2025 Sadli Lecture
Recording in English
Symposium on Social Inequality, Communities and Climate Change
Following the Sadli Lecture, a symposium on Social Inequality, Communities and Climate Change was held to deepen the discussion on this important intersection. The symposium served as a platform for KONEKSI grantees whose research focuses on the gender-related aspects of climate change. Each invited grantee team shared findings from their KONEKSI-funded projects and engaged in discussions with leading experts from academia, policy, and civil society. The goal was to improve the quality and policy relevance of the research through expert feedback and peer exchange. This event was part of a broader series aimed at fostering collaborative learning and supporting inclusive, evidence-based responses to climate challenges in Indonesia.
Slides
Dr Aplena Elen Siane Bless, SP, MSc, Universitas Papua: Maintaining blue carbon by learning from Indigenous Papuan women’s conservation and adaptation strategies in Papua’s mangrove areas
Daniel M.Sc, Universitas Gadjah Mada: Future proofing a basic social service: climate-resilient community-based rural water supply
Idha Apriliani, Universitas Diponegoro: From technical to socio-ecological pathways for climate change adaptation: analysis of floods in Semarang
Dr Lilis Mulyani, BRIN Research Center for Society and Culture: Evaluating the contribution of social forestry management rights towards climate proof livelihoods of women and men in Indonesia
Agus Suntoro, BRIN Research Center for Law: Forced labour and climate change: Keeping a focus on women and children
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Rekaman Dalam Bahasa Indonesia
2025 Sadli Lecture & Symposium event documentation
Slides
Professor Emerita Ann R. Tickamyer, Penn State University
Dr Suraya Afiff, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UI
Professor Damayanti Buchori, Centre for Transdisciplinary and Sustainability Sciences IPB
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About this year’s lecture
The ANU Indonesia Project, LPEM FEB Universitas Indonesia, and KONEKSI hosted the 19th Sadli Lecture on Wednesday, 7 May 2025 in Jakarta. In a special continuation of the gender-focused dialogue supported by KONEKSI, this marked the second Sadli Lecture in the Gender Series, held in honour of Professor Saparinah Sadli. While the Lecture has traditionally focused on Indonesia’s economic challenges, it has now embraced broader interdisciplinary themes, highlighting the intersections of gender in the Indonesian context.
This year’s lecture, titled ‘Colonial legacies and postcolonial agendas: How does the Indonesian gender order move into a postcolonial future to address climate change?’, was delivered by Professor Ann R. Tickamyer, Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography at Penn State University. As in previous years, a commissioned paper from the lecture will be published in the August edition of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES).
Sadli Lecture Abstract
In Indonesia, as in much of the world, women and girls remain disadvantaged in the household, community, and society. At the same time there is great variability of gender roles and relations across the Republic that make it an outstanding testing ground for the impact of gender on disaster risk and resilience. Our research over the past several decades has been to investigate these relationships, empirically and theoretically. We apply a riskscape model to examine the spatial, temporal, and most significantly, social relations entailed in disaster risk, recovery, and resilience. In this paper we start by exploring some of the ways that colonial legacies have structured the exploitation of both gender and the environment and whether and how it is possible to find a postcolonial agenda with hope for a better future for both. We examine the lessons to be learned from studying disaster response and recovery in Indonesia and elsewhere as keys to managing climate change. Finally we propose the use of a riskscape model