Thus, Lumbung Indonesia was founded for the sustainability of collectives in Indonesia to connect, support and share resources by having awareness of the lumbung values: humor, generosity, curiosity, sufficiency, independence, locally anchored, duration, transparency - trust, regeneration, ethics / politics. This platform is aimed for art collectives that live and are lived out by traditions and practices related to the lumbung (granary).

Lumbung Indonesia is a platform for those who are seriously reconsidering bureaucracy and power structures that exist within their collectives and wishing to increase collectivism when thinking about the distribution of surpluses, especially in areas where access and resources are scarce. In the process of forming the Lumbung ecosystem, FIXER also hopes that the art collectives who will be involved will directly or indirectly engage their longtime partners to think about and realize the Indonesian Lumbung ecosystem. A lumbung organization can develop a platform for a shared art space that is able to go hand in hand with other practices in everyday life. Lumbung organizations are the ones that can combine artistic strategy with public-oriented programs, strong networks, deep historical roots, and local sustainability.

Lumbung Indonesia intends to pursue a new artistic economic model. This new arts economic model is expected to restore art to its more useful function: to imagine and to live a new way of life, ecosystem and organization that is more just, humane and comprehensive. Therefore, Lumbung Indonesia focuses its artistic practice on experimentation, activism, and / or imagination in the fields of space (urban, rural and public), economy, education and ecology.

The organizations involved in building these new sustainibility models  will celebrate connectedness, generosity and the quest for rebalancing personal and collective needs. In order to start living and building the sustainibility model, in the first stage, Lumbung Indonesia initiators are those who have already practiced it, as a core principle in their organization, and those who are able to enrich the Lumbung with their own experiences and activities in their respective contexts and with their own resources.

The 12 collectives who initiated Lumbung Indonesia come from a context where contemporary art development and support in their respective ecosystem are far from ideal. Despite lacking access to funds and the so-called ‘global’ contemporary art circuits, they strive in their locality as a cultural powerhouse with their programs and practices. Based on the eco-cycle of life where one entity is born, growing, maturing, perishing, and being reborn, these 12 collectives are on a stage where they are either growing and being reborn in their collective bodies.