Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) has over 180 members from 26 countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders, dedicated to addressing security challenges in the Asia-Pacific, with a particular focus on nuclear non-proliferation, risk reduction, and disarmament.
I Gusti Agung Wesaka PUJA
Executive Director of ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR)
Executive Director of ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR) 2020-2026
Ambassador I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja is the Executive Director of ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR) 2020-2026.
Ambassador Puja previously was Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (2016-2020). He was ASEAN-SOM Leader Indonesia (2012-2016). He also served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Indonesia to the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Slovenia, concurrently the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna (2010-2012). In 2006-2009, he served as Ambassador/Deputy Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations, World Trade Organisation and other International Organisations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ambassador Puja also served as Chairperson of the Preparatory Conference of State Parties, Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 2017-2018; Governor of Indonesia to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2011-2012; Indonesian Sherpa for the Nuclear Security Summit 2012 (2010-2011); Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament; Indonesian Representative to CTBTO in Vienna; Director of Human Rights and Member of the Indonesian Negotiators for the Aceh Peace Agreement (Geneva, Tokyo, Helsinki) in 2000-2005.
Ambassador Puja is a graduate from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and acquired his post-graduate at the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA).
Ambassador Puja has been granted Ridder Grootkruis in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau/Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange – Nassau from The King of The Netherlands (2020).