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This week we’re highlighting one of the retailers who’ve put their trust in our brand, here on the island - ARSA boutique located in the gorgeous Trans Resort, Bali. An establishment which not only holds the same values we share but has also opened its doors to an array of brands and designers, whose aim is to highlight the beauty of local culture.

ARSA boutique is a “collaboration between the Trans Resort Bali and CT ARSA Foundation”. It dedicates profits from each purchase towards supporting the preservation of Indonesian heritage and traditional craftsmanship. It is also the store-front to a charity organization, which encapsulates the very essence of our work here on the island and beyond.

Mrs. Anita Ranasari Tanjung, owner of ARSA boutique and her husband Mr. Chairul Tanjung, founder of CR ARSA run the foundation together as a non-for-profit organization whose mission is to “break through the poverty cycle by providing quality education and health services, as well as disaster relief programs” to help impacted communities thrive again.

**Mrs**. **Anita** Ratnasari **Tanjung**

Co-Founder & Chairwoman ARSA Foundation

Since its inception, the foundation has supported a plethora of initiatives such as the establishment of the “Home for the Children in Need” in North Sumatera, which has helped over 400 children find shelter, food and access to education after they lost their homes and were left orphaned by the 2004’s Aceh tsunami.

The foundation’s latest educational initiative is a mobile library which will be used to transport and deliver educational sources to children to poor and remote areas of the country, who don’t have the means to travel and/or have any physical or financial access to a school near them.

And to top it off, Mrs. Anita Tanjung - a dentist herself who fully recognizes the right of each person to have access to health services and medical supplies - has given birth to the idea of another mobile initiative to help provide extra services to poverty-ridden areas - a mobile clinic, which would offer free medical and dental services to those who don’t have the means to afford them. Mrs. Tanjung recognizes that in order for people to fully reap the benefits of the educational services her family’s foundation aims to provide, they’d first need to be in good health to do so.

With full production costs paid back to the craftsmen, whose brands ARSA carries and 100% of the profits made from each purchase donated to fund the various educational and health programs at hand, it should come as no surprise that we’ve chosen to add the boutique to our limited list of retailers. We’re truly honoured to be featured amongst others who wholeheartedly dedicate their lifestyle to benefiting the lives of others!

Stay tuned in the new year as we dive further into the work of the ARSA boutique and foundation and sit down with Mrs. Tanjung herself to talk about her life’s work, the people she helps, the preservation of Indonesian heritage and what’s next for the foundation in 2020.