This year Connect Indonesia is heading back to Lake Toba working collaboratively with local volunteers from a few small local cooperatives, to promote environmentally friendly products, such as basketry from organic materials made from pandan leaves, handmade textiles dyed with natural dyes and organically made […]

This year Wastra Indonesia (www.wastra-indonesia.com), as the main sponsor of our “Tree Planting” projects in Indonesia, has arranged nearly 1000 thousands tree saplings germinations to share with our textile artisans and homeowners in the village across the archipelago.  This planting is arranged in collaboration with […]

Over the next few months, we hope to plant hundreds of natural dye trees all over Indonesia, in partnership with our traditional textile artisans from around the archipelago. This programme is sponsored by Wastra Indonesia (https://wastra-indonesia.com), please visit the website to see some amazing traditional […]

This week, 260 Morinda citrifolia saplings are ready for planting and will be distributed to the weavers of Mbola So, in Maumere, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. Our grower Mr Daniel Sani has been nurturing these sampling for over 6 months, and they are now ready […]

Our “Plant a Million Trees for Indonesia” campaign is one of our major programme in 2021 working collaboratively with communities in Indonesia, particular the textile artisans communities. We know that trees provide so many benefits to our everyday lives, and in our projects, we have […]

By: Nelly Andon This year we were truly proud to have successfully launched a small natural dye garden, as a gift of love to Mata Tulu Deo weaving cooperative, in Kampung Savu, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. We helped build this garden as part of […]

In March 2019, United Nations published ” New UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration”  offers an unparalleled opportunity for job creation, food security and addressing climate change”.  United Nation stated that the degradation of land and marine ecosystems undermines the well-being of 3.2 billion people and costs […]

If you travelled in North Sumatra and pay attention to the gardens around people’s houses, you would be surprised to realise the amount of empty land, dormant with nothing growing on them, and yet people here will literally go to the market and buy fruit […]

By Nelly Andon  I met Limantina Sihaloho on Facebook for the first time in 2008 and had spent some time communicating with her in cyberspace. Limantina is a dedicated Christian, highly educated and connected to the Catholic Churches in Pematang Siantar, the capital of the […]