Right After Breakfast

Lolo Santosa is the founder of Toko-Toko, an online and pop-up shop. Their shop offers  Indonesian brands that are created and based on Sustainable and Fair Trade principles.  Products range from fashion, home goods and accessories.  They currently work with artisans in Jogjakarta and Flores to create their in-house brand Martini and Milk. Lolo spoke to her father when she went back home to Indonesia. Her family is from an island called Java, and although she had been living in the US a long time she felt like she needed to go back to her roots for clarity. It was clear that the law degree Lolo had achieved in school wasn't feeding her soul. It wasn't giving her the purpose that she desperately was trying to understand. All she knew was that there were little things in her life that were calling her. The environment, sustainable fashion, and the Javanese people that she cared about so deeply. Lolo asked her father a simple question, “what does it mean for you to be a Javanese?”. He responded simply, “being a