GPKAI Noken Arfak

The GPKAI Arfak Women's Association is a women's business group that is part of the Indonesian Bible Christian Fellowship Church in Manokwari, West Papua, with more than 100 members including 20 Noken craftsmen typical of the Arfak tribe. Founded in 2006, the initial mission was that GPKAI wanted its members to have independent businesses to produce Noken. Where the noble mission is to participate in preserving the pineapple leaf fiber bag craft in the form of the typical Noken bag of the Arfak tribe which has recently begun to be abandoned by the Papuan people, especially the Arfak tribe.