Mimika Announces Noken Replacement for Plastic Bags

Mimika Announces Noken Replacement for Plastic Bags

Johanes Rettob, Deputy Regent of Mimika, said that on the 8th day of noken, which fell on Wednesday 4 December 2019, it brought its own meaning, making the Mimika Regency Government (Pemkab) begin to think in the future that it would be able to replace plastic bags to fill shopping goods both in markets and in stores. and supermarket.
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John conveyed this when asked by reporters about the meaning of the anniversary of Noken, after Indonesia fought for Noken, a unique knit bag for Papua, as a world cultural heritage in the Unesco meeting in Paris, France on December 4, 2012.
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So far he said, the form of government attention to craftsmen and sellers of Noken by providing a location or special place to sell. But it always collided with the desire of the seller to continue to survive selling on the edge of the road.
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"The government already has plans for these noken sellers to stop selling on the side of the road. Even though it has been tried, it returns, but it will always be endeavored for them to get a decent place to sell, "he concluded.
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The Mimika Regency Government, Papua through the Department of Industry and Trade (Disperindag) is currently building a special booth for noken sellers who have been selling at Jalan Budi Utomo, in the Eme Neme Yauware Building area.
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The booths located between Buildings A and B in the Timika Central Market, were built using the 2019 Amendment APBD in order to bring order and also to provide a proper place for noken sellers.
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"So, we are building for moms who sell noken," said Secretary of Disperindag Mimika, Inosensius Personal Yoga in Timika, Wednesday (12/4).
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Meanwhile the Mimika Regency Cooperative and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (UMKM) Office has prepared a number of souvenirs as souvenirs that can be purchased by the contingent and spectators of XX 2020 2020 National Sports Week (PON).
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Head of the Mimika Cooperative and UMKM Office Ida Wahyuni ​​said, at the PON event later, local local products in the form of handicrafts, snacks, and clothing were prioritized. "At present the cooperative service has prepared noken (a typical Papuan net bag) to be marketed during the PON later," said Ida, Saturday (12/14/2019).
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The Mimika Cooperative and UMKM Office has accommodated the work of two Mimika native tribe craftsmen, Amungme and Kamoro, to provide noken as souvenirs. Until now, there have been around 10 groups of craftsmen who have been fostered to produce their noken products at the time of PON XX.