Recollections from a life in service
Written by members, about the work and the years since.
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Thirty years, four duty stations
The first posting was supposed to last two years. It lasted five, and by the time it ended the idea of going back to where I started had quietly stopped making sense. What I remember best is not the work itself but the people it put me beside. Colleagues from a dozen countries, most of…
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The office that was lent to us
In the early years there was no office to speak of. Meetings were held wherever a room could be found, and papers were carried from house to house in whatever bag happened to be free that week. What changed things was an offer of space. A room was lent to the association, and for the…
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The Future Of AFUNPR
(By: Handoko) One may ask how AFUNPR would look like in the future given the fact that UN in Indonesia has for the last decades recruited much less and less staff with permanent nor fixed term contracts. Such posts might not be needed due to decreasing UN development budget as Indonesia had graduated to a…