Leonardus called from Bogor. He and ve other members of KTM PPB were sent to YPPN office for a week to attend organic farming training at Bina Sarana Bakti, Cisarua.
I smiled hearing the voices at the other end trying to take turns to speak. I felt slightly homesick a er a week being stranded in Obama’s town because of this fellowship from the US government, the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).
Then Laurensius Edi delivered me the news that really made me wide awake.
“The WK women in our kampung, about forty of them, formed a farmers’ group. They were inspired by us, Bang.”
I was flattered. I was breathing so heavily, my nostrils puffed air ridiculously. No one was looking, fortunately. Edi continued to speak, reporting the latest developments taking place in Loncek and West Kalimantan.