Tomer

The Tomer “basket”
Between Merauke and the border with Papua New Guinea is the Wasur National Park. The villages in the area are poor, but generally people can survive what nature has to offer them.
Tomer is one of the villages in Wasur. The forest provides them with plenty of wood and plant material, for example houses. In the good season the sea makes quite a lot of fish and shrimp. Because of illegal hunting by the police and military, it is increasingly difficult to come by.
Making what nature provides, monetization is often a matter of creating a proper organizational infrastructure and a one-time investment in production resources such as fishing nets, freezers and generators. Hapin now supports multiple groups (kelompoks) in the village engaged in horticulture, poultry farming and fishing.