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Gender and Agriculture Activities

Women and Family Food Security in Rice Cultivation in

Samba Bakumpai Village, Central Kalimantan

Yuliana

Universitas Palangka Raya

Traditional rice cultivators women's lives in Samba Bakumpai Village, Central Kalimantan have

been faced by unexpected external challenges in carrying out their activities as cultivators,

who are providing food security for the family, as well as becoming housewives. Traditional

cultivating activities became pros and cons after Central Kalimantan was shrouded in haze

due to the Forest and Land Fires (Karhutla) in 2015. Their traditional cultivating activities are
faced with Central Kalimantan Governor Regulation (Perda) No. 15/2010 concerning Guidelines

for Land and Yards Clearing for the People of Central Kalimantan, which prohibits clearing

land by burning. Until now, the governor's regulation has been impacting the women

cultivators as they are fear of the punishment for clearing land by burning.

Their fear occurred because of the arrests by the police against cultivators who burned their
land in Sampit, East Kotawaringin in 2019. Meanwhile, they are also faced with the Covid-19

pandemic, which caused the declined of their husband's income, who provides the family

working on odd jobs such as motorcycle taxi drivers, carpenters, and construction workers.

While on the other hand, there is an increasing necessity to buy internet packages and

cellphones as the main support for their children's school activities since the implementation
of the social distancing policy followed by the online school system policy.

The dynamics of the lives of women cultivators in meeting the family's food, moved

researchers to ask questions, which became the formulation of the research problem, namely:

"How is the strategy of traditional women cultivators to fulfill family’s food when facing a

prohibition on burning the land and their husbands' financial difficulties during the Covid-19
pandemic? The research method used is a qualitative method with phenomenological

approach. The main data collection technique was conducting direct interviews with women

of traditional rice cultivation in Samba Bakumpai Village.

The results of this research showed that: Results: (1) Faced with the prohibition of burning land,

they implemented a new strategy in traditional rice cultivation according to their local

knowledge, namely, between cultivators alternately (scheduled) burning land for their fields to
avoid excessive smoke emergence (2) Food security of their families during the Covid-19

pandemic, it can be secured by the availability of family food barns from farming or called

Kalumpu Parei

Keywords: covid-19; cultivation; food security; rice;

Short Biography:
Yuliana is a Dayak woman who was born on July 6, 1992 in the Samba Village of Bakumpai, Central

Kalimantan. She grew up in a family that likes rice cultivation. She got her bachelor in Sociology Study
from Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Palangka Raya. She graduated from Master

Program in Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (FISIP UGM) in 2017.
She is currently working as a permanent lecturer in the Sociology Study Program, Faculty of Social and

Political Sciences, University of Palangka Raya. In addition to teaching, he has a passion for networking
with civil society institutions in charge of environmental issues, women, and also indigenous peoples, as

well as raising issues of social conflict and natural resources. Some of the networking activities that have a
deep impression to her are participating in

Literacy School of Rainy Season Ecofeminist 2021, participated in Agrarian Sovereignity School 2020,
became a researcher for the 2019 Central Kalimantan Oil Palm Plantation Conflict, and became a

Community Paralegal formed by WALHI KALTENG in 2018. She also has published several books and
articles that can be accessed at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1EysXBjngcUC&hl=en.

In addition to that, she also contributes as a writer to books that will be published, namely: Perempuan
Book Series Volume 1: Women and Media (Syiah Kuala University Press), book (Bunga Rampai) Anthology
of Central Kalimantan Oral Traditions (Central Kalimantan Oral Tradition Association), book: Tidak Ada

Cerita Tunggal and Ecofeminism Essays: Development, Tradition & Food (Ruang Baca Puan & TKPT

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