In Keerom, farmers grow areca nuts, 
(pinang) but it is hard to sell them.

In Wamena, people love to chew pinang, 
but you could not buy them everywhere.

Given this situation, we saw a chance to 
link mama-mama (Papuan women)

in Keerom who have pinang trees,

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

<i>Let's Sell Pinang</i>

We buy it from the Butonese merchants.

But we don't make any profit.

<i>How much are these pinang?</i>

<i>5,000 (rupiah).</i>

Sometimes I buy it from the Butonese. 
I get one kilogram for 70,000 (rupiah).

But for the past several days, it was
for 65,000 (rupiah).

After I buy them, I display them here 
from morning until night.

At night, up until 8 or 9pm.

Sometimes if these nuts aren't sold, 
I bring them back home.

They sell pinang in the small stores 
too, so it's hard to compete.

In that store, they sell kerosene, cooking oil and other stuff as well.

So we mama-mama (Papuan women), what can we do?

We're not into starting a conflict with them. No!

But how do we empower the Papuan women?

If they don't have enough money to begin with, we help them to get it.

They can potentially become agents (distributors) for buying

Mama-mama who have areca nut trees can also potentially become agents for gathering (the nuts).

Itâs a positive competition

We faced obstacles but the Father from YTHP opened a business for us.

He is very kind. His efforts have opened doors for us.

So we think this (business) could make our lives better and happier.

Yayasan Teratai Hati Papua (Teratai Hati Papua Foundation) helps us now.

This help enables us.

We can sell pinang but it's not like before.

YTHP helps us to buy two kilograms of pinang.

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

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

We've set our price. Fixed.

We take one kilogram. If we sell it all, we get 140,000, 150,000 rupiah.

From that we can give 70,000 rupiah back.

So we are asking the government, please take care of us.

Papuan women can only sell small items

Don't give permission to the big merchants (to sell pinang).

They should only permit the big merchants to sell goods other than pinang

Don't put small tables outside the store and sell onions, pinang. Give that chance to the Papuan women

The Papuan women should sell these, and not the stores

Take pity on them