Founding Partner & Chairperson

Rahmi Jened is an authority in the field of Indonesian Civil Law, Business Law, and Intellectual Property Law. She pursued her bachelor"s (1988) at Law Faculty, master"s (1998) and doctoral (2006) degrees at Postgraduate Program, Airlangga University. In 2006, not only did she graduate as a Doctor of Law with the Cum Laude Predicate, but she was also bestowed with the award of "Airlangga University Best Graduate".

She has been a civil-servant lecturer at Airlangga University since 1990. She is a two-time "Airlangga Best Lecturer" Awardee, receiving the Awards in 2006 and 2007 consecutively. She went on to become a Full Law Professor at the University, inducted in 2008. At 43, she was then one of the youngest Indonesian full professors.

In 2010, she was privileged to be selected as one of the 100 Indonesian High Achieving Female Researchers", an award collaboratively granted by the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection & United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). She has extensive experience in conducting wide-ranging research on Civil and Business Law, Investment dan Corporation Law, and Intellectual Property Law.

Rahmi Jened has also been active in several professional organizations throughout her career as a legal academic and practitioner. She was the Secretary of Intellectual Property (IP) Clinic of Law Faculty, Airlangga University between 1998 and 2000. She was the legal and patent drafter of Airlangga"s IP Technical Service Unit, Airlangga"s IP Center from 2000 to 2007. She was appointed Ad-hoc Chief of Airlangga"s IP Center from 2007 to 2009. In her role at Airlangga"s IP Center, she assisted and represented Airlangga"s academic community to obtain intellectual property rights attainment in the form of copyright recordation letters, patent certificates, trademark certificates, and industrial design certificates. Half-sonde toothpick, monoclonal antibodies, and keloid prevention medication were inventions invented by Airlangga"s academics, for whose patent certificates were granted by DGIP Indonesia.

Rahmi Jened served as Deputy Leader of Industry and Intellectual Property Certification Division, of East Java Chambers of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) from 2007 to 2012.

She has been active as a member of Supervisory Boards of both, the Association of Intellectual Property Rights Teachers (APHKI) since 2010 and the Association of Civil Law Teachers (APHK) since 2012. She is also a mediator and arbitrator at the Intellectual Property Rights Arbitration and Mediation Board (BAM HKI) since 2012.

She was Vice Dean for Cooperation Development and Information System of Law Faculty Airlangga University (2007-2010)

She is an Certified Arbitrator from Indonesian Arbitration Institute (2022- now)

She also received numerous education scholarship awards from 1994 to 2021:

1994

The Economic Law and Improved Procurement System (ELIPS) Project funded by USAID and implemented by the Coordinating Ministry of Economy, Finance, Industries, and Supervision of Development, in Jakarta

1997

In 1997 Rahmi Jened was sent to the University of Technology Sydney  ( UTS), Australia by the Indonesia- Australia  Specialized Training Project ( IASTP)   Batch II after becoming the  Best Participant of  IPR in- house training  by IASTP.

1999

Industrial Property Rights Training Course for Intellectual Property Clinic Operational Staff and Lawyer funded by Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII) and organized under the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) in Tokyo – Japan

2003

Intellectual Property Training for Intellectual Property Practitioners, also coordinated by JIII and AOTS and was a collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Tokyo – Japan

2004

The EU and ASEAN Project on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (ECAP) II, funded by the EU and ASEAN, implemented by the European Patent Office (EPO) in collaboration with Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, in Munich – Germany

2005

ECAP II funded by the EU and ASEAN and implemented by EPO, in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), in London – the United Kingdom

2008

Training on Competitive Advantage through University Partnership, funded by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), held at University of Hamburg, Hamburg – Germany

2018

Training of Trainers (ToT) on Intellectual Property in the Digital World, funded by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), implemented by Indonesia Intellectual Property Academy (IIPA) and Directorate General of Intellectual Property of Indonesia (DGIP Indonesia)

2019

• Training of Trainers (ToT) on Geographical Indications, funded by International Research Center for Agriculture and Development (CIRAD) and SupAgro (College of Agriculture) Montpellier, implemented at University of Padjajaran, Bandung
• ASEAN Law Academy, funded by Center for International Law (CIL) and implemented at National University of Singapore (NUS), in Singapore

2020

• Advocate Profession Specialized Education (PKPA) organized by the Indonesian Advocates" Association/ PERADI (under Dr. H. Bambang Widjojanto, S.H., M.Sc.), "The Best Participant" accolade
• Certified Mediator and Conciliator (graduated from the Certifying Conciliator and Mediator Training Course, organized by Jimly School of Law & Government (JLSF)), "The Best Participant" accolade
• Certified Contract Drafter (graduated from the Certifying Contract Drafter Training Course, organized by JLSG), "The Best Participant" accolade

2021

The 17th WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property, funded by WIPO and the World Trade Organization (WTO), was conducted virtually because of the pandemic.

Zaenal has profound experience and knowledge in the fields of Land and Real Property Law and Consumer Protection Law. On top of that, he is deeply passionate about creating a real connection and improving the lives of marginal communities. He always goes above and beyond to be helpful to the ones in need.

In 1993, he was a Scoutmaster of The First ‘World Community Development’ in Lebak Harjo Village, Malang. In 1995, he became the Committee of ‘Arung Samudra’ collaboratively organized with the Indonesian Navy. In the late 1990s, he was involved in the project that successfully converted Batunese cigarette tax revenues: from getting paid to the national government (counted as the state income) to getting returned to the Batunese local administrative government (counted as the Batunese local revenue). Since 1993, Batunese region had been an administrative territory that was considered a part of Malang Regency.

However, with the success of the cigarette tax revenue project, in 2001, the project resulted, or at least, was tremendously contributory, in the formation of an autonomous City of Batu, separate from Malang Regency.

In 2006 and 2007, he participated in Consumer Protection Training Course organized by the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia and in 2008, he established an independent Consumer Advocacy and Protection Institution (LAPK).

In 2010, he participated in the Training Program for Indonesian Small and Medium Industry Institutes (LIKMI) and was appointed to become the year’s Chairman of LIKMI Chapter: Malang Raya. In 2013, he became the Managing Partner of Rahmi Jened & Partners. In 2015, he became actively involved in the National Anti-Narcotics Movement (GRANAT) of East Java.

In his career as an active member of the Indonesian Advocates Congress (KAI), he was appointed Chairman of the Malang Raya Branch Management Board from 2014 to 2017 (Regency/ City Level of Management). From 2017 until currently, he has been a Member of the East Java Province Management Board (Provincial Level of Management).

For more than two decades, he has aided or facilitated the establishments of several grass-root communities whose general objective is to empower the communities to become more resourceful as well as to figure out how finance and banking funding can be more accessible. Examples of these communities are Indonesian Drivers Union, Indonesian Farmers Union, Union of Local Culture Practitioners and Artists, and Nuswantoro Guardian Service (NGS, which is a unique Union whose objective is to preserve local cultural and natural environments and resources).

Since 2018, Zaenal has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Community for the Protection of Batunese Tropical Apples and he has been very active as Geographical Indications Trainer. Further, he became a Certified Mediator and Conciliator (CMC) as well as Certified Contract Drafter (CCD) in 2020, after graduating from the respective Certifying Training Courses organized by Jimly School of Law & Government (JLSF).