Ragam Modal Perempuan Perdesaan dalam Menghadapi Perubahan Iklim di Tengah Subordinasi

Abstract

Climate change causes the emergence of various phenomena in social life. This phenomenon has a tendency to increase uncertainty over the fulfillment of food, clean water needs, health, to the household economy in various communities in rural Indonesia. Women and children are the vulnerable groups who bear more of the burden of climate change. In reality, women are indirectly required to be able to strategize to meet family needs in the midst of the vulnerability of life due to climate change. The strong patriarchal pressure on Indonesian society makes the role of women often invisible and not taken into account in seeking household resilience, especially in rural and coastal areas. This paper aims to identify the characteristics and raise the story of rural and coastal women in Indonesia in the face of climate change. Another thing identified in this study is the variety of strategies used by women, as well as the challenges of subordination they experience. This study was conducted using a literature study method as well as collecting qualitative field findings on the experiences of women facing climate change in various regions in Indonesia. This study draws on the literature from 2010 to 2020 and compares it with field findings on the experiences of women in rural and coastal areas in Java and East Nusa Tenggara in the period 2019 – 2022. The results show that rural and coastal women are proven to continue to carry out various adaptation strategies that tends to be dominated by social capital in facing the challenges of climate change even though its role is not taken into account as a struggle within the community

Women’s awareness of river water quality and their vulnerability to use of Brantas River water

“…The study conducted by Situmeang & Aflaha (2022) seems to be in line with the results of this research, where social capital is the driving force for housewives to protect and preserve the environment along the Brantas watershed. In the city of Surabaya, the women who were respondents to this research had a high level of concern for environmental conservation efforts.…”

“…Taking into account the interactions and behavior of women housewives towards the use of Brantas river water in this study, it shows that women have a weak bargaining position in obtaining resources, in this case water that is of good quality, clean and adequate for their lives. A study conducted by Situmeang & Aflaha (2022) shows that it is women and children who are the most vulnerable in facing a bad ecological environment, including water and air pollution, all of which can also be linked to the phenomenon of climate change. In their daily lives, women are the ones who directly have to fight to maintain the survival and needs of their household.…”

Pemenuhan Hak Kesehatan Reproduksi dan Seksual dalam Kerapuhan Sistem Pangan Komunitas di Perdesaan Indonesia

“…Situasi ini membuat rumah tangga pedesaan yang relatif tidak memiliki akses dan sumber daya cukup untuk bekerja di luar sektor pertanian, berupaya memobilisasi modal yang dimiliki semaksimal mungkin. Pada beberapa kasus di perdesaan, perempuan menjadi kelompok yang paling rentan untuk dimobilisasi (Badawi 2015;Tahir et al 2019;Situmeang & Aflaha 2022).…”