Irawati is CEO of Hermawan Juniarto & Partners and has more than 30 years practicing law. She is acknowledged as the leading lawyer on infrastructure and project finance in Indonesia which has strong expertise in PPP/non-PPP infrastructure regulatory, policy, project procurement and transaction.

Irawati is one of small number of lawyers in Indonesia who mastering PPP & infrastructure and has assisted Central Government, Local Governments, State Owned Enterprises as well as Local Government Owned Enterprises as project owners/Government Contracting Agency to tendering/structuring major infrastructure projects among others the Jakarta MRT, USD 40,000,000 water supply in Tangerang, USD 225,000,000 Palapa Ring Broadband Fiber Optic project, and USD 1,700,000,000 Light Rail Transit of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok and Bekasi.

In various projects Irawati have demonstrated her deep understanding on complex regulatory and institutional framework of infrastructure sectors in Indonesia in the field of power, water supply, ports, airport, rail and railway. This is resulted from her experiences in assisting the Government of Indonesia (through the Ministry of Finance, National Planning Agency and Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs) to create regulatory framework on infrastructure; assisted the formulation of Indonesia Infrastructure Finance Company and the establishment of the Indonesia PPP Unit within the Ministry of Finance in Indonesia.

In 2024 Asia Legal business recognized Irawati as one of 26 Indonesia legal icons, being the leader whose continued work and experience over may years has helped to “steer the legal community through times of challenge and prosperity”.