Comparative Historical Ethnography of Rubber Agronomy in Indonesia and Malaysia
Rahardhika Utama | 26 March 2024
How have critical political events in the past influenced the divergence of contemporary knowledge and practice? This research investigates the significant differences in rubber cultivation and processing practices between rubber farmers in Indonesia and Malaysia, despite their shared similarities during the colonial plantation era…. [Read more]
Who Needs Saving? Reworking Care and Dependency through Mutual Support Network of Janda
Mirna Nadia | 18 September 2026
This paper examines how a community of janda (widows and divorcees) in urban Indonesia organizes a mutual support network that challenges dominant assumptions about the heterosexual nuclear family and women’s dependency within it… [Read more]
All for the Family: Women Heads of Household and the Heteronormative Family in Indonesia
Mirna Nadia | 18 September 2026
This paper examines how heteronormative family as an ideal shapes inequality in Indonesia. It traces the emergence of the Women Heads of Household Empowerment (PEKKA) initiative and analyzes how it navigates heteronormative assumptions about family embedded in state practices and policy frameworks. Within a framework that privileges the heteronormative family arrangement, women heads of household often shoulder the double burden of being both the breadwinners and homemakers…[Read more]
Save Janda: Who needs saving?
Mirna Nadia | 21 September 2026
Save Janda challenges the stigma attached to the word “janda” and the moral expectations placed on women.
More than seeking inclusion, it imagines a world where women need not be wives or mothers to be recognised as fully human….[Read more]