Her love for the world of conservation made Ningsih study Conservation since high school majoring in Natural Resources Conservation at the Manokwari State Forestry Vocational School. While in high school, Ningsih actively participated in several competitions related to environmental issues. One of them, Ningsih once represented Papua and Maluku in a youth role competition to protect the environment held by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in Manggala Wanabakti and won 1st place.
Ningsih continued her Bachelor’s degree at Victory University majoring in Forestry, Ningsih also worked in between lectures. Ningsih has more than 5 years of experience and is directly involved in empowering Indigenous Papuans through several NGOs and carrying out several activities such as Livelihood which focuses on community development and mapping of the Indigenous Forest Community area in Papua covering Sorong Regency, South Sorong, Tambraw and Kebar as well as Marine Biodiversity conducting a survey monitoring dolphins, turtles, dugongs, whales and coral reefs in the Raja Ampat area and the Panura Sausapor beach.
Ningsih loves reading and writing. One of Ningsih’s writings is published in the journal “Public Perception of the Submission of Social Forestry for Village Forest Schemes in Sorong Regency”.
Ningsih’s life motto “who are we as humans under this sky, so that we want to judge our fellow humans” having differences in existence in the Land of Papua does not diminish the love for the Land of Papua.
