Tambat Sago: A Story from Merauke (Tambat Sagu – Merauke pung cerita)

In 2003, after failing the civil service exam five times, Yakobus Yamtap, a Muyu man from Tambat village in Merauke, decided to go back to processing sago, the staple food of the region, and selling it at the market.

Tambat Sago follows his work over more than fifteen years, as he brings the Marind women of the village together to make sago a shared source of income and, at the same time, to protect the sago forests of Marind land from the plantations spreading across Merauke. The film is in Indonesian.