Empowering Dompu’s Women

The Smallholders Agribusiness Development Program is designed to overcome handicaps in the production process of agricultural products and to eradicate poverty in rural areas of eastern Indonesia. Women are spearheading the program.

January 19, 2010

EVERY two days housewives of the Maju Bersama group, a home-based tahu (tofu) and tempe (fermented soybean cake) production business in Hu’u subdistrict in Dompu regency, gather at Turaya’s house. Together they wash, soak, and grind soybeans and sift the soybean flour. Final products are then neatly packed using a press packer.

Two hundred kilometers away from Hu’u subdistrict, in Sorinomo, Pekat subdistrict, women of the Beringin Jaya gro

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