Dr. Hanafi established PT Life Cycle Indonesia (LCI), a consulting firm with a team of experts in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and sustainability, to accommodate the growing interest in Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable practices in the industry. LCI is the Indonesian network partner for SimaPro, a leading LCA Software. She is passionate about teaching and research on life cycle assessment, waste management, reverse logistics, collection strategies, sustainable manufacturing and sustainable supply chain management.
She was an active board of the Indonesian Life Cycle Assessment Network (ILCAN) during 2015 to 2018 that established ILCAN position in the national and international forum. Until now she is working as an expert for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in promoting Life Cycle Assessment in Indonesia. She drafted the adoption of ISO 14040/44 on Life Cycle Assessment to Indonesian National Standard (SNI). In 2017, she was appointed as Technical Expert for ISO TC 207 as the national mirror committee and as an expert on Life Cycle Assessment in the ISO TC 207 Steering Committee 5 in the international forum since 2018.
Since 2019, she worked in multiple LCA projects to provide input to policy development for the Ministry of Development and Planning/BAPPENAS together with national/ international organizations such as Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF), World Resource Institute (WRI), and UN Environment Programme. She continues to assists various companies and industrial associations from agricultural sectors, oil and gas, power plants, manufacturing, to pharmaceutical companies in implementing LCA in their industries and help them in pursuing sustainable activities.
In early 2021, together with fellow LCA practitioners, she established the Indonesian Association of Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Professional (Pro-LCAS) to accommodate the needs of credible LCA practitioners in Indonesia.