1. Semi Established Champions
Hong Community: Reinventing Sundanese Folk Toys and Folk Games to Promote
Educational Eco‐Tourism
Despite its rich cultural heritage, over time many of the
traditional Sundanese folk toys, and the stories about
them, have been lost. Modern toys and games are often
too expensive for the average Indonesian family.
Working with the Hong Community based in kampung
Dago Pakar, Bandung, university lecturer and child
educator Zaini Alif is following a radical path by
reinventing Sundanese folk toys and reengineering folk
games. The Hong Community found that Indonesian folk
toys have become increasingly rare in the market. Only a
few craftsmen remain who produce folk toys, and only a
M. Zaini Arif - Hong handful of these conform to international child‐safety
Community standards.
By producing and marketing toys (mostly from bamboo and wood) that meet safety
standards, the Hong Community intends to promote Sundanese folk games to
improve local tourism. It also plans to replicate this community enterprise model for
cultural conservation in other ethnic groups and regions across Indonesia.
Decisions on the production and marketing of toys will be made through a forum
involving all community members represented in a foundation. This foundation will
form a cooperative that is mainly involved in the business development of craft
making and folk performances. Strategic direction will be charted by the foundation,
while the day‐to‐day operation of the enterprise will be managed by the cooperative.
All craftsmen working for the community will be members of the cooperative and
will thus be involved in decision making for of this social enterprise.
The short‐term impacts of this project will be an improvement of the incomes of
traditional craftsmen in Dago Pakar village, an improvement of their skills in
standardized product development and technology. These impacts will strengthen
the public acceptance and recognition of traditional toys and games in the region.
The long‐term aims of this project include the provision of a social enterprise model
for product development by other craftsmen in other communities; the conservation
of Sundanese culture as a valuable aspect of national heritage; as well as the
provision of cost‐saving and creative alternatives to expensive/modern toys and
games for children.
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2. CV Outreach International Bioenergy: Alleviating Poverty through Jatropha
Curcas Cultivation
For many years Flores Island has been recognised for its
low‐income farmers. Most of Flores is not suitable for
common food crops because of the low annual rainfall in
the region. Compounding this situation is the fact that so
far no strategies have been successful in improving
poverty indicators among these farmers.
A comprehensive effort is needed to transform non‐fertile
land into productive land, with various means.
CV Outreach proposes an integrated community
development programme, based on several years of
research and development work in Flores, including in
agribusinesses such as growing jatropha seeds, teakwood
Elias T. Moning - CV and farming honey bees.
Outreach
CV Outreach will partner with the local farmer
cooperative, providing orientation for its programme and technical assistance and
guidance, from planting through to harvest.
Under this scheme, Outreach will provide jatropha seeds, while farmers will provide
land. Outreach will then buy the products of the farmers’ harvests. In addition to
buying the jatropha seeds, the company will return 10 percent of its profits to the
farmer cooperative, from the sale of jatropha oil.
In combination with their jatropha plantations, farmers would be able to grow
teakwood and farm honeybees, which they would manage and harvest
independently, helping them act as independent entrepreneurs.
Since farmers are members of the cooperative, they will automatically be involved in
decision making for the enterprise through cooperative board meetings.
Local farmers income‐generating capacities will improve with the addition of
multiple sources of income, for example from honey and livestock, while they will
also gain new skills in jatropha farming and additional income from harvesting
jatropha and teakwood.
What has long been a neglected and low‐income farming community will have
realized that their non‐fertile land can sustain them through an integrated farming
strategy, and growth in the local economy will provide employment opportunities
for young people and prevent migration to urban areas.
CV Outreach will educate farmers on the objectives of social enterprise through field
guidance and workshops. This will help keep farmers motivated to be productive,
and eventually sustain their own social enterprises. CV Outreach and the cooperative
will also hold an annual meeting involving representatives of the farmers’
community to discuss results of this social enterprise.
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3. Indonesian Pluralism Institute: Marketing, Preserving Traditional Community
Batik
The Indonesian Pluralism Institute (IPI) has researched
the lives, culture and the rise and fall of Lasem batik, one
of Indonesia’s most famous batik styles. Lasem is near
Rembang, in Central Java.
