Since 2022, PEREMPUAN AMAN has been providing assistance to indigenous communities in Nagekeo Regency who have been affected through the Estungkara program. Lambo Reservoir Development. One of the focuses of the assistance carried out is through economics. PA held an activity entitled Household Economic Independence Recovery Workshop after relocation at Pondok Bina Olangari Ende on September 27-28, 2024. The activity was attended by 18 Indigenous Women from three communities, namely the Rendu, Ndora and Wologai Communities. The facilitators in this activity were Dian Yanuardi and Sisilia Wunu from PEREMPUAN AMAN.
The Household Economic Independence Recovery Workshop activity after relocation was based on a survey conducted WOMEN ARE SAFE in 2023. The results of this survey show that as many as 48% from the community as a whole have remaining land. Or in other words, this number is the community that is not affected by the Lambo Reservoir Development, with an area ranging from 1000–51,249m2.
This certainly shows that most Indigenous Women will lose their land as a source of livelihood. Not only that, Indigenous Women will also lose their knowledge such as farming, raising livestock, weaving and weaving which are practiced to meet daily needs such as education costs, health costs and other household needs. Future assets and crops grown in them which are the main source of income and future savings are lost, neatly eroded by the reservoir pads.
"Only this year can we pick cashew nuts, candlenuts, rice, corn and bananas in this garden," said Mama Melda with sad eyes while picking cashew nuts in her garden which is not far from the zero point of Lambo Reservoir.
Likewise, household economic needs that are only taken from yards or gardens for free will disappear, buried under large-scale puddles of water.
"We do not expect much from the compensation money, no matter how much money we receive, it will run out in a short time because in the future we have to buy everything. Chilies, tomatoes, eggplants, beans, vegetables, coconuts and sweet potatoes that we take for free from this yard, in the future we have to buy all of them," said Mama Bibiana.
This situation is certainly very disturbing for Indigenous Women, especially Indigenous Women with the label of Female Head of Family. Therefore, PEREMPUAN AMAN through this training seeks to encourage capacity building for Indigenous Women of Rendu and Ndora in the economic sector so that they can remain independent after the conflict.
The Household Economic Independence Recovery Workshop activity after Relocation aims to provide critical awareness to Indigenous Women regarding the importance of making changes.
"The changes in question are changes from previous habits, namely utilizing increasingly narrow land, utilizing free time, utilizing all potential agrarian resources and individual and collective skills to restore post-relocation households. In addition, awareness of the productive use of compensation money," explained Sisilia, who was a co-facilitator in the activity.
The two-day activity involved active participant participation in the materials provided. The materials included the Indigenous Women's movement to build community economic independence; dialogue to build the future of restoring the economic independence of Indigenous Women; re-planning the economic potential of Indigenous Women after relocation and getting to know the business planning model based on the resources, knowledge and skills of Indigenous Women.
At the end of the activity, Mama Mince as the National Council of PEREMPUAN AMAN for the Bali Nusra Region invited all Indigenous Women in Ndora and Rendu to prepare themselves to utilize the increasingly limited land, knowledge and skills they have for the sustainability of life.
