Period of 1992-2002

In 1992-2002 period YPB had one main program with LEAD network (Leadership for Environment and Development) that promotes sustainable development trhough LEAD Associate Training (LAT). LAT participants are mid career professionals from government agencies, private sector, academic institutions, NGOs, and mass media. LAT was conducted at national, regional and international level for a period of long-term training (50-80 days). In LAT the participants had the opportunity to get the insight of development issues, exchange ideas, had deeper understanding of various country challenges, and to develop network. Those who have completed LAT became LEAD Fellows. In this period LAT was fully supported by Rockefeller Foundation.

The new program has been approaching more audience, using the tools of analysis, applied sustainability tools that related to sustainable development so that sustainable development is not only considered as a framework but more toward analytical format, that can be applied in daily life. The support from various agencies have enable YPB to implement its program, among others, the support from Ford Foundation, CIDA, Darwin Initiatives, UNIDO, British Embassy, LEAD International, and other contributions as well.

MS Kismadi - First YPB Executive Director (1992–2002)

Since the establishment of YPB in 1992, MS Kismadi had been the first Executive Director of the institution until he passed away in 2002. In his term YPB has 118 LEAD Indonesian Fellows. With his extensive experience as a lecturer at Faculty of Economy at the University of Indonesia and as an expert for the Ministry of Environment, Kismadi has been acknowledged as a visionary leader who has developed the first environmental policy in the era of Emil Salim as the State Minister of the Environment. His experience has been adapted into YPB where he become a truly education teacher who encouraged young leaders to have the capacity of critical thinking. Despite of his highly intellectual capacity, Kismadi was very well known of a man with sincerity and simplicity. He died during LAT activities in Mexico in 2002, where he was respected by all LEAD network in a deep moved emotion, in his last moment.