--- title: "Susianto Tseng - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "Susianto Tseng: Susianto Tseng Regional Coordinator for Asia-Pacific 2006 - Head of the Indonesia Vegetarian Society, President of Vegan Society of Indonesia. - Jakarta, Indonesia Born to be Vegan - Jakarta Post, March 2011 Below: Susianto is 2nd from the left with some of the Indonesian group at" url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/biographies/4387-members-council-susianto-tseng.html" date: "2026-11-06T00:08:00+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # Susianto Tseng ![Dr Susianto Tseng, IVU Regional Coordinator for Asia-Pacific 2006-2018 and Chair of IVU 2015-2018](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/members/council/susianto2.jpg)International Council# Dr. Susianto Tseng Jakarta, Indonesia · Regional Coordinator for Asia-Pacific 2006–2018 · Chair of IVU 2015–2018Public health nutritionist, head of the Indonesia Vegetarian Society and president of the Vegan Society of Indonesia. He organised the first IVU World Vegetarian Congress held in Indonesia and became the first Indonesian to chair the Union. ## On the Council - **Regional Coordinator for Asia-Pacific** 2006 – 2018 - **Member of the International Council** 2006 – 2018 - **Chair of the International Vegetarian Union** 2015 – 2018 - **Organiser, 39th IVU World Vegetarian Congress, Jakarta and Bali** 2010 ## Who he is Susianto Tseng was born on 1 October 1967 and read chemistry at Gadjah Mada University. He became vegetarian in 1988, in his second year, after running food analyses himself, and vegan in 2006. In 1998 he and a handful of vegetarian friends founded the Indonesia Vegetarian Society at a meeting on an organic farm outside Jakarta and affiliated it to IVU; he led the society until 2015 and has been its secretary general since. He co-founded the Vegan Society of Indonesia in 2006 and remains its president, founded the South East Asia Vegetarian Union in 2007, and was president of the Asia Pacific Vegetarian Union from 2013 to 2015. He took over as IVU Regional Coordinator for Asia-Pacific in 2006, succeeding Jashu Shah at the 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Goa, and held the post for about twelve years. In October 2010 he chaired the organising committee of the [**39th IVU World Vegetarian Congress**](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/biographies/3562-congress-2010-index.html) in Jakarta and [Bali](https://ivu.org/john-davis/145-bali-beautiful.html), the first held in Indonesia, with delegates from twenty countries and a public food exposition backed by the Indonesian government. He was elected Chair of IVU in 2015 and served until 2018, the first Indonesian to lead the Union. He holds a doctorate in nutrition from the Faculty of Public Health of the University of Indonesia, awarded *summa cum laude*, for research on the vitamin B12 content of tempeh, and has written several books on vegetarian and vegan nutrition. In 2018 he founded the World Vegan Organisation, which he still leads as president. - **[Born to be Vegan](http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/03/21/born-be-a-vegan.html)** — Jakarta Post, March 2011 ## From the archive ![Susianto with the Indonesian group at the 37th IVU World Vegetarian Congress, Goa, September 2006](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/2006/indonesia.jpg)Susianto is 2nd from the left with some of the Indonesian group at the 37th IVU World Vegetarian Congress in Goa, India, September 2006. They are with Jashu Shah, centre, the Congress organiser and retiring IVU Regional Coordinator for Asia, 2nd from the right is the President of IVS. ![Susianto with Marly Winckler, IVU Regional Coordinator for Latin America, at the 37th IVU World Vegetarian Congress, Goa, 2006](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/2006/pics/indonesia3.jpg)Susianto on the right, 3rd from the left is Marly Winckler, IVU Regional Coordinator for Latin America. Dr Susianto Tseng left the International Council in 2018, at the end of his term as Chair. He continues to lead the Vegan Society of Indonesia and the World Vegan Organisation. [Full biography](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/biographies/6768-dr-susianto-tseng.html) [International Council](https://ivu.org/international-council.html) [Biographies](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/biographies.html) A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly. Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. 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