Over 700 languages are spoken in the island nation of Indonesia. Many of these languages are under threat due to the spread of the national language which serves as lingua franca in the public school system. The Pamona dictionary project aims to help preserve the Pamona language of Central Sulawesi by translating its vocabulary into Indonesian. The Pamona dictionary project is part of a larger effort to make anthropological knowledge available in local languages for Indonesians through LOBO, an open access journal published through the York Library System.

LOBO is produced by a consortium of academics associated with the York Centre for Asian Research at York University, the Anthropology Department at Universities Tadulako and the Celebes Institute in Central Sulawesi. The journal will offer translations of peer reviewed Anthropological articles into Indonesian for free use by local schools. The journal will also offer texts in local languages. The Pamona dictionary, by a local scholar, is the first issue of the journal.

The consortium also maintains a web site containing an archives of historically important documents in local languages.