Central Kalimantan–and especially Palangka Raya–has no visible, inclusive community space, no alternative creative-knowledge hub, and limited locally grounded space for deep dialogue. This is something critical to create, particularly for empowering women. 

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Despite a rich Indigenous Dayak heritage and a growing population of artists, thinkers, scientists, and community organizers, there is nowhere for these people to regularly gather, share, collaborate, or build solutions together.

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Today, women in Palangka Raya work in isolation.

Artists work alone have no alternative space and limited network to grow their creativity.

Researchers carry insights that rarely reach communities.

Local wisdom sits in one corner, modern knowledge in another, separated by the lack of a space to meet.

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The challenges we face: from women’s livelihoods to cultural continuity, from ecological degradation to social disconnection are entangled within interrelated and systemic problems. Yet we have no collective space to try and solve these. 

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This is the gap I have identified, and it is the reason I am now speaking my vision aloud to the creative friends and women around me: to gather, to organize, and to build this space together.