SINGGIH KARTONO,WOOD RADIO
Turning Wood into Radios

The success story of a village boy on the world stage who designs radios in an environmentally friendly way.

December 22, 2009

IT is 8am at the side of the village road in Dusun Krajan I, in the district of Temanggung. The sound of the machines cutting and sandpapering the wood, breaks the silence of the morning. In a two-story building with a width of 300 square meters, 30 workers are busy with their machines. The smell of the wood being sawn is overpowering, merging with the thin mist still hanging around the buildings, standing in the quiet and slow pace of village li

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