Gender, Land Tenure, and Disasters in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia Gender and Land Tenure in the Context of Disaster in Asia pp 89-103 | Cite as Carol Yong (1) Email author (
[email protected]) Frans R. Siahaan (2) Andreas Burghofer (3) 1. Sarawak, Malaysia 2. The Asia Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia 3. Director Upper Austrian Branch Office of Gesellschaft Fuer Bedrohte Voelker (GfbV), Austria, Europe Chapter First Online: 01 July 2015 1 Readers 281 Downloads Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace book series (BRIEFSSECUR, volume 21)
Abstract This case study discusses the many challenges faced by the Mentawai people of Indonesia who are increasingly suffering the consequences of unsustainable development and complex natural and human-made disasters. A brief review of the rich biodiversity and natural resources of Mentawai Islands contextualizes the discussion that follows, namely the different threats to lands, forests and natural resources the Mentawai people find themselves grappling with. This chapter identifies a link between gender, natural resource, land tenure, and disaster and argues that nuances around gender and other categories are inadequately addressed or ignored. We focus particularly on three issues: first, locating Mentawai women’s inheritance rights within the Mentawaian patrilineal social structures and customs that circumscribe women’s rights to land and other property; second, the connection between women’s land tenure and gender differential disaster damages and recovery process; and the third, how gendered land rights/tenure interrelate with the difference of loss and suffering of women and men in Mentawai society and how development agendas and interventions construct vulnerability of women and men differently.
Keywords Gender Land tenure Disaster vulnerability Indigenous people Mentawai
Abbreviations HPH Hak Pengusahaan Hutan IPK Izin Pemanfaatan Kayu WALHI Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia YCM Yayasan Citra Mandiri Carol Yong, independent researcher; Email:
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About this chapter Cite this chapter as: Yong C., Siahaan F.R., Burghofer A. (2015) Gender, Land Tenure, and Disasters in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. In: Kusakabe K., Shrestha R., N. V. (eds) Gender and Land Tenure in the Context of Disaster in Asia. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol 21. Springer, Cham DOI (Digital Object Identifier) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16616-2_7 Publisher Name Springer, Cham Print ISBN 978-3-319-16615-5 Online ISBN 978-3-319-16616-2 eBook Packages Earth and Environmental Science About this book Reprints and Permissions
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