Jakarta, October 28, 2026 – Inequality in land and marine fishing area control in Indonesia's coastal areas continues to widen the poverty gap and marginalize vulnerable groups, especially fisherwomen and indigenous women. In a public forum entitled "Tenurial Meeting Circle: Certainty of Living Space for Gender-Responsive Coastal Communities for Food Sovereignty" organized by Landesa Indonesia in collaboration with the Gender Studies Study Program of the Graduate School of Sustainable Development, University of Indonesia (SPPB UI) and the Indonesian Traditional Fishermen's Union (KNTI) in Jakarta on Tuesday (10/27/2026), experts, academics, activists, and representatives of coastal women called for a real integration between tenure certainty, gender equality, and national food sovereignty.

Governance of land access, control, and ownership is influenced by social relations, including gender relations. This implies that a gender and social inclusion (GESI) perspective is crucial in understanding land and natural resource rights and management. In Indonesia, gender and other social relations (e.g., ethnicity, socioeconomic class, social class, age, religion, marital status) operate within distinct but interconnected land and natural resource governance structures, ranging from the nuclear family, extended family/clan, community, market, and state. This Rapid Assessment seeks to understand how gender and other social dimensions shape land and natural resource governance and rights, and their relationship to food security and environmental protection in inland areas or mangrove conservation in coastal areas in Indonesia. This assessment focuses on land and natural resource governance in Other Use Areas (APL).