Sal Murgiyanto

Sal Murgiyanto is a scientist and dance critic. He is one of the founders of the Performing Arts Faculty at Institut Kesenian Jakarta, and a co-founder of IDF. He first learned to dance at the age of 10, and later joined renowned Indonesian artists Retno Maruti and Sardono W. Kusumo. For his lifelong dedication to developing Indonesian dance, he received the IDF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.