Elgea Balzarie

Elgea Balzarie lives and works in Jatiwangi, Indonesia. She is an arts and psychology enthusiast as well as an educator with a knack for permacircular reforestation. Elgea is the director of Lovegood Productions, an organisation dedicated to positive psychology research and promoting the mental health of teenagers in the Jatiwangi area. She also co-coordinates the Perhutana Collective Forest Project, an initiative aimed at reclaiming forest land to protect it from industrial development. Through the implementation of collective care and ownership, Perhutana explores alternative economic models rooted in traditional cultural practices and ecological knowledge.