Maubesi Village is located in Center Rote sub-district. It is established in 1967 with 2.321 km2 area. Maubesi is directly adjacent to Lidabesi in the south, Otanale Village and Sawu sea in the north, Lidamanu Village in the east and Metina village in the west.

Total population in this village is 1.424 people (male: 784 and female : 770), consists of 374 head family. Current village head of Maubesi is Mr. Firlot Pellokila, the tenth village head with his second leadership period since the establishment of Maubesi.

The name of Maubesi is originally from Rote language, “Mau matene besi, Lo’a malanga sak”, with a phylosophy “people with strong will like iron in facing every problem”. This village is famous for its “Rawa Peto” which since 2009, snake-necked turtles were released in Maubesi village Peto swamp. 95% of villagers are farmers of paddy field and dry lands that are used to fulfill annual food need.

Brief Information of Maubesi

Productive Garden Water Project Procurement

Different from Lidamanu village, productive garden in Maubesi using available wells in garden area. To irrigate water from spring to garden, hydroelectricity is used. It can retrench time and energy for horticultural irrigation in productive garden. .

Water infrastructure project covers :

1. Hydroelectricity
2. Electricity Meter
3. Pipe installment
4. Water tanks

All these process involve local community (22 members of productive garden). This water infrastructure project can fulfill 0,5 acre of productive garden water need .

Productive Garden

TLM foundation through village facilitators invited Maubesi villagers to transform 40 acre of unproductive land to be productive so it can be used as their additional income source.

Productive garden in Maubesi villa0ge has 12 family heads as members (22 people

This garden began to be processed since March 2017 by planting red onions, garlics, , green beans, yardlong beans, cos lettuce, water spinach and chili. All the plants were planted organically making them safe to consume and good to sell.

Officials and Community Training on Village Establishment based on 2014 Village Law.

On 2015, Government declared a policy to establish nation from village and it is followed up by the published of Village Law Number 6 Year 2014.

Villages are given autonomy to manage the establishment from planning to developing. Every year, Government provide village fund from APBN (Regional Revenues and Expenditures Budget). The management of the budget is the responsibility of village officials and village community. TLM Foundation takes part to improve the capacity of the officials and the community to

The program is “Officials and Community Training about Village Establishment on the implementation of Village Law Number 6 Year 2014”.