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Yadi, a member of Tani Subur Village Unit Cooperative (KUD) in Pangkalan Tiga Village, Pangkalan Lada District, Central Kalimantan. Opportunity doesn’t knock twice. That’s the motto of the 50-year-old Yadi who works as a smallholder, cattle farmer, and round tofu seller. He juggles it all to improve his family’s economic condition.  When he was 13 […]

Sutiyana, a group leader in Tani Subur Village Unit Cooperative (KUD) in Pangkalan Tiga Village, Pangkalan Lada District, Central Kalimantan. For 13 years, Sutiyana, a man born in Boyolali, has led Tani Subur village unit cooperative (KUD) in Pangkalan Tiga Village, Pangkalan Lada District, West Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan. His leadership helped KUD Tani Subur develop […]

Ibu Sumarni  Sustainable palm oil has provided many benefits for Sumarni, a smallholder in Lada Mandala Jaya Village, Pangkalan Lada, West Kotawaringin. Sumarni, 53, and her husband have cultivated oil palms for 15 years, but it was only in the last two years that Sumarni was able to apply sustainable farming in her oil palm […]

Ibu Rosdiana, 50, a member of the restoration team in Tanjung Hanau Village in Seruyan, Central Kalimantan. The residents of Tanjung Hanau Village, Seruyan, Central Kalimantan, will have forest areas from the community-led restoration activities. Residents will plant saplings in an area with a total area of ​​10 hectares, which is part of the regency-scale […]

Ibu Margini Margini, 47, is a transmigrant who later became an independent oil palm farmer in Pangkalan Tiga Village, Pangkalan Lada District, Kotawaringin Barat, Central Kalimantan. In that village, Margini had to deal with many challenges and has grown into a tough and resilient woman. Before setting foot on the island of Borneo, Margini used […]

Pak Sarbiyanto Sarbiyanto, a Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certified oil palm farmer, began to change his ways of farming after he realized the importance of sustainability. He has faithfully adopted environmentally friendly practices when growing oil palm trees and harvesting Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB). Sarbiyanto is one of the many farmers in Sukorejo […]

Pak Marlin Marlin and his family moved from East Java to a remote village in Central Kalimantan in the early 1980s. Now, the once-quiet village has developed rapidly from palm oil production, while Marlin has decided to become an independent oil palm farmer and learn about the principles of sustainable farming. Marlin has various types […]

Pak Hendriyono Hendriyono, a transmigrant who became an independent oil palm farmer in Suka Maju Village, Seruyan Regency, Central Kalimantan Province. Through training and certification programs, Hendriyono learned how to manage oil palm plantations sustainably, which minimizes the negative environmental and social impacts of the palm oil industry. Hendriyono, 49, was born and raised in […]

Beatrix, a local farmer from District Sikka Faced with a long drought and extreme weather in East Nusa Tenggara, farmer facilitator Beatrix Rika has urged local farmers in her village to go organic, which appears to be the only feasible solution to help reduce the risk of crop failure and adapt to a changing climate. […]

Ardino (red shirt) Adino, a traditional farmer in Patimburak Village, Fakfak, had to put up with low commodity prices and trade uncertainties for his nutmeg from the middlemen. However, now Adino and other nutmeg farmers have begun to improve the crop quality so that they can sell their crops at higher prices. Adino, a traditional […]