Indonesia (2019)
Recording plant usage in Indonesia
Molly spent a month in Gili Air, an archipelago of three small Indonesian islands off Lombok. A predominantly muslim community, this island is known as a no-mans land for psilocybin consumption. During her time, she was asked by the local community to help document indigenous medicinal and culinary ingredients, especially used in cultural recipes by the local warung chef Sunny. Using qualitative methods, Molly recorded plant use using linguistic training to transcribe local terms, folk classification and interview skills. In accordance with intellectual property rights, this information was asked to be documented and left on the island for the community to have a lasting record of their own knowledge. The importance of this work comes from both the product and the process.
She continues to come to Lombok and integrate into the community and research each year since 2019.
