Debryna Dewi Lumanauw

At first, being a doctor was not what dr. Debryna Dewi Lumanauw had in mind. But then she fell in love with the profession. “When I went to help people in rural areas and isolated places of Indonesia, it opened my eyes,” Debryna says. “We always say that being a doctor is a profession. And just like with any other profession, you do your job to live. But more than that, I have found so many things that is just bigger than medicine and the knowledge of it. Whenever I see my patients, I interact with them and personally communicate with them – which are things that I didn’t learn in school. Instead, I learned to be a better person, I learned how to not think about just myself, and how to be kind. It’s the value of life that, again, you don’t learn at school.” Then she adds: “It was just so different. Everything that I did, when I went to these places, it’s all based on sincerity. It’s all based on how I just want to help, and nothing else.”

Debryna’s passion to help people was once again proven as she volunteered at Wisma Atlet, which was turned into an emergency field hospital after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. She stayed there for two months straight.

But ultimately, what is her goal in life? “Indonesia has pretty bad health disparity. Education and gender inequality is also horrible in Indonesia. My biggest goal in life is to at least work on something about that. What I’ve learned from all that I’ve done and from this pandemic is that when we do something sincerely, when we keep trying, when we keep giving 110-percent, it will yield something. My hope is just so that I can do my best to solve those problems.”

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