Srikandi Reviving an Open Community Library and Learning Centre

Late 2025, I rediscovered more meaning of literature that just goes beyond the restricted scope I used to have, the love of reading.

I learned from the last couple of months being in a place like Papua that literature is the foundation of human development and human resources. People gain knowledge when they have a place where they can find a good source of information, the ability and willingness to read and applying it into their life. During this chain of events, I finally understood that this the heart of literature is. It is more than just summarizing a story book, a novel, or whether we like a certain book or not. It is to help us think critically and help us enhance our life because today, information plays a similar role like a gold, an asset that can be extracted, refined and monetized. Through varied information eventually as a person, we can better ourselves and collectively raising the human development index and resources.

Perhaps, all this did not matter anymore for a develop nations but as I am going back to my roots, I understand that there is work to be done. Truthfully, it all boils down to this one question I have while I am having my time in Papua.

“What if these could have the same access to information that I had and able to grasp and/comprehend it? Reading is easy but understanding and applying are not.”

Late of last year, I was offered up to revive one of my family branches of open community library and learning centre. This is one of our non-profit initiatives aiming at helping people to get access to learning opportunities regardless of age and gender.
It was like arriving at an abandoned house that I had to fix from the ground up. I promised that I would move to the spot in January but apparently due to me being stationed in far east it has been challenging to do some groundwork. So, all I did was mapping the project and ensuring that the written documents are done. I did a revamp on the logo that it looks like this.

Srikandi Main logo.png

Our open community and learning centre is called Srikandi, drawing inspiration from revered Indonesian heroine who embodies the value of resilience, courage, voice and agency. These values are our north start to approach a sustainable and people centred impact to help us adapt, endure and act with integrity without losing our identity in this ever-changing world and environment.

Our space offers these activities starting from May 2026

• Education and training

• ICT skills training

• Climate Change and Environmental Education

• Culture and

• Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) empowerment.

As of now, this is our space looks like and still on process of revamping as you see on the markers, these are actually how we wanted to change some things and renew the space. More on the progress later obviously but our team and I have already ideas in mind on how to fix this space to be a place that could accommodate our future activities and endeavors.

During my talk last year, it also consolidated my ideas more on how to integrate Hive Book Club into this physical space that we already have.

In this case, this community will serve as the bridge and place where knowledge, reflection and community contributions are document and preserved.

I have been thinking about the concept of RWA (Real World Asset) quite a bit and I think that it is a great approach to give back to Hive through this project.

Something I have been thinking a lot is that through this mechanism.

A minimum of 40-50% of Hive earnings earned from @hivebookclub account where it is used to document the activities (whether HP/Hive) is reinvested into supporting learning infrastructure.
30% for operations & program delivery (internet, logistic, documentation)
15% Hive ecosystem reinvestment (powering up HP, curation, delegation to learners and community voting)
10% for emergency reserves.

Allocation levels will be reviewed periodically to ensure operational sustainability and long-term impact.

As I always believe in community too, it would be nice if one of you could also partake in a shared learning common.

Are you confident about your knowledge in composting, homestead, literature or want to teach a person in the other side of the world your language? You’re basically the one we’re looking for.

At the same time, through our MSME (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) program we can also do fair revenue-sharing policy for products that are distributed through our initiatives. The split would be where product makers receive most earnings while the rest is reinvested to sustain shared learning infrastructure and supporting a knowledge ecosystem that we have including reinvesting back to Hive.

This is just a picture to give how this would work under this idea. Let’s say one of our products is homemade cookies and pastry. In local conversion rates this would look like this, and this is just an example of it.

📍Pricing & Production
Selling price per jar of cookies is: IDR 33,000
Production per batch: 30 jars
33000 x 30 = 99,0000
Production Costs
IDR 600,0000

💸Net revenue IDR 990,000 – IDR 590,000 = IDR 400,000

💰400,000 is reinvested into the allocation of these.

MSMS members get 60%, Srikandi RWA funds 10% Operations 20%and Hive ecosystem reinvestment 10%

For the RWA funds, all purchases are documented (photos and receipts) and published on Hive. This will ensure transparency and accountability.

This is the project that I am planning to do and working on this year. I already have the people and professionals I am working with, a space and we are also registered legally. So, this adds my confidence to go through with this project. This is the initial phase, and I have the need to discuss more with the others.

If you are interested in investing, helping or asking questions, feel free to reach out to me and ask questions. I appreciate the feedback and would love to hear it.


	𝘊𝘦𝘮𝘺 (𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘤) 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝖼𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗀𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗍 & 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘳, 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵, 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴, 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘱𝘰𝘱 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺; 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴.