Henriette Hutabarat Lebang

President, World Council of Churches, Indonesia

Rev. Dr. Henriette Hutabarat Lebang, a pastor of Toraja Church in Indonesia, is presently chair of the advisory board of the Communion of Churches in Indonesia, general chairperson of Indonesian Bible Society, one of the presidents of the World Council of Churches (WCC) representing Asian churches, and a resource person for the Leimena Institute program on cross-cultural religious literacy. She was general chairperson of the Communion of Churches in Indonesia (2014–2019), a member of the WCC executive committee (2013–2018), a member of the WCC central committee (2013–2021), general secretary of Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) (2010–2015), and director of the Institute Theology of Toraja Church (2006–2010). Additionally, she served as a member of the joint working group of WCC and the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity (2007–2013), chair of education and mission of the Synod of Toraja Church (2001–2006), vice president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (2004–2010), associate general secretary of CCA (1991–2001), and the head of the Women’s Desk of the Communion of Churches in Indonesia (1984–1986). Rev. Hutabarat Lebang graduated from Jakarta Theological Seminary (MDiv 1977) and Presbyterian School of Christian Education/Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, USA (MA 1987; EdD 1991). She is the widow of the late Ralph Donald M. Hutabarat and has two children and four grandchildren.