Today I want to give a cheer of celebration and appreciation to Helianti Hilman, a friend, mother and foodpreneur. Here's an interview with her in The Asian Entrepreneur.
Heli is passionate about biodiversity and heritage foods. She has cultivated an extensive network of farmers across Indonesia to help small scale heritage farmers connect with broader markets.
Heli has spoken at Slow Food Bali events, including my favorite one ever focusing on Indonesia's heritage rice. We sampled ten varieties of heritage rice from around Indonesia and voted on our favorites. You might be surprised at how colorful and delicious a plate full of rice can be!
Here's a 'shameless plug' for Heli's business Javara:
JAVARA works across agricultural value chains from production to distribution in order to preserve Indonesia’s food biodiversity, bringing community-based products to broader market. Such approach enable us outreaching over 50,000 farmers/food artisans, producing over 600 products, of which almost 200 are organic certified for US, EU & Japan. Through product innovations we grow our export to 18 countries in 4 continents, constituting 90% of our total turnover. In 2013, I was named as Ernst & Young as Indonesia’s Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2014 Javara is awarded by Forbes Indonesia as one of Top 20 Global Rising Stars.
Keep up the great work, Heli!
Photo Courtesy of The Asian Entrepreur
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