GORONTALO is one of the oldest cities in the province now known as Agropolitan Gorontalo. Gorontalo plays a vital role as a city of education, trade, and culture with an area of 16.69 km2 and a population of 162,000. Most of its people are poor as a result of unemployment. But a movement involving aged women in the city is underway, in which they revitalize the Gorontalo ancestral skill of straw mat weaving. Mandom grains providing straw as raw m