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About KOBUMI

We have the Earth. It is ours. We are one with the Earth.

This is our home—a planet we must protect so it can continue to sustain life for us all.

How We Started

Indigenous rights and environmental protection cannot be sustained without strong, inclusive local economies. Recognizing this, the EcoNusa Foundation partnered with 10 Indigenous cooperatives in Papua, Maluku, and Sulawesi to establish KOBUMI in June 2022—a social-ecological enterprise owned by Indigenous and local communities.

KOBUMI aims to strengthen livelihoods by connecting community-grown products to markets through transparent sourcing, value-added processing, and logistical support. We believe that sustainable economies, rooted in Indigenous knowledge and rights, are key to preserving forests, oceans, and biodiversity across Eastern Indonesia—our nation’s climate frontier.

With the rise of social forestry and Indigenous forest recognition, KOBUMI works to ensure that Indigenous communities are not just participants, but primary beneficiaries of this movement.

Finest Goods of the Eastern Paradise—led by the people who call it home.

Our Vision

Fair trade of Indigenous products for thriving communities, protected rights, and healthy ecosystems.

Our Journey

Our Team

Board of Commissioners and Director

Etik Meiwati

Managing Director

Samson Atapary

President Commissioner

Teria Salhuteru

Commissioner

Tori Kalami

Commissioner

Managerial Team

M. Nur Mandirian Syah

Head of Operations for the Papua Region

Corporate Governance

KOBUMI Group Enterprise

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Etik Meiwati

Managing Director

Ethik Meiwati studied S1 in Economic Management at Krisnadwipayana University. Her career began with becoming a Program Officer of PT. Remdec since 1995. She has also been involved in several organizations such as Insist Yogyakarta and PT. Kawanusa. In recent years, publications related to democracy, community development and disaster management have been published. Her experience as a consultant has been ongoing since 1998 by assisting government and non-government institutions.

Samson Atapary

President Commissioner

Sam is a businessman with more than 15 years of experience in managing the spice commodity business in Ambon, Maluku, and has successfully worked with clients from several countries to export the best spice commodities from eastern Indonesia. Sam has been active in several community empowerment activities (PNPM), the accelerated development program for underdeveloped areas in the Maluku Province region, providing advocacy for natural resources and the environment, mentoring nutmeg and copra farmers on Seram Island, Ambon and Banda Neira. Sam’s current focus is to make the native Maluku spice commodity a superior product for indigenous peoples and encourage the active involvement of sustainable businesses for cooperatives and indigenous peoples to be able to build a joint system with plantation farmers so that they can create transparent and fair trade.

Teria Salhuteru

Commissioner

Teria was born and raised in Ambon City, Maluku. Since 2014 she has been active as a fishery researcher, TV producer, and journalist (2014-2017) and in 2017, she became the founder of the Moluccas Coastal Care (MCC), an NGO which supported by the EcoNusa Foundation in carrying out programs to strengthen the independence of coastal communities and small islands in the Banda archipelago, Central Maluku. MCC is also active in environmental campaigns as an investment for the future. One of the efforts that Teria and her community have carried out regarding commodities is to provide assistance and education to local communities about how to seed and dry nutmeg, the main commodity in the Banda Islands. In 2021, Together with young people in Ambon and Banda Neira, Teria established the Anugerah Alam Maluku Cooperative (ANAM), which operates in the Spice commodity sector, aiming to prosper local farmers and to become a vehicle for local economic turnover to develop Natural and Human Resources.

Tori Kalami

Commissioner

The meaning of Forest and Land for the Moi Tribe is inseparable, the philosophical view of the Moi tribe is Tam Sini, something related to the heart. Because of this, forest and land cannot be separated and become a unitary part of the indigenous people of the Moi tribe, forest and human land, which is called Tam Sini. This is the philosophy of the tribe that raised Tori. Tori as Chair of the Malaumkarta Generation Youth Association (PGM) community, the Moi tribe who inhabit the areas of Malaumkarta, Suatolo, Mibi, and Malagufuk Villages, Makbon District, Sorong Regency, West Papua. Tori has been active for 19 years as an environmental activist and an activist for the protection of the indigenous people of the Moi Tribe. To continue to maintain the continuity and sustainability of the forest, together with the Moi tribal youth, they took the initiative to build the Egek Malaumkarta Raya Cooperative which aims to maintain sustainability, defense of the forest, land and people of the Moi tribe in an inseparable unit from the philosophical view of land, forest as tam here. . Tori also organizes indigenous peoples through the PLTMH (Micro Hydro Power Plant) program and also helps advocacy in the Making of Regional Regulation number 10 of 2017 Concerning Recognition and Protection of the Moi Tribe Indigenous People in Sorong Regency and also PERBUB Number 07 of 2017 in the Malaumkarta Raya Coastal Area regarding the Protection and Supervision of the Egek Area.

Mutual cooperation with KOBUMI is expected to generate benefits in terms of the quality of fishery commodities and an increase in the village economy of the Moi Tribe. It is time for the community to start moving together for a sustainable business to protect forests and indigenous peoples.

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