Susenas (National Economics Census) Data of Indonesia 2007 pointed out that number of household who is headed by a woman has achieved 13.60 % or approximately 6 million households which covered more than 30 million citizens. If it was compared with Data 2001 when the first time PEKKA was considered was less than 13 %, this data pointed out a trend of woman headed household progress was average at 0.1 % per year. |
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It’s late morning on a bustling street in South Jakarta and children are pouring out of a small neighborhood preschool to ride the bright yellow ducks of the odong-odong street ride parked nearby.
Siti Rusmawati, 45, and her husband Suryadi, 47, are the proud parents of five children and the grandparents of two. The family lives in one small room in a slum area of Penjaringan in North Jakarta. On any given day, you can find Siti by her warung selling goods and speaking with neighbors. She flashes them a smile when they call out her name, revealing a metal front tooth.
