MEET
THE TEAM
Meet our amazing dedicated team who put their all in to caring for our monkey residents.
Hanato Ntonk
Head of Foundation
Hobby: Playing Cards
Hananto was introduced to BMR thorugh his dear friend Sari. He is passionate about animal welfare, conservation and biodiversity. He is also active in the community empowerment field.
Hananto's great interest is exploring how humans and nature can live in harmony - and this includes monkeys who are sadly viewed as a problem across much of South East Asia.
Because of his skills in all of these areas, and his passion to make a difference in the world, Sari was eager to appoint him as the Chairman of the Bali Monkey Recue Foundation.
Putu Ekayanti
Primate Care Specialist
Hobby: dancing
Views about monkeys:
Monkeys are very cute. They are very food orientated and will do almost anything for a treat.
Hope for monkeys:
I want monkeys to always be healthy and be able to progress
Gusti Ngurah Myarta Arya Gama
Primate Care Specialist
Hobbies: Sports
Views about monkeys:
Monkeys deserve nothing but love and respect.
Hope for monkeys: As one of the main handlers of our monkeys, I hope that all our that all are kind, tame and not aggressive towards me.
I also hope that monkeys and humans learn to live together in peace.
Sari Martinez
Foundation Manager and Founder of BMR
Hobby: Surfing and animals
As a child, Sari was surrounded by monkeys and rescued her first abused monkey when she was only a teenager. This led to Sari developing a huge passion for safeguarding abused and neglected monkey's in Indonesia. She has dedicated her life to studying primates - specifically log tail macaques and now uses this knowledge to help care for all of the monkeys at the rescue centre.
Sari inherited BMR from her dear friend Lynnette Mann and it was Sari who has registered Bali Monkey Rescue as an official NGO Foundation.
Her drive, passion and leadership is what has led to BMR being the safe haven for macaques that it is today.
Jelita Rusmei Pasaribu
Site Manager
Hobby: Singing
Views about monkeys: Monkeys are intelligent, social animals and have an important role in the ecosystem
Hope for monkeys: the government wants to care about the lives of animals, especially monkeys, who are treated unfairly by humans, tortured, eaten and killed.
Gusti Ayu
Primate Care Specialist
Hobby: cooking
Views about monkeys: Monkey's truly understand when they are genuinely loved. I see this in all of the rescue monkeys we care for.
Hope for monkeys:
I want to see long tail macaques species reserved and not become extinct
Wayan Juli
Budayani
Primate Care Specialist
Hobby: shopping
Views about monkeys:
Monkeys are so active and love to play
Hope for monkeys: I hope that all monkeys will always be healthy and happy.
I Wayan Citra
Primate Care Specialist and Head of Human Resources
Wayan is the longest serving BMR team member, having worked with Lynette before her passing. Wayan is known as "the monkey whisperer" as he has a beautiful ability to communicate and interact with our macaques. Wayan often takes the lead role during a monkey rescue - particularly when it is an aggressive adult monkey. His love and admiration for these animals shines through when you watch him work at BMR, and he is deeply committed to giving them the best possible life that we can.