse disciplines, stakeholders, and perspectives to help organizations navigate complexity, manage risk, and strengthen resilience.
Budi Wirawan
Senior Partner — Corporate Security & Intelligence
Budi Wirawan is a seasoned security professional with over 30 years of diverse experiences. His career commenced with a distinguished 13-year tenure as an officer in the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI), serving in special forces, airborne, intelligence, and territorial units, both in combat operations and territorial enhancement.
For the past two decades, Budi has directed security risk management for BP within the oil and gas sector, covering the provincial level in Papua and West Papua as well as the national level — developing security plans, managing crisis response, and overseeing security contracts and budgets. He brings strong expertise in security risk assessment and incident response, as well as fostering enduring relationships with public security, law enforcement, and intelligence communities.
For the past two decades, Budi has directed security risk management for BP within the oil and gas sector, covering the provincial level in Papua and West Papua as well as the national level — developing security plans, managing crisis response, and overseeing security contracts and budgets. He brings strong expertise in security risk assessment and incident response, as well as fostering enduring relationships with public security, law enforcement, and intelligence communities.
Widdi Heryanto
Senior Partner — Security & Intelligence
Widdi Heryanto is a security management professional with over 20 years of experience in corporate and operational security across the energy and oil & gas industry.
At BP’s Tangguh LNG, he advanced from Security Coordinator to Business Security Manager, leading complex security strategy and policy implementation, risk assessment and mitigation, incident management, and stakeholder and government relations, both in Papua and Jakarta, to safeguard operational continuity.
At BP’s Tangguh LNG, he advanced from Security Coordinator to Business Security Manager, leading complex security strategy and policy implementation, risk assessment and mitigation, incident management, and stakeholder and government relations, both in Papua and Jakarta, to safeguard operational continuity.
Shinta Rachmi Wardani
Senior Partner — Human Performance & Safety Culture
Shinta Rachmi Wardani is a senior safety and human performance professional with more than 30 years of experience improving safety outcomes in complex, high-risk environments, specializing in psychological safety, human performance, leadership, and safety culture.
At BP, she designed and facilitated learning-focused incident investigations that move organizations beyond blame toward shared accountability and sustainable risk reduction, while advising executive and senior leaders on embedding learning-driven safety practices into everyday operations. A Chartered Technical Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors (CIEHF) with a psychology background, she brings a pragmatic, people-centered approach that integrates human factors into risk management, safety systems, and organizational resilience.
At BP, she designed and facilitated learning-focused incident investigations that move organizations beyond blame toward shared accountability and sustainable risk reduction, while advising executive and senior leaders on embedding learning-driven safety practices into everyday operations. A Chartered Technical Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors (CIEHF) with a psychology background, she brings a pragmatic, people-centered approach that integrates human factors into risk management, safety systems, and organizational resilience.
Irawati Hartojo
Senior Partner — Commercial Strategy & Structured Finance
Ira Hartojo is a senior LNG marketing and commercial professional with over 14 years of experience leading business development, market positioning, and complex deal execution across Asia-Pacific.
At BP's Tangguh LNG, she originated more than USD 5 billion in long-term LNG sales and enhanced portfolio value by over USD 1 billion through strategic structuring, deal negotiations, and energy-transition initiatives such as carbon-neutral LNG concepts. She combines deep market intelligence and portfolio strategy with cross-functional leadership, backed by earlier experience in structured finance and real estate advisory at Fannie Mae and Ernst & Young in Washington DC.
At BP's Tangguh LNG, she originated more than USD 5 billion in long-term LNG sales and enhanced portfolio value by over USD 1 billion through strategic structuring, deal negotiations, and energy-transition initiatives such as carbon-neutral LNG concepts. She combines deep market intelligence and portfolio strategy with cross-functional leadership, backed by earlier experience in structured finance and real estate advisory at Fannie Mae and Ernst & Young in Washington DC.
Victor Tjahjadi
Senior Partner — Crisis & Continuity Management
Victor Tjahjadi is a crisis management and communications specialist with over 27 years of experience across journalism, corporate communications, political-security risk, and emergency response. With 19 years in the field and at Agence France-Presse, BP, and Pertamina Hulu Energi ONWJ, he advises Fortune 500 and multinational energy firms on navigating Indonesia's political and security landscape while protecting reputation and ensuring business continuity. His career spans frontline crisis reporting and stakeholder engagement in Aceh, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and West Papua, and high-stakes due diligence and leadership crisis simulations.
Puti Reno Ali
Senior Partner — Business Transformation & Operational Excellence
Dr. Ir. Puti Reno Ali, ASEAN Eng., is an agility catalyst and learning-and-development leader with more than 21 years of cross-industry experience spanning operations, business development, corporate leadership, and people capability building.
She designs and delivers training, mentoring, and coaching programs grounded in agile, systems thinking, and design thinking, having served as a lecturer, subject-matter expert, and consultant for government ministries, state agencies, and major corporations, as well as in senior corporate roles such as Chief People Officer and Corporate Secretary. Holding a Doctorate in Agro-Industrial Engineering alongside numerous professional certifications and board positions, she is dedicated to building future-ready talent and driving strategic transformation across organizations.
