Founder and chairman of the Jaringan Indonesia Positif – JIP (Positive Indonesia Network), a national network for people living with HIV AIDS. Meirinda Sebayang also serves as chairman of the Indonesia Technical Working Group of HIV (TWG-HIV) and a member of the Country Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Fund Indonesia.
She has been involved in HIV issues since 15 years ago Mei, as she is usually called, started her struggle since being involved in the Indonesian Family Planning Association (PKBI) Bandung as a field officer to reach out to a community of female sex workers in the Saritem area of Bandung in 2004.