RotaryIndonesia.com – After graduating, she became the CEO of her family’s shipping & logistics company and joined Rotary in 2005 as a Charter President. Her passion for Rotary grew when she was assigned to oversee the import of ShelterBoxes from the UK to Indonesia to help victims of the devastating 2006 Yogya earthquake that claimed more than 5,700 lives. In 2007, she became the ShelterBox affiliate Indonesia Chair.
During her term as District Governor in 2013 she visited a rural village in Cilacap. The villagers were fishermen but they no longer had a source of income ever since the nearby lagoon dried up and became a malaria-infested swamp. To help out the villagers, Eva started a global grant project to transform the swamp into productive land for farming. Thanks to this new source of income the villagers livelihood have improved and can even send their kids to school overseas. Over the years, she duplicated the project 4 more times in different villages for a total of 5 global grants projects that have yielded more than $60 million USD in total. RI has shared these projects on the RI Voices Blog and their official Instagram. She also started a 6th global grant to build a rice mill to produce better quality rice.
But she didn’t stop there, she also carried out 7 more global grant projects in Lampung, including 2 water irrigation projects. One of the water irrigation projects has yielded $7 million USD per year while the second project has just been approved with a budget of $193,000 USD. News about the high-impact projects reached CNN Indonesia, who contacted Eva to cover the Lampung project in May 2026 and the Cilacap project in July 2026.
She was the first Indonesian Rotarian to be appointed as a Regional Zone Leader in 2015, when she served as Rotary Membership Coordinator (RMC). She also served as Rotary Public Image Coordinator (RPIC) in 2022 and currently serves as Endowment Major Gift Advisor. She is also serving her second term as TRF Major Gift Initiative Advisor for Community Economic Development.
She was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Woman, Asia Pacific Most Outstanding Entrepreneurship, Asia Pacific Most Outstanding Social Entrepreneurship, and Most Gracious Woman Award from the Ministry of Women Empowerment & Child Protection.
