From Conflict to Creations
Mulhan and Muhammad Maliki are two young entrepreneurs from Lombok Island. Involving a lot of jobless people and school dropouts, their handicraft creations have penetrated US and Japanese markets.
September 14, 2011
THE relentless sun was emitting intense heat, but a group of youths seemed undisturbed. They went on smoothing with sandpaper and painting wooden masks on the porch of a house in Petemona village in Mataram district, Lombok Island.
Bowun Emas Group, sponsoring their activity, enjoyed good fortune with an order for 200 wooden masks. The order came from Bethesda Community Development, a non-governmental organization in Yogyakarta. "The community wil
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