The Sempulur Market is an agri-cultural community market that Samdhana Institute initiated in Pagerharjo Village, Samigaluh, Kulonprogo, Jogja during the 2019 The Samdhana Institute Partners Meeting (October 11-12) and Samdhana-supported The Pioneers Jamboree (October 13-19). The market’s official inauguration was carried out by Kulon Progo Vice Head of District, Drs. H. Sutedjo, also marked the handover of the ownership and management of Sempulur Market from Samdhana Institute and the other two facilitating organizations, The Pioneers Foundation and Kaoem Telapak, to The Pagerhardjo Village Administration, the village’s community tourism cooperative Pokdarwis, and the village’s youth organization Karang Taruna AKRAPP. 

The Sempulur Market is an effort to revive and rejoice growing, producing, consuming and enjoying own food, and reconnect to the life-scape where it all took place. It is a gathering of local growers and producers of food, mainly, also tools and crafts, art and various cultural products. The market uses its own exchange with specially issued wooden coins for all transactions. Other character of the market is the local/traditional dress code, and plastic free packages, bags, utensils, etc. Under the village’s ownership and management, the market opens every Saturday from 2 to 10 pm.

In addition to reviving and reconnecting local community production and consumption, the community market turned out to be an attractive feature for tourists, especially for neighbouring villagers and people from the wider area, including some foreign tourists, who are enchanted by its locality and indigeneity. 

The JendraNath

Sling shooting from the gravity of Sempulur Market in Pagerharjo-Jogja, a hub for community products were established in November 2019. It is called JendraNath, means a kind of leaf in Abun language of Tambrauw, West Papua. JendraNath has two forms: the store and product development facility located in Kuta-Bali, and the digital platform for product knowledge, learning and trade currently being developed as website and mobile application. 

Both the physical store and digital platform of JendraNath is the aspiration of a market, trade, and learning hub for indigenous and local communities who manage, create, produce their resources for resilience and better livelihood. Jendranath online market can be accessed via mobile apps