Challenges

Safety of women in camps and resettlements areas.

Widows access to husband's land and assets.

Serious demographic change, weaken the status of women and increase of domestic violence.

Women's mobility restricted with outnumbered men.

Forcible early marriage of young women to early widowers , affecting their education and reproductive health.

Transformation of traditional gender roles or increase in women's workload.

Natalia "Lia" Christianawati with a newly formed women's group at Camp Bukit Soeharto.

The women identified income generation as their priority issue.

Photo: Emily Will, MCC/ACT