She designs and delivers training, mentoring, and coaching programs grounded in agile, systems thinking, and design thinking, having served as a lecturer, subject-matter expert, and consultant for government ministries, state agencies, and major corporations, as well as in senior corporate roles such as Chief People Officer and Corporate Secretary. Holding a Doctorate in Agro-Industrial Engineering alongside numerous professional certifications and board positions, she is dedicated to building future-ready talent and driving strategic transformation across organizations.
Sufintri Rahayu
Senior Partner —Corporate Affairs & Sustainability
Sufintri Rahayu brings over 27 years of executive experience in building, protecting, and transforming corporate reputation and stakeholder relationships.
She has led corporate affairs functions for leading corporations across complex and highly regulated industries, including tobacco, manufacturing, financial services, oil & gas, technology (including start-ups and unicorns), FMCG, as well as national and international organizations.
Her advisory focus includes: Corporate Reputation & Strategic Communications; Public Policy, Government Relations & Regulatory Navigation; Crisis & Issues Management and Preparedness; Sustainability, ESG Strategy & Reporting; and Stakeholder Mapping, Engagement & Partnership.
She has led corporate affairs functions for leading corporations across complex and highly regulated industries, including tobacco, manufacturing, financial services, oil & gas, technology (including start-ups and unicorns), FMCG, as well as national and international organizations.
Her advisory focus includes: Corporate Reputation & Strategic Communications; Public Policy, Government Relations & Regulatory Navigation; Crisis & Issues Management and Preparedness; Sustainability, ESG Strategy & Reporting; and Stakeholder Mapping, Engagement & Partnership.
Lidia Ahmad
Senior Partner — Business Transformation & Operational Excellence
Lidia Ahmad is a Senior Business Transformation & Operational Excellence with 35 years of experience, beginning her career with international consultants Dames & Moore/URS Corporation delivering environmental and social studies for major oil and gas and mining companies including Chevron, Total, Freeport, BHP, and Newmont.
At BP, she held a succession of regional leadership roles across Asia Pacific — including Director for Environmental and Regulatory Compliance, Safety & Operational Risk Manager, Engineering Manager for Tangguh LNG Operations, and most recently Business Transformation and Improvement Manager — and led the business improvement and transformation programs for Tangguh operations and BP Indonesia. Her focus was to turn strategy into measurable business results by aligning transformation and improvement initiatives, driving operational excellence and cost efficiency initiatives, and embedding sustainable change that strengthens competitive advantage,
She combines deep regulatory and ESG expertise with a proven business improvement and transformation record, deploying digital tools such as Advanced Process Control and Digital Twin that lifted LNG production by 2–3 percent annually and drive the cost efficiency initiatives resulting significant value saving without sacrificing safety performance.
At BP, she held a succession of regional leadership roles across Asia Pacific — including Director for Environmental and Regulatory Compliance, Safety & Operational Risk Manager, Engineering Manager for Tangguh LNG Operations, and most recently Business Transformation and Improvement Manager — and led the business improvement and transformation programs for Tangguh operations and BP Indonesia. Her focus was to turn strategy into measurable business results by aligning transformation and improvement initiatives, driving operational excellence and cost efficiency initiatives, and embedding sustainable change that strengthens competitive advantage,
She combines deep regulatory and ESG expertise with a proven business improvement and transformation record, deploying digital tools such as Advanced Process Control and Digital Twin that lifted LNG production by 2–3 percent annually and drive the cost efficiency initiatives resulting significant value saving without sacrificing safety performance.
Vincent Norman
Senior Partner — Project Development & Infrastructure Risk
Vincent Norman is a development manager for oil and gas onshore and offshore facilities and general civil and marine infrastructure projects with over 40 years of experience, specializing in grass-roots plant projects with complex infrastructure and facilities in remote areas.
Across petro-chemical projects in Bontang, Kalimantan, Offshore North-West Java, BP's Tangguh LNG Trains 1–3 in Papua and BP Trinidad & Tobago development, he planned and delivered major marine and infrastructure packages — including LNG jetties and export terminals, shore bases, and construction camps for up to 10,000 workers — and currently serves as Senior Project Advisor for the Tangguh LNG Security Enhancement and Future Development Project. Holding a master's degree in civil engineering and project management from Virginia Tech, and with working experiences in Indonesia, Japan, Trinidad & Tobago and in the United States, he brings particular strength in project risk management, AMDAL and community consultation, and stakeholder engagement for large-scale and mega projects.
Across petro-chemical projects in Bontang, Kalimantan, Offshore North-West Java, BP's Tangguh LNG Trains 1–3 in Papua and BP Trinidad & Tobago development, he planned and delivered major marine and infrastructure packages — including LNG jetties and export terminals, shore bases, and construction camps for up to 10,000 workers — and currently serves as Senior Project Advisor for the Tangguh LNG Security Enhancement and Future Development Project. Holding a master's degree in civil engineering and project management from Virginia Tech, and with working experiences in Indonesia, Japan, Trinidad & Tobago and in the United States, he brings particular strength in project risk management, AMDAL and community consultation, and stakeholder engagement for large-scale and mega projects.
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