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Let Us Grow Areca Nuts / Mama Pinang

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    In Keerom, farmers grow areca nuts,
    (pinang) but it is hard to sell them.
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    In Wamena, people love to chew pinang,
    but do not grow the trees.
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    Given this situation, we saw a chance to
    link mama-mama (Papuan women)
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    in Keerom who have pinang trees
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    with mama-mama who sell them on
    the streets in Wamena.
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    Let's Sell Pinang
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    We can buy them from the Butonese
    merchants
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    but we don't make any profit.
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    How much are these pinang?
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    5,000 (rupiah).
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    Sometimes I buy it from the Butonese.
    I get one kilogram for 70,000 (rupiah).
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    But for the past several days, it was
    for 65,000 (rupiah).
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    After I buy them, I display them here
    from morning until night.
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    At night, up until 8 or 9pm.
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    Sometimes if these nuts aren't sold,
    I bring them back home.
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    They sell pinang in the small stores
    too, so it's hard to compete.
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    In that store, they sell kerosene,
    cooking oil and other stuff too.
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    So we mama-mama (Papuan women),
    what can we do?
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    We're not into starting a conflict
    with them. No!
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    But how do we empower the
    Papuan women?
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    If they don't have enough money to
    begin with, we help them to get it.
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    They can potentially become agents
    (distributors) for buying.
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    Mama-mama who have pinang trees could
    also potentially become distributors.
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    It is positive competition.
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    We faced obstacles but the Father
    from YTHP opened a business for us.
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    He is very kind. His efforts have
    opened doors for us.
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    So we think this (business) could
    make our lives better and happier.
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    Yayasan Teratai Hati Papua (Teratai
    Hati Papua Foundation) assists us now.
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    Their help enables us.
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    We can sell pinang but it's not like
    before.
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    YTHP helps us to buy two kilograms
    of pinang.
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    We can buy three kilograms.
    It depends on us.
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    But if we want to buy more than two
    kilograms, we must pay for it ourselves.
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    So, the price of pinang can increase, but
    it's not a problem if it goes up or down.
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    We've set our price. It's fixed.
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    We take one kilogram. If we sell it all,
    we get 140,000, 150,000 rupiah.
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    From that we can give 70,000 rupiah
    back.
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    So we are asking the government,
    please take care of us.
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    Papuan women can only sell small items.
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    Don't give permission to the big merchants
    (to sell pinang).
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    They should only permit the big merchants
    to sell goods other than pinang.
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    Don't put small tables outside the store
    and sell onions, pinang.
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    Give that chance to the Papuan women.
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    The Papuan women should sell these items
    and not the stores.
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    Take pity on them.
Title:
Let Us Grow Areca Nuts / Mama Pinang
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Video Language:
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Duration:
04:11

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