“Rusunawa” Community : A Feminist Transformative Leadership

Jakarta has grown rapidly in many aspects. One of them is social life in public settlement policy which gives impact to eradication of slum areas. Many flats are built and provided to those who become the target of that program. It’s called ‘Rusunawa’—low cost simple flat. However, new social problems emerge like adaptation matter: changing habits from previous location to new situation. Crashed by new system—such as paying room regularly every month meanwhile having no permanent job/work yet—gives seriously impact until now. Besides that, losing home also keep them traumatic. In such situation, not all people can change their way of life rapidly till some women—driven by high awareness—struggling to change the community decisively by various sustainable efforts. Therefore, this book discusses role of women in struggling transformation within their community.