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In Keerom, farmers grows areca nut but it is hard to sell it.

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In Wamena, people love to chew it, but there's no areca nut.

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In this situation, we saw a chance to link mama-mama (Papuan women) in Keerom, who have areca nut trees,

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with mama-mama who sell these on the streets in Wamena.

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Let's us Sell Areca Nut

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We buy it from the Butonese merchants.

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But we don't make any profit.

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How much are these pinang (areca nuts)? 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 it, I display it 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 as well.

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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 areca nut trees can also potentially become agents for gathering (the nuts).

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Itâs a 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) helps us now.

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This 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, but if we want to buy more than two kilograms, we need to pay for it ourselves

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So, the price of areca nut can increase, but it is not a problem if it goes up or down

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We've set our price. 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. Give that chance to the Papuan women

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The Papuan women should sell these, and not the stores

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Take pity on them