Once a national icon, this batik community has been faced
with deteriorating conditions since 1997. A focus on
cultural conservation has been insufficient, and economic
empowerment and industrial support for people involved
in each batik cluster is needed to restore Lasem batik to its
former glory.
To this end, IPI plans to establish a Centre for Community
Batik Marketing. This centre will provide a physical
William Kwan - IPI marketplace for traders, and serve as a centre for e‐
trading. The centre will also serve as a database of specific Lasem Batik motifs.
The institute also plans to partner with Srikandi Jeruk Batik Artisans Community.
For any strategic decision making, the IPI director will involve the chairperson and
deputy chairperson of the Batik Artisans Community.
This enterprise will improve the batik artisan community economy and develop the
community’s skills in management and entrepreneurship and create a business
model for the promotion of culture and the preservation of Lasem Batik culture.
To ensure the sustainability of this project, specific strategies will be implemented,
including the development of a new business model with the capacity to adapt to
changing situations in the future, and a mechanism to review future impacts will be
established, for example through the documentation of the development of this
social enterprise.
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4. Start Up Champions
Pakpak Bharat Farmer Alliance: Empowering Farmers using Organic Waste
An alliance was founded to organize and help poor
farmers to become a self sustaining‐community.
Through research, the alliance’s technical team
discovered that the use of chemical fertilizers was a
serious problem for the community. Chemical fertilizer
is expensive since it must be shipped in from Medan,
but is also toxic and harms the natural environment.
As Pakpak Bharat Regency has been found to be highly
suitable for rabbit farming, the alliance has proposed a
means to help its farmer members develop their own
eco‐friendly fertilizer using rabbit waste. A successful
rabbit farm nearby will be utilized as a technical
Sabam Malau - Pakpak Bharat resource for assistance and guidance.
Aliance
Developing a rabbit farming enterprise has the potential
to become a new model for community development through farming.
The farmer alliance members will form a cooperative. As members of this
cooperative, the farmers will have equal rights to be involved in democratic decision
making at board meetings.
Farmers will spend significantly less without the need to purchase costly chemical
fertilizers from external sources. They will also gain innovative skills in transforming
rabbit waste into useful products, namely “bokashi” fertilizer.
Based on the success of this project, other communities and regions may adopt this
model to help farmers reduce their dependence on dangerous chemical fertilizers.
An administrative system will be developed to enable stakeholders to verify and
review the progress of this project. With detailed monitoring, this project will be
evaluated using several key indicators that will include the improvement of farmers’
income, the improvement of plantation productivity, the improvement of farmers’
social enterprise etc.
Specific tools will also be designed to monitor critical assumptions that will decide
the future of the enterprise. If these assumptions are challenged, farmer cooperative
members will hold board meetings to discuss the situation and develop contingency
plans.
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5.
CV Fruitanol: Empowering Farmers with Bio‐ethanol and Fertilizer Technology
Salak fruit is often overproduced and salak farmers
have experienced difficulties finding new markets for
their crops. This excess was first noted in research
findings in 1995 and reached a peak in 1998. The salak
crop in Bangunkerto village alone produces around 1
ton of salak fruit waste every month. This waste is
dumped locally, attracting flies and other insects,
creating an environmental hazard.
Dita Adi Saputra and his colleagues have developed a
pilot project to utilize this fruit in the production of bio‐
ethanol. Salak waste has a proven potential for use as
organic fertilizer. Dita has envisioned an enterprise run
by the community as a commercial vehicle to produce
Dita Adi Saputra – CV Fruitanol and sell bio‐ethanol and organic fertilizer.
With guidance from a team of consultants, lead by Dita, a community of Salak
farmers will be involved directly in the daily operation of this social enterprise.
Community heads will become the directors of this enterprise.
Decision making will involve all of the farmers, since they will be the owners of the
enterprise. The directors will facilitate, direct and lead any strategic and technical
meeting for the farmers’ community in running the enterprise.
Farmers will receive additional income from producing and selling bio‐ethanol and
organic fertilizer from their fruit waste, and will gain innovative skills in
transforming waste into high‐value product. Farmers will also gain valuable tangible
assets in the form of equipment, and applied technology, and the local environment
will become healthier with a reduction in waste dumped in their own backyards.
