Pipik Dian Irawati

Pipik Dian Irawati Popon, known as Umi Pipik ("Mother Pipik"), is an Indonesian preacher, born on 26 November 1977 in Semarang, Central Java¹. She began as a model, actress and singer, married the preacher Jeffry Al Buchori in 1999, and after his death in an accident in 2013 took up his preaching herself, becoming one of Indonesia's best-known women preachers¹.

Irawati modelled for Aneka magazine from 1995 to 1997, acted in series and films, and from 2010 sang with the religious vocal group Fatimah Voice¹. She married the preacher Jeffry Al Buchori, known as Uje, in 1999, and they had four children¹. Uje was one of Indonesia's most famous young preachers, and in those years Irawati was known as his wife and a supporter of his work¹.

Jeffry Al Buchori died on 26 April 2013 in a motorcycle accident in South Jakarta¹. After his death Irawati began giving lessons and lectures herself, in women's assemblies and on preaching tours across Indonesia; she became known as Umi Pipik, and her lessons spread on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube as the heir of her husband's preaching and a spiritual mother to her audience¹.

Irawati is among Indonesia's most prominent women preachers: about 3.3 million Instagram accounts and 1.3 million TikTok accounts followed her in a 2025 study — platform figures that change constantly and are not presented by the museum as fixed facts¹.

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