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Kemitraan – The Partnership for Governance Reform

  • 'Advancing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Minority Ethnic Groups, with a Focus on Women, Children, and People with Disabilities'
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About Kemitraan

KEMITRAAN is a civil society organisation that supports partnerships among government, communities, and the private sector to foster inclusive governance in Indonesia.

Through the INKLUSI-supported program, ESTUNGKARA (Equality to Eliminate Injustice and Discrimination), KEMITRAAN promotes gender equality, social inclusion, and economic empowerment for Adat (customary) communities—particularly women, children, persons with disabilities, and minority groups. The program works through policy change to expand access to basic services, social protection, women’s political participation, and natural resource-based livelihoods.

Partners and Working Areas

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Activities

Strengthening the Capacity of Adat and Ethnic Minority Communities

Improving the understanding of adat women and ethnic minority women of human rights and gender equality through training, advocacy, and facilitator support—ensuring their participation in decision-making processes from the community level to local government.

Strengthening the Capacity of CSOs and Government on GEDSI

Strengthening CSOs, local governments, and communities through GEDSI workshops and advocacy, including inclusive planning and budgeting, women’s consultation forums, and capacity building for adat leaders to promote inclusive policies at the village, district, and adat institution levels.

Strengthening Natural Resource-Based Economic Empowerment

Supporting the establishment of community business institutions, field schools, and the facilitation of customary forest recognition. Assistance includes management, product quality improvement, and marketing, including business legality and collaboration with the private sector to build a sustainable market ecosystem.

Programme Focus Areas

Expanding access to basic services and protection for survivors of violence
Promoting inclusive participation in development
Strengthening community economy through natural resources optimisation

Programme Strategies

Facilitating access to basic services for Adat peoples and ethnic minority groups
Protection from violence against women and children
Participation of Indigenous women and women from ethnic minority groups
Strengthening Indigenous institutions
Recognition of Indigenous territories
Economic empowerment for Indigenous women and women from ethnic minority groups

Expected Outcomes

Basic services, social protection, and violence protection accessible to Adat peoples and ethnic minorities
Improved economic conditions for women, indigenous peoples, and ethnic minorities through better natural resource management
Government and adat institutions have inclusive policies, budgets, and programmes supporting women's participation and natural resource management.
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Achievement (as of December 2025)

>10,100

Members of adat and ethnic minority communities accessed government services and other external services.

>2,100

Members of adat and ethnic minority communities have received capacity strengthening support to participate in public decision-making forums or processes.

>3,100

Members of adat and ethnic minority communities have participated in public decision-making processes or forums.

>900

Members of adat and ethnic minority communities have joined community-based groups that have been established and are operational.

Inclusive Education

  • Field schools for adat communities — agriculture, harvest management, and entrepreneurship based on local natural resources.
  • “Sekolah Kolong” for inclusive access to education for children from adat communities

Violence Case Referral Mechanism

Violence Case Referral Mechanism: multi-stakeholder collaboration to develop referral mechanisms for violence cases, including for persons with disabilities.

Policies and Regulations

  • Working paper on Justice Spaces and the Protection of Adat Women from Sexual Violence
  • Protection Protocol for Mentawai Adat Women and Children
  • Village regulations on the protection of children, women, and persons with disabilities in Maros and Enrekang
  • Village Regulation No. 003/2023 on the Protection of Children, Women, Persons with Disabilities, and Adat Communities in Bonto Manurung Village, Tompobulu

Economic Groups

  • Savings and loan cooperatives in adat and ethnic minority communities
  • Koperasi Lampion Merah: over 100 women members, with funds exceeding IDR 90 million
  • Support from local governments in the form of training, land, equipment, and capital
  • SAD received fish seed assistance and equipment for three ponds from the Livestock and Fisheries Office
  • The East Sumba Disability Forum received goat livestock assistance
  • Agricultural and fishery products are used to support stunting programs and household food security

Public Participation

Women’s Forums, Disability Forums, and Youth Forums have been established in 36 villages and are active in hamlet and village deliberations, as well as village development planning meetings.
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