“Not everyone has a chance to do big things in life, yet every human being was born with a bounty of doing something. No matter how small, apart from their advantages and shortcomings.”
Here, Ruang Terampil Sepatokimin slowly took shape and grew. Reflecting from our shortcomings, we walk hand in hand, build our dreams by maximizing the untapped potentials.
Here, Ruang Terampil Sepatokimin slowly took shape and grew. Reflecting from our shortcomings, we walk hand in hand, build our dreams by maximizing the untapped potentials.
Since 2019, Ruang Terampil Sepatokimin embrace the leprosy survivors community in Desa Liposos, Pakunam, Singkawang, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia. The negative stigma attached to the lepers do not automatically vanish as survivors are stated cured. Social discrimination becomes their scourge once these survivors make a come back to the society. Survivors, whom mostly work as farmers, often being treated differently and find hardship selling their crops in good value.
In order to promote survivors of Ruang Terampil gaining proper acknowledgement, Sepatokimin Initiative designs inclusive training and community building materials to open up wider opportunity to the locals. Ecoprint is chosen in response to Singkawang diverse plant varieties to produce natural dyed motives. Besides, ecoprint does not require delicate hand skills like other craft techniques which helps survivors in Ruang Terampil to learn and follow the production process more easily, despite their physical limitations. Natural dyes and fabrics used in ecoprint also minimize environmental damage to the land soil where survivors grow their crops. Today, twelve households have joined and continue evolving with Sepatokimin Initiative.
Ecoprint fabrics can be made to varieties of functional products with high aesthetique value. It’s manual production process make each ecoprint products unique and limited. In the near future, Ruang Terampil Sepatokimin will continue developing and inovating on new colors and motives to produce attractive designs and products for local and international market. We hope, the broader public acceptance to Ruang Terampil’s ecoprint products will help to boost the survivors confidence as part of our one civil society, alongside with the improvement of their quality of life.
We experiment with local natural resources to expand many posibilities and ideas made into.
We transform our ecoprint fabrics into varieties of functional products to accomodate your daily needs and activities
