This was the view for my run this morning. The beaches are amazing and water is so clear.

The Islanders are fighting to keep the palm oil company from planting on Enganno. To combat the rising tensions to bring palm oil to the island, they are looking for alternative ways to make money. They are trying to show the government they can bring money to the Indonesian economy without palm oil. The clan leader is processing and selling coconut oil for cooking and for the skin. He takes the skin off the coconut and lets it dry. Once dry, he cooks it down to make the oil.

This is a video of his house and his coconuts drying.

I was a little disappointed that I did not get to see him cooking the coconut down to oil. Later, I was at a healer’s house and they were cooking coconut down into oil. I am still not sure this is the shell of the coconut. It looks like the inside to me. It smelled really good! The way they cooked it in a wok over an open flame reminded me of my Grandma Poole making lye soap—yep I am old enough to remember cooking lye soap! If you are a video person, the video is below the pictures.