Through support from KEMITRAAN, Pundi Sumatra provides weaving training to indigenous women of the Anak Dalam Tribe (SAD) in Pematang Uangat village. The training is quite different. Because they presented the weaving group from the SAD traditional women's community of Dwi Karya Bakti Village as resource persons. They provided knowledge to the SAD traditional women's group in Pematang Jumat Village.
The training concept this time was carried out by sharing experience and knowledge. Providing an overview to the SAD Pematang Jumat traditional women about several weaving techniques. Plus, each community has different techniques for chickens. Such as initial webbing techniques and locking webbing techniques.
Pundi Sumatra also held another weaving capacity increase in the two traditional women's groups. The products being trained are making bracelets and hijab bracelets. As well as making small bags using resam – a herbaceous plant which is classified as a fern.
These raw materials are usually taken from the forest and processed by the community themselves before being used as training materials. “This resam is often found around the forest. Because it's like a stick, it's easy to make into crafts. "Such as bracelets, rings and flower vases," explained Arief as the Pundi Sumatra field facilitator.
The next day, the weaving training moved to Dwi Karya Bakti Village, Pelepat District, Bungo Regency. This activity was quite busy with the traditional women's community and students at the location. This training focuses on using Rumbia Pandan as raw material.
The types of products being trained are making small bags and gelamai sacks (dodol). Each participant is given the opportunity to make 1 woven product. However, in this session we only managed to produce 4 types of woven material, namely 1 small bag and 3 gelamai sacks. For your information, in Dwi Karya Bakti village, pandan is still widely found and is often used by SAD traditional women to make woven mats.
“Indigenous women here already have weaving skills, but they mostly weave mats. "Now we provide training in weaving other products to make them more varied," explained Azim as the Pundi Sumatra field facilitator.
