Abstract
The global trend to transform land management responsibility from the state to 'communities' or local user groups has neglected the implications of intra-community power differences for the effectiveness and equity of land management. Despite the rhetoric about gender equality that has mushroomed in recent years, a review of evidence from several countries in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, has shown that female participation is very minimal in land management. One basic reason for this is the formal and informal institutional exclusion of women. Moreover, the bargaining power of women within households and communities is categorized as 'lip-service' because patriarchy is seen as bonded to culture or tradition. Further detailed and comparative research is required to identify and analyze the major factors that affect women's access and control over land resources, especially regarding how culture and local wisdom can accommodate this issue and ensure the participation of women in the management of resources.
Highlights
The natural resources sector, especially land and agricultural, becomes the economic backbone in Southeast Asia
The aim of this paper is to explore the participation of women in managing the land, which link the local wisdom in community and the policy from government
This paper began with explaining the women roles in land management which may lead to an assumption that they are still have minimum access and control over their land
Summary
The natural resources sector, especially land and agricultural, becomes the economic backbone in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia leaders tried to empower the community to handle this problem In this phase, concerning on land management itself, but more about how men and women give their contribution regarding to land management. In this situation, the role of women become very crucial, because they do having title as a housewives, but they have a multi-tasking job, as a breadwinner of the family. The role of women become very crucial, because they do having title as a housewives, but they have a multi-tasking job, as a breadwinner of the family They can work as farmers, small-scale entrepreneurs, and workers. Women give their contributions as their own development, and to the social, economic, and the most crucial thing, to the environmental development of livelihood (FAO, 2011)
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