Bio‐ethanol energy produced by the community will help farmers in the village and
surrounding areas to become energy‐independent, replacing expensive kerosene as
an energy source for cooking.
Via the multiplier effect, this enterprise will also create jobs, and improve farmers’
living standards.
Some of the potential areas for job creation will be in the design, production and
promotion of bio‐ethanol stoves for household use. Such stoves are clean, safe and
cost‐effective.
This social enterprise will also monitor the impacts of the project, for example by
conducting regular competitor and market analysis, and studying the economic
development of the community.
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6. Wangsa Jelita: Empowering Women Rose Farmers in Lembang
Women rose farmers in Lembang sell their produce
to middlemen. They have no access to markets, no
marketing skills and no other skills to add value to
their produce. They sell their roses very cheaply.
Nadya Saib has formed a pilot project to produce
natural soaps using rose petals. She has already been
successful in soap production and marketing,
including through sales to a limited network of
friends and business colleagues. To expand her
production, she has proposed a partnership with a
community of rose farmers and has received a
positive response. Nadya will provide technical
assistance and guidance to farmers in the production
of soaps, while the farmers will provide the roses.
Nadya Fadila Saib Nadya and her team will train the community in
- Wangsa Jelita how to produce natural soaps for two markets; high‐
end consumer and for mass production. Meanwhile, Nadya and her team will be
fully responsible for the marketing and sale of the soap produced. Profit sharing will
be determined based on mutual agreement.
The technical team and rose farmers community will be equal partners in this
enterprise. The team will only provide full technical advice and marketing support
to the community, while the community will produce the soaps and make their own
business decisions.
Decision making in this social enterprise will be democratic. Twenty‐five farmers
will be divided into five working groups, with each group responsible for
operational decision‐making.
For strategic decisions, all 25 farmers will be involved. In this way, rose farmers will
be involved in a learning process and they will be able to run their own community
based‐social enterprise.
The rose farmers’ income will be improved, and several jobs will be created (for
example in supplying soap materials). The community will gain new skills in value‐
added production, management and marketing, and will own new tangible assets
including equipment and tools for producing rose‐based natural soaps.
These farmers will also develop their own businesses and will have a marketing
network enabling them to remain independent. This model for empowerment could
easily be replicated elsewhere in Indonesia, especially in the agribusiness sector.
Related stakeholders will carry out monitoring and evaluation of both quantitative
and qualitative indicators regularly, as key mechanisms for reviewing impacts in the
future. Another mechanism will be by monitoring assumptions through field
observations and market surveys.
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7. Semi Established Finalists
CV Piksel Indonesia: Empowering Women Batik Artisans through Creative
Tourism
CV Piksel offers a solution to a long‐standing social
problem in the batik industry, namely the large income
gap between traditional batik artisans and batik traders.
Trusmi batik village in Cirebon, West Java, is one area
where such a discrepancy can be seen. With an initial
focus on Trusmi, CV Piksel aims to use their own
internationally recognized batik fractal software to enable
traditional poor female batik artisans to develop their own
designs and keep up with market trends.
With this software artisans can spend more time
developing their own designs and less time painting batik,
Nancy Margried improving the quality of their creations while also
- CV Piksel improving their income, Pixel says.
Working in collaboration with a network of hotels, CV Piksel will create an
alternative marketplace for batik creators, by opening “batik corners” for tourists.
Batik corners will function not only as batik sales outlets, but also provide tourists
with opportunities to experience and practice traditional Indonesian batik painting
skills, firsthand. With support from CV Piksel, traditional batik artisans will be able
to act as batik traders and batik painting instructors.
The artisans will be encouraged to develop hybrid batik designs combining
traditional Trusmi batik motifs with contemporary fractal patterns. Selected artisans
will be trained to utilize batik fractal innovation software owned and created by CV
Piksel.
This social enterprise will be owned and managed in equal partnership between CV
Piksel and Trusmi BatikVillage Cooperative. All female batik artisans involved in
this social enterprise are already members of the cooperative and, as such, would
automatically be involved in decision making through the cooperative mechanism’s
board meetings.
The enterprise will have short‐term impacts in Trusmi by improving product‐
development, marketing and IT‐utilization skills. The incomes of female batik
artisans will also improve as they tap into the alternative market through this
creative tourism venture.
