Living Independently in Their Own Home

KOMPAS/ARSIP LAKOAT KUJAWAS

One of the weavers in Mollo, South Central Timor, East Nusa Tenggara. Now fewer and fewer young people are engaged in weaving in the western part of Timor Island.

The people of Mollo are no longer dependent on food ingredients from outside. Local young entrepreneurs are pioneering to produce everything the villagers need by working hard to manage nature’s potential.

For decades, the people of Taiftob village in North Mollo, South Central Timor regency, East Nusa Tenggara, did not realize their own natural wealth. Nature’s potential was deemed worthless.