Cofo

The word Kofo or hote in the daily language of the Sangihe people, is a type of banana plant that grows abundantly in the Sangihe & Talaud islands for centuries. In 1979 the last Kofo cloth was displayed in Yogyakarta by Mrs. Makatengkeng Rodingan and in 2016 the Kofo cloth was exhibited at the Jakarta Textile Museum, which is the collection of Mr/Ms Joe Seda. The last history of Kofo cloth was in 1979. Kofo cloth from North Sulawesi was officially declared a non-material heritage that must be preserved and protected among 33 Indonesian traditional textiles by the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2017."