{"id":94162,"date":"2025-02-17T18:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/in-the-name-of-mother-earth-indonesias-kendeng-women-seek-justice\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T18:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:57:49","slug":"in-the-name-of-mother-earth-indonesias-kendeng-women-seek-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=94162","title":{"rendered":"In the Name of Mother Earth: Indonesia\u2019s Kendeng Women Seek Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Baca versi Bahasa Indonesia di sini<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Her name is Sukinah. She is part of JM-PPK (Jaringan Masyarakat Peduli Pegunungan Kendeng<\/em>\/Community Network Concerned for the Kendeng Mountains), encompasses various groups in Kendeng mountains, mainly Pati and Rembang, including the <\/span>Samin Indigenous group<\/span><\/a> of Indonesia, also known as the <\/span>Sedulur Sikep <\/span><\/i>community<\/span>.<\/span><\/i> When others sold their Kendeng lands in Central Java to a cement corporation, Sukinah chose differently. She decided to stay. Sukinah now enjoys a 22 million rupiah maize harvest and <\/span>free flow water throughout the year<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> Sukinah was among the nine Kendeng women who protested the building of a cement factory in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta precisely six years ago. They resisted by placing cement-coated feet in square-shaped wooden craters as a symbol of how the cement would imprison their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe could live without cement but no one could live without water.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

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Sukinah. Photo by Leo Plunkket for The Gecko Project and Mongabay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
People versus corporations<\/b><\/h5>\n

In 2016, the Supreme Court sided with Kendeng residents in their litigation against the cement factory. The cement corporations in the karst mountains were ordered to cease operations. In 2017, the Governor of Central Java issued a new cement corporation license and operations resumed. As a consequence, flooding occurred in the province last January 2023. Until today, the Kendeng people are still fighting to live in peace on their own lands.<\/span><\/p>\n