The recent activity to promote the spirit of village sovereignty with a theme Exploring the Potencies of the Village was held on Pantar Island, precisely in Alimake, Delaki village, Pantar Tengah district (01/06/2021).
The the training was carried out to respond to the village's abundant potencies, in this case, the local products, such as candlenut, coconut, cashew, sweet potato, corn, walnut, and several other local products that have not been managed seriously. It is a common fact in the rural areas of Pantar island, that the residents were unable yet to process the available commodities into higher value products. Usually, the people sell their harvests and crops products in raw materials to middlemen at very low prices. It occurs because of the limited skills to process the local commodities into higher-selling products and unable to compete in the local and national market.
Responding
to the challenges, the workshop on village potency mapping was carried out by
targetting the village youth who are considered capable to process the local
commodities. To bring an understanding of village potency mapping, processing
candlenuts into natural candlenut oil was held as the first practice. As the
commitment, all steps of candlenut processing will be continuously assisted
until the final stage, including marketing.
Furthermore, hopefully, there will be more creative ideas to process available
local products.
This activity got a good response from the youth and the village government of Delaki and it was considered as one activity giving beneficial for the community to improve their welfare. In the opening speech, the head of government affairs, Jemes Boling said, "This activity is a good step done by young people to raise the prestige of the village because various creative work can increase the community’s competitiveness, which brings a positive impact for the village into the national level, even to be international level.
As the operational coordinator and also the leader of the youth organization, Deriko Wabang told the goal of this activity to respond to the tourist village planning formulated by local and central governments. So, in the future, young people and others can be good hosts to welcome tourists, as well as being the masters of all assets in the village.
At
the end of this activity, Stube-HEMAT
Multiplication in Alor, together with Bernad Liwang, a local Stube HEMAT
activist, formed an English study group and arranged a comparative study on the
processing of local products to a neighboring village, Alung village. There most
of the local commodities are well managed under the assistance of Reverend
Yumince Pinat, S. Th. Hopefully, other villages will soon follow.***
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