Indonesia, July 11 -- The Foreign Exchange Village Program run by the Indonesian Export Financing Institution (LPEI), or Indonesia Eximbank, has helped boost weaver incomes by up to 30 percent each in East Nusa Tenggara.

"This program has driven an average increase of 30 percent per weaver, from Rp750 thousand to Rp1 million per month to Rp975 thousand to Rp1.3 million per month," Tenunin chief executive officer Hayatul Fikri Aziz, one of the program's facilitators, said during a media briefing in Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara, on Thursday.

The East Nusa Tenggara Weaving Foreign Exchange Village Program covers 31 villages spread across the districts of Alor, Belu, Sikka, Ende, and East Sumba.

According to Aziz, the program has evolve...