The community will also own new tangible assets in the form of design software and
hardware. A marketing network involving boutique hotels in Bandung will be
developed.
This project is expected to improve the income disparity between female artisans and
batik traders, narrow the technology gap between urban and rural areas and
preserve local traditional culture through creative tourism. Meanwhile, the strategy
9. Start Up Finalists
Indonesia Yatimpreneurs Movement: An Integrated Training Programme for
Children
The founders of Yatimpreneurs orphan entrepreneurs
organization discovered that many orphanages could not
sustain themselves on donations and charity alone. Their
research also revealed that conventional orphanages had
psychological impacts on children as charity recipients,
by nurturing a relationship of dependence rather than
self‐reliance.
Yatimpreneurs is an integrated and practical training
programme for children. The movement will partner
with larger orphanages looking to create dynamic and
entrepreneurial environments for children.
The establishment of Yatimpreneurs Academy will be a
Ridho Saiful critical milestone in the development of this social
- Yatimpreneurs enterprise. In future this movement will also work to
establish Yatimpreneurs Endowment Fund to provide Yatimpreneurs Academy
graduates with start‐up capital for their own enterprises.
Indonesia Yatimpreneurs Movement will make strategic decisions, for example on
the development of external partnerships, media communications, network
development and human capital development. Once established, the Yatimpreneurs
community will take over in this capacity.
This social enterprise will create new employment, as new entrepreneurs will need
employees to help them run enterprises, thus orphanages will be assisted through a
reduction in their dependence on donations and charities. Meanwhile, children will
also gain leadership and management skills as well as technical skills related to their
chosen products or services.
In the long term, this program could be replicated at other orphanages willing to
combine economic empowerment with human‐capital development. Once this model
has been applied successfully in other regions, it will contribute to poverty
alleviation across Indonesia.
Here, two strategies will be applied to sustain this social enterprise; the first will be
to transform the movement into a Network Centre for Orphan Entrepreneurs and the
second will be to design the Yatimpreneurs Endowment Fund scheme. This hub will
have four primary functions: It will serve as a centre for information, data and
human resources; innovation, research and development; strategic partnership
development; and the network’s financial management.
10. Urchindonesia: Alleviating Poverty in the Thousand Islands through Sea Urchin
Farming
The population of the Thousand Islands regency, to
the north of Jakarta, have long depended on
traditional fishing for a living. The returns on this
enterprise are low, as the cost of fishing is high in
financial terms, since it is dependent on the use of
expensive diesel fuel.
In human terms, a fisherman needs physical and
mental strength. In bad weather conditions, fishing
over long periods does not produce sufficient
returns. This problem is common in Indonesia
where fishermen are among the poorest group in
society. Most fishermen do not have knowledge,
skills or guidance to breed fish on land.
The Thousand Islands is blessed with a natural
Yuri Pratama resource — the sea urchin. Yuri Pratama is
- Urchindonesia
committed to bringing fishing communities in this
region out of poverty by teaching them how to farm sea urchins.
Members of the community will be trained in integrated aquaculture management.
To enable the community to interact freely with the market, Yuri also plans to help
the with the establishment of a sea urchin farmer cooperative. This cooperative will
manage the breeding and farming aspects of the enterprise. Meanwhile, a company
in Jakarta, directed by Yuri, will act as marketing agent for overseas markets.
As members of this cooperative, fishermen will be involved in decision making
through board meetings. However as the project initiator, the company will play a
key role in strategic decision making.
The fishermen’s income will be improved, and they will gain new skills in sea urchin
farming, thus narrowing the existing economic gap between fishermen and traders in
the Thousand Islands.
As sea urchin farming is not well recognized in Indonesia, fishermen will have an
opportunity to share their skills with their peers in other regions in Indonesia. If this
project is successful, it may be used as a model for empowering poor traditional
fishermen in other areas.
Empowering the cooperative will be the key strategy to guarantee the sustainability
of this project. The cooperative will play a key role in monitoring and evaluating any
progress of sea urchin farming in the future.
Performance indicators will be set and well documented to enable the cooperative to
monitor impacts. Regular consolidation meetings will be held among stakeholders
that will include company, cooperative, association and government institutions to
monitor assumptions that have been made.
