Angeline Calista
Co-founder and CEO of Sirsak
Angeline leads Sirsak, a Jakarta-based circular economy startup building technology-driven systems to recover and trace post-consumer packaging waste, including low-value materials that are often overlooked. Through its Packaging Recovery Program, Sirsak connects businesses, waste pickers, aggregators, and recyclers to create a more transparent and economically viable waste ecosystem, while working toward its goal of recycling 100,000 tons of packaging waste and providing social protection for 50,000 waste workers by 2030. With over a decade of experience in waste management and circular economy advocacy, she also contributes as a lead expert to Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry guidelines on Extended Producer Responsibility, and continues to actively shape sustainability conversations across national and international platforms.
International Women’s Day is a timely moment to reflect on how women across the Asia Pacific region are not only participating in sustainability efforts, but leading them. Across the region, women founders and ecosystem builders are driving practical solutions to pressing challenges such as packaging waste, circular economy systems, and inclusive entrepreneurship. One example is Angeline Calista, CEO of Sirsak, who is working to transform post consumption packaging waste into economic value. Her work demonstrates that sustainability is not only about environmental responsibility, but also about building viable business models that create livelihoods and reshape waste systems in Indonesia and beyond. At the same time, women leaders across the region continue to face tangible barriers. Access to capital remains uneven, investor confidence is often harder to secure, and leadership spaces in both corporate and startup ecosystems are still predominantly male. These challenges are experienced directly in fundraising rooms, board discussions, and operational decision making.
Tue, March 31, 2026,
05:00 - 06:00 pm SGT
Online
