Participant of YCSE Academy ------------ Cilota (Cili Lontar) Bali is an environmentally-friendly sociopreneur by promoting a local culture called 'Cili' and the village’s resources, Lontar/palmyra palm tree (Borassus flabellifer). Cilota Bali combines the methods of creativesociopreneur , waste management, and the philosophy of 'Tri Hita Karana' (three harmonious relationship between human and God, other humans, and environment); empowering village nature and reducing waste (palemahan), empowering the local community and create the job (pawongan) as well as preservation of cultural symbols of Cili (parhyangan). Cilota Bali produces souvenirs such as graduate gifts in the form of a clock, mini graduate tokens, recycled-shopping bags, MICE event's souvenirs, and others. Cilota Bali hopes to create an inclusive life ecosystem and continuity for the local people besides as the creative profitable enterprise. Our tagline is “WE CREATE, WE SAVE THE EARTH, WE SHARE HAPPINESS” --------------- One mission to minimize waste, culture preservation, and local community’s empowerment eventually brought us, Cilota Bali’s team to commit and unite to be one family with different experienced field and backgrounds as follows: 1) I Komang Sukarma @sukarma (Founder, Craft Designer, & Production Leader ): Komang, that he usually called with, long and craft-skilled experiences since 2004, he leads the team and teach other production team to design the craft and develop the works. 2) I Gusti Putu Surya Angga Buana @anggabuana (Co-founder, Balinese script’s expert, Publishing & Design Leader): He found and created Cilota Bali at the first time in September 2016 with Komang, as well as in same faculty in the university. Now, he is the expert of digital design and publishing, Balinese's script, and documenting in Cilota Bali. 3) I Wayan Roy Juliawan @royjuliawan (Translator, Purchasing & Distribution Leader): Komang and Roy are classmates since they were in university with same major, English Department. Roy has a very good skills in translation and always be ready for purchasing and distribution activities. 4) Anak Agung Anila Kusuma Wardhani @agary (Marketing, Finance, and Public Relation Leader): Gary, this Economics student is excellent in finance management, marketing, and public relation division. Why We Do What We Do? Tianyar Barat village-Karangasem, a part of Eastern Bali where is the biggest palmyra palm tree resource in Bali with the 1.665-hectare land. Although the village has huge natural resources, the people are still lacking in managerial skills. Based on this problem, in September 2016, we came up with a new idea to create a palmyra souvenir project named Cilota Bali, which is packed with recycling management and local community empowerment. a) Cilota Bali has provided 10 families permanent jobs as the production team with stable monthly income. Our team of production is from housewives and some of the men who live nearby with the same backgrounds, that is farmers (their stories can be read at https://cilotabali.wordpress.com/). b) In addition, local secondary students in Tianyar Barat Village have established a small organization named “Bank Sampah (Waste Bank) Cilota” that contribute by collecting rubbish on a weekly basis to be used for the souvenirs’ material. We had been researching the use of palmyra palm tree through long process and trial-error. It took one year to have the experiment and eventually get the correct ‘receipt’ until it shapes beautiful-handmade-unique souvenirs which are most different than others. To develop and sustain the artwork, we finally build this small enterprise by self-finance aid with fundraising; 1) joining some competitions such as National Business Plan Competition in Andalas University in 2017, there we got first place. 2) Besides, in 2018, Cilota Bali was selected as one of the winners of National Young Beginner Entrepreneur by the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Indonesia. 3) In the same time, we had the honorable experience to make some University's mascot or tokens that brought to China, Japan, and Korea in student and culture exchange programs. These kinds of unforgettable and most value achievements make us more motivated and encouraged to work and learn more and more. The team is eager to make the project keep growing, empowering more local people in 20 villages in Karangasem by 2021. To support this, we have been collaborating with the villagers, local government, Incubator Business of Udayana University, communities, suppliers and our friends. We believe that Young Changemaker Social Enterprise Academy is one of the programs that offer that collaboration as well. Thus, we believe being a part of YCSE Academy will provide the best opportunity as we plan to explore and obtain more insight, knowledge, experiences, and network in the program. To sum up, meet up and collaborate with other YCSE’s fellows with the same vision and dream is one of our motivations. Through YCSE’s Academy, we would love to collaborate and share more for our community as well as for our personal careers.