The Kukang Rescue Program

Jenny Natalia Simanjuntak

Chair of the Indonesian PATRON Foundation and Program Director Assistant

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Outside Kukang:
Master of Criminal Law student

Personal motto:
“See good in all things.”

Komar Karyadinata Gurusinga

Administrator of the Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre and Builder

Outside Kukang:
Construction manager and maintenance worker

Personal motto:
“Life is a struggle.“

Novitasari Br Bangun

Education Coordinator

Outside Kukang:
English teacher

Personal motto:
“Honesty is a source of life success.”

Jhon Kartasima Gurusinga

Field Area Coordinator

Outside Kukang:
Barista

Personal motto:
“Let’s protect forests and wildlife for future generations.“

Jesaya Temanta Karo-Karo

Field Worker

Outside Kukang:
Farmer and former slow loris hunter

Personal motto:
“We are fighting today, we will win tomorrow!”

Wayudi Perangin-Angin

Field Worker

Outside Kukang:
Farmer and former slow loris hunter

Personal motto:
“Success will be achieved through learning.”

Purba Tarigan

Slow Loris Keeper

Outside Kukang:
Farmer

Personal motto:
“Health is the most important thing in life.“

Rosida Br Malau

Slow Loris Keeper

Outside Kukang:
Farmer

Personal motto:
“Ora Et Labora.”

Martinus Sembiring

Insect Keeper

Outside Kukang:
Businessman

Personal motto:
“Cohesion can be an important asset for survival.”

Yanty Purba

Assistant in the Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre

Outside Kukang:
Businesswoman

Personal motto:
“Always have a strong spirit in hard work for the sake of your children.“

Abdul Hadi Sutiono

Security Guard

Outside Kukang:
Businessman

Personal motto:
“I work hard for the future of my grandchildren, who will come later”

Sipa Wida Lestari

Teacher of English and Environmental Education

Outside Kukang:
Kindergarten and high school teacher

Personal motto:
“Be grateful for what you are today and fight for what you want to be tomorrow.”

Fauziah Rahmi

Teacher of English and Environmental Education

Outside Kukang:
High school teacher

Personal motto:
“Always be grateful.“

František Příbrský (CZE)

Director of the Kukang Rescue Program

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Outside Kukang:
Field zoologist and coordinator of international in-situ projects of the Ostrava Zoo

Personal motto:
“Accept life. Keep in mind that you still have some time, but not too much. It's largely up to you what you will do with it.“

Kateřina Holubová (CZE)

Chair of the Czech NGO Kukang Rescue Program, z.s. and Spokeswoman

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Outside Kukang:
Conservation projects and promotion in the Ostrava Zoo

Personal motto:
“If we don't start with ourselves, nothing will ever change.”

Lucie Čižmářová (CZE)

Veterinary Care and Welfare Coordinator, Coordinator of Volunteers, Photographer of the program and the Stolen Wildlife Campaign

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Outside Kukang:
Field zoologist of the Zoo Olomouc

Personal motto:
“Don't say you can't when you don't want to. Because soon the days will come when it will be much worse. For a change, you will want but you will not be able to.“

Luboš Příbrský (CZE)

“Kukang Coffee” Project Coordinator, e-shop, Instagram

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Outside Kukang:
Electrical Engineering

Personal motto:
“You can win if you want.”

Jitka Řezníčková (CZE)

Workshop Coordinator

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Outside Kukang:
Tester of banking applications

Personal motto:
“It's not the mountains we climb, it's us.”

Tereza Šindelářová (CZE)

Promotion and production of bracelets

Outside Kukang:
Government official and animal photographer

Personal motto:
“The biggest enemy of animals is human. But not all people are the same.”

Petr Coufal (CZE)

IT Expert

Outside Kukang:
Website developer, manager of roller skating school

Personal motto:
“Where there's a will, there's a way.“ – Albert Einstein

Tereza Šulcová (CZE)

Event Assistant

Outside Kukang:
Editorial activity

Personal motto:
“Don't stay in the past, don't dream of the future, focus your mind on the present moment.”

Vít Kanyza (CZE)

Cameraman, Lecturer

Outside Kukang:
Documentary filmmaker, cameraman, editor, dreamer and traveller

Personal motto:
“This is life and there will be nothing more!”

Ondřej Smékal (CZE)

Cameraman

Outside Kukang:
Documentary filmmaker, cameraman

Personal motto:
“Everyone wants to do great art, but no one can charge the batteries.“

Alia Zelko (USA - Havaj)

Grant Coordinator

Outside Kukang:
Veterinarian, conservationist, teacher

Personal motto:
“This is the time when we all need to join forces to save the planet.”

Eva Šlosarčíková (CZE)

Organizer of Events for Zoos

Outside Kukang:
Herpetology and conservation activities in non-profit organizations

Personal motto:
“Jump, you will spread your wings later.”

Bára Příbrská (CZE)

Administration and Promotion

Outside Kukang:
Company consultant

Personal motto:
“The biggest mistake you can make in life is to always be afraid you'll make one.“

Jiří Bláha (CZE)

Graphic Designer

Outside Kukang:
Graphic designer at SMART EVENTS, founding member of the non-profit company Neotáčej se zády!, z.s., animal photographer

Personal motto:
“Don't turn your back ...”

Johana Rotterová (CZE)

Expert Advisor

Outside Kukang:
Researcher, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science

Personal motto:
“I mainly observe the world through the eyepieces of a microscope, but I prefer to look at it through the leaves of trees in the jungle. I would like my great-grandchildren to be able to share the second option.”

Denisa Hronová (CZE)

Event Assistant

Outside Kukang:
Student and assistant organizer of the international documentary film festival Life Sciences Film Festival

Personal motto:
“Perfect nature makes sense of our existence. Our life and future is whatever we create. They are the result of our thoughts.“

Emese Angyal (HUN)

Education and Awareness

Outside Kukang:
PhD. sociology student at Corvinus University of Budapest

Personal motto:
“I don't love people less, I love nature more.”

Barbora Tylová (CZE)

Promotion

Outside Kukang:
Advertising Coordinator

Personal motto:
“Life is great, it's up to the person to observe what's going on around him and learn.“

Stanislav Lhota (CZE)

Scientific Advisor

Outside Kukang:
Primatologist and Environmentalist

Personal motto:
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

Barbora Procházková (CZE)

Scientific Advisor

Outside Kukang:
Leading researcher (GHC Research Institute), assistant professor and pedagogue (3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University)

Personal motto:
“Love what you do and do what you love.”

Karolina Nowacka (POL)

Promotion of the program in Poland

Outside Kukang:
Primates Keeper in Wrocław Zoo

Personal motto:
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

Radomír Habáň

Kukang position:
Program Consultant

Outside Kukang:
Director of the Olomouc Zoo

David Nejedlo

Kukang position:
Program Consultant

Outside Kukang:
Director of the Liberec Zoo, founder of Veterinarians Without Borders of the Czech Republic

Martin Krug

Kukang position:
Program Consultant

Outside Kukang:
Director of the Hodonín Zoo

Tony Sumampau

Kukang position:
Program Consultant

Outside Kukang:
Owner and Director of Taman Safari Indonesia Group, General Secretary of the Association of Indonesian Zoos and Aquariums (PKBSI)