JakartaPost-Feb 6
While prolonged drought in recent years in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has disrupted agriculture and other sectors, the water crisis has been disproportionately affecting women, who often bear the burden of domestic responsibilities such as cooking and cleaning. The situation prompted several female farmers in both provinces, including Imakulata Jedia of a women-majority farmer group in West Manggarai, NTT, to work in restoring degraded land and water sources. The efforts eventually bore fruit: plants like bamboo as well as eucalyptus and banyan trees helped improve water absorption and make soil in Imakulata’s village become productive again, allowing farmers to grow vegetables and local food crops for sale. In other villages in NTB, similar efforts also restored drying springs, helping women to save an hour usually spent walking to a nearby clean water source. Baiq Sri Anom Padma from Rarang village in East Lombok, NTB, took an initiative to process piling organic waste and livestock manure around her home into biogas. Baiq, a tobacco farm laborer like most women in her village, then uses the biogas to dry tobacco leaves to replace the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) that has been hard to find across the region. The community also turned its by-product into fertilizer, distributing it to local farms as an alternative to chemical ones. Read more at: https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/02/06/women-take-lead-in-community-climate-action.html?utm_source=(direct)&utm_medium=home_latest.
