Huma Inay - A Dayak Home for Art, Wisdom and Collective Growth
Huma means home (Dayak Ngaju).
Inay means mother (Dayak To’mun).
Huma Inay is a Dayak home that nurtures, a mother that holds, and a space where art sparks voice, knowledge builds strength, and people become community.
Come looking for culture. Leave with a hungry kind of wonder, roots braided into old stories, and hands ready to shape the next chapter.
A HUB & COLLECTIVE SPACE
The vision for Huma Inay is to build a collective space that nurtures creativity, women’s empowerment and environmental sustainability, deeply interwoven with community care–wellbeing, culture, and genuine human connection.
The place for Huma Inay already exists in a traditional Dayak Longhouse, built in the heart of Kota Palangkaraya, the City of Palangkaraya. Placed on a large block of land, there is ample room for us to grow and respond to the realities of climate change with practical, community-led solutions.
But while our home already exists, we need help to dream this further into reality. That’s where you come in! When complete, this space will include circular waste management systems, solar and renewable energy supplies to help enable an ‘off-the-grid’ approach, and an ethnobotanical garden surrounded by native trees that honors Indigenous Dayak knowledge and biodiversity.
Within this collective space, Huma Inay will also be a safe and supportive place for women to come together as equals, build community, and grow. A place to learn, create, strengthen confidence, share skills, and step into leadership with support around them, so they can thrive and share what comes next.
Join us to bring this vision to life, and be part of what lasts. "The future belongs to those who build it, together."
SEED FUNDING HUMA INAY SPACE
This is a call for seed funding to develop Huma Inay as an alternative Dayak space in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Central Kalimatan completely lacks such a collective space.
This vision is unique, one of a kind, and rooted in my belief as a Dayak woman that has seen the traditional living practices that art, nature, culture, and community can grow together in harmony.
In 5-10 years, we envision this community becoming a strong art–science–culture hub and renowned gathering place in Central Kalimantan.
A centrifugal positive force.
Support My Vision
Huma Inay will serve as a community space. But in particular it will be the base to enable grassroots initiatives to flourish like the new Women Empowering Women Collective (WEWC) that I am currently leading and nurturing to grow. It will be a space where women can connect, learn, create, grow together, and support each other across disciplines and communities.
How You Can Contribute
There are many ways to support the growth of Huma Inay Space and the WEWC. Your contribution—big or small, financial or skill-based—helps us build a vibrant, grounded, community-led space. Below are some ideas:
Financial Support
This includes new constructions (communal office room), office equipment (e.g., monitors, printer, air-con, website) and a one-year stipend for the core team (myself as Founder/Executive Director; Agrina as the Manager; Adya Adiwoso as Creative Writing and Storytelling Lead; Nadia and Elizabeth as our Co-ordinator).
You can contribute through International transfer or Indonesian bank transfer. These seed funds go directly into transforming the house into a functional collective space and sustaining our community programs.
Capacity Building
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Skill-Sharing
We welcome individuals and organisations who can support us through:
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Training and workshops to strengthen our collective's capacity
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Guidance in setting up and running the space
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Mentorship for women in leadership, entrepreneurship, creative work, and community organising.
Creative
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Technical Support
We need help with:
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Website design and ongoing maintenance
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Social media strategy and storytelling
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Branding, marketing, and visual communication.
Fellowship
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Exchange
Support us by offering fellowships, residencies, or short-term exchanges for Huma Inay Space management and Women Empowering Women Collective.
These opportunities expand our knowledge, creativity, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
We Also Accept In-Kind Contributions
Anything that helps make our space cool, alive, and vibrant—in alignment with the dream of Huma Inay Space and Women Empowering Women Collective—is welcome. This can include books, art materials, tools, equipment, musical instruments, furniture, a large coffee machine (and coffee!) or anything that helps us build a creative, sustainable, community-rooted hub.
Ways We Honour Your Contributions
As a thank you for your generosity, we’re happy to acknowledge your contribution publicly or keep your support anonymous if you prefer. Each level of support helps nurture our community-led space for art, science, culture, and environmental care. The funds will firstly go towards the costs of establishing the space (see above), and remainder to fund the following as acknowledge, net of your generosity:
$50,000
Our Women Empowering Women Collective’s working space will be named in your honour and be acknowledged in all our public comms and engagement, and be on permanent display as entry into the space.
$10,000+
Our ethnobotany garden will carry your name and be acknowledged in all our public comms and engagement and be on permanent display.
$5,000
Your name will be carved into our meeting table, a space where ideas and community are built.
$1,000
We will name one of our native bee farm boxes in your honour, or plant a native tree in your name as part of our long-term carbon-sequestration effort to help mitigate climate change and restore our unique peatland ecosystem, with lifelong care for the tree. This will be displayed.
$500
Your name will be carved onto our compost bin, or we will plant a fruiting tree in your honour for our birds’ haven.
$100
We will also plant native flowers to support thriving bees and butterflies.
Less than $100
We will plant a herb or spice in our kitchen garden.
Thank You!
Every contribution, big or small, helps us grow a space rooted in community, culture, and care.
Bank Transfer (Indonesia), supporting immediate operations:
Agrina Magdalena Patianom
Bank Name: BCA
Account Number: 8601064928
SWIFT Code: CENAIDJA
International Transfer, for global friends and supporters:
Rut Dini Prasti H
Bank Name: PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia
Account Number: 790301004529500
SWIFT Code: BRINIDJAXXX
You can also transfer us through Wise/Paypal (we'll be back to this)
LOOKING AHEAD
We estimated we need $150,000 USD to establish Huma Inay Space.
If we reach or exceed $150,000, we will host a landmark Art–Science–Culture Gathering to launch Huma Inay Space organised by WEWC. And you will be invited as one of our special guests!
The launch will be a full sensory experience of culture, creativity, and community.
A celebration of Borneo in its authentic, grounded, and contemporary form and include:
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women leaders
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Dayak musicians & tattoo artists
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local food makers and tradition keepers
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artists from Kalimantan and beyond
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scientists and researchers
Your Support Matters!
Huma Inay is seeking to grow as a Dayak space, not dependent on just one or two major funders. That’s why we rely on many small contributions from individual supporters like you to contribute (as little or much as you can!).
Your support keeps this space honest, community-rooted, and genuinely ‘free’, flowing through me like my Dayak “dragon” blood and the lifeways of my ancestors.
Get in Touch :)
Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan
Contact Person:
Agrina Patianom, +6282350579002