Fariz Aufarifqi
IPMI International Business School
Amelia Naim Indrajaya
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Enigami has utilize niche paper-crafting technique to transform paper waste into usable everyday object.
The Innovation that Enigamipapers made is through the usage and adoption of a variety of paper-based technique, such as pulping, papercraft, paper-quilling, and paper mache, such technique then taught in workshops where participant were then can learn about the utilization of waste.
Among the things made, Enigamipapers has made college graduation gifts made using thesis scraps and wastes and clocks made from pizza boxes among other things, small things yet still related with SDG number 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.
Enigami workshop
At the very first, what Mr Sarudi intention was to have a way to make side money while in college, after a number of less-than-successful attempts, with Mr Sarudi interests in visual design and Mr Rofiq abilities in technical crafting, they soon started a simple project of remaking paper waste as papercraft, and thus it grows until it became Enigamipapers.
Overall, the impact Enigami makes can be seen from the workshops that they made, it has impacted many number of people with applicable skills and knowledge. Enigami has also taught less fortunate people to earn extra income for a living with paper-crafting, giving options to make use of their skills.
Despite the small-scale enterprise of Enigami, it has made considerable footprint in its area, a large number of people have learned to make use of their paper waste instead of just throwing it away. They also promote the value of responsible usage of paper.
All things considered, Enigamipapers has survived for 6 years, it has benefited materially for its 8 person "volunteers'' team from the profit of doing projects and workshop, not to mention the satisfaction of fulfilling passion of teaching and making arts.
Society-wise, it has helped people gain extra skill that are applicable and can be used to support their livelihood.
Socially, Enigami has given the impact of craftsmanship training to PKK (a social empowerment organization for Indonesian Women) members, youths, in line with SDG number 8, which is Decent Work and Economic Growth, while also supporting environmental causes through the nature of their work.
There are also cases when a college student from Eastern part of Indonesia attended Enigami, later when the student came back, he opens his own workshop in his hometown, and also spread the message of environmental consciousness. This has shown that Enigami has had a number of impact on society.
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Muhammad Sarudi Putra Siregar, Founder
Enigamipapers is a small-scale visual studio / art collective that focuses on creating workshops in upcycle and reuse waste papers into art and useful everyday objects, they also receive orders to make papercrafts for event purposes.
It started in 2010, when two friends, Muhammad Sarudi Putra Siregar and Abdullah Rofiq, started a (then) unnamed passion project in college, a project that in 2013 was named Enigami, with 'Eni' came from a wordplay of 'any' and 'Gami' means 'paper' in Japanese, philosophizing as ''Any creation from papers'', read backward, it became ''imagine''.
Enigami has a small organizational structure, 8 person works as tutors for workshops and artists, and getting paid per-project, it has then moving on to improve its accounting processes.
It has done much to spread awareness about environment consciousness by using mostly waste paper as base for the products and teaching crafting techniques to housewives, improving economic capability and opportunity for common people.