The Women's Movement Against a Mining Corporation in Gunem, Central Java, Indonesia

Dia Puspitasari, Emy Susanti

2018

Abstract

The relationship between humans and nature is understood on a fundamental level in Rembang regency in Central Java. This understanding is related to the environmental condition and local communities, especially focused on the women in Rembang. The background of this research is the existence of a permit for the establishment of a cement factory by Rembang Regency Government and the Central Java Provincial Government for PT. Cement Indonesia. Society thinks that the permit does not consider the existence of people who depend on the nature in the environment surrounding the site of the factory. The problem focused on in this research is the women's knowledge of nature. This study discussed how the movement and the strategy of the Rembang mothers was to preserve the nature on the slopes of the Pegunungan Kendeng Utara, Rembang Regency, Central Java. This study used a critical paradigm and was analysed using social construction theory, social movements and ecofeminism. The data in this study was primary data obtained directly from the research subjects. The subjects of the study were 9 women, called the 9 Kartini, who were the actors of the cement establishment rejection. The collected data was the subject’s answers to the open interviews. An observation is done by making records of the events that occurred during the field research. The observation also aimed to describe the phenomena that the researcher wants to observe. The construction of a woman as Mother Earth is the internalisation stage which becomes the base of the knowledge of the mothers in the Regency of Rembang. The construction of women as Mother Earth is formed through the process of internalisation, externalisation and objectification. Gender equality is a form of externalisation process for the mothers in Rembang. Their actions are a type of objectification process. The strategies of the movements are based on gender and ecological awareness, which is the ecofeminist strategy in Rembang.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Puspitasari D. and Susanti E. (2018). The Women's Movement Against a Mining Corporation in Gunem, Central Java, Indonesia.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA, ISBN 978-989-758-393-3, pages 124-127. DOI: 10.5220/0008817701240127

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icocspa18,
author={Dia Puspitasari and Emy Susanti},
title={The Women's Movement Against a Mining Corporation in Gunem, Central Java, Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,},
year={2018},
pages={124-127},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008817701240127},
isbn={978-989-758-393-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,
TI - The Women's Movement Against a Mining Corporation in Gunem, Central Java, Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-393-3
AU - Puspitasari D.
AU - Susanti E.
PY - 2018
SP - 124
EP - 127
DO - 10.5220/0008817701240127