Mengobrol santai dengan Oktaviana Sitorus, seorang putri dari seorang ibu almarhum penenun dari desa Si Gaol, sebuah desa kecil di pinggiran Danau Toba. Okta dari kecil sudah diajari bertenun oleh ibu dan Neneknya, namun karena harus menuntut ilmu yang lebih mapan lagi, Oktaviana harus meninggalkan […]

We are so thrilled that our glasses finally reached batik artists from many different artisan’s groups in Tulung Agung, East Java.  Tulung Agung is our first distribution of reading glasses to batiks artist since we started the project in 2012.  We are truly proud of […]

For many years we have been trying to meet with weavers in the Lake Toba region of North Sumatra and see their weaving activities closely. Rumor has it that backstrap loom weaving here is dying out as young generation no longer interested to continue this tradition. […]

Untuk pencinta tenun ikat kain Sumba Timur, nama bapak Kornelis Ndapakamg sudah tak asing lagi.  Beliau yang begitu aktif dalam melestarikan tenun Sumba timur dengan menggunakan warna alam, sudah sangat dikelanal di Nusantara, baik oleh para pencinta Wastra Indonesia di manca negara. Team dari Connect […]

Sejak bulan Februari tahun 2018, Connect Indonesia berhasil menjangkau penenun kita di Sumba Timur dan dengan dijembatani para pencinta budaya Indonesia, kami berhasil mendistribusikan kacamata dibeberapa desa di Sumba Timur, termasuk para penenun kita di kecamatan Melolo, tepatnya di dua desa di kampung Pau dan […]

By Nelly Andon “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi. This quote has become our strongest foundation to continue our work with Connect Indonesia, The Charity. Whilst realising the limited resources we have, we concentrate on the […]

By Nelly Andon In August 2016, my husband and I spent 2 weeks touring Flores, starting from Labuan Bajo and ended up in Maumere. We love travelling, and we have been travelling in many parts of the world for over 30 years, but this trip […]

Fatuleu is located in the Village of Oelbiteno Kecamatan FatuleuTengah Kupang Regency (approx. 70km from Kupang city centre). The Fatuleu group is a fairly small weavers group which only formed recently. The group’s program called ‘Program Keluarga Harapan’, supported by the local  Social Services (Dinas Kementerian Social). […]

The team of volunteers in Sulawesi have successfully distributed our glasses to weavers in Palu,  Central Sulawesi. We are extremely excited that our glasses are now reaching more weavers around the archipelago, thanks to our devoted volunteers who have made this possible. A few lucky weavers from the weaver’s group Rumah Peduli/SKP-HAM were: […]