West Kalimantan: a Trappist monastery in the middle of the forest

Monday, August 29th, 2022

The Cistercians of the strict observance, or Trappists, yesterday inaugurated their fourth monastery in the country, located in the village of Penggadungan, in the district of Sungai Melayu, West Kalimantan.

The village where the new monastery is located in a remote area in the middle of the Indonesian forest, a three and a half hour drive from Ketapang and where public facilities are still very limited. The property was purchased decades ago by the then-bishop Blasius Pujaraharja.

The bishop of the Ketapang diocese, Bishop Pius Riana Prapdi, blessed the new facility together with Fr Isaac Majoor, Dutch Trappist leader of Konigshoeven Abbey in Tilburg. The ceremony was celebrated in the Dayak cultural tradition.

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