Sustainability of climate change issues in Indonesia: the voices of women's NGOs

Abstract

Climate change is one of the most challenging threats of the Anthropocene epoch in the 21st century. Various researches have given close attention on climate change in Indonesia. However, there is lack of research which investigate the sustainability of climate change issue among women's non-governmental organizations (women's NGOs) in Indonesia. This paper fills the gap. This is qualitative research which gathered the voices of the five women's NGOs in urban area of Jakarta and Bogor in 2021. This paper reveals the great potential of the sustainability of climate change issues to be carried out by the women's NGOs in their works, as can be seen from their perspectives and programs though with different degree of focus and commitment. Their similar concern on climate change is due to the believe that climate change issues closely related to women's lives and livelihoods, as well as, identified women as important actor in developing adaptation and solutions to climate change impacts. Even more interesting, they encouraged to increase men's gender awareness to give more room for women's voices in climate change decision making to deliver greater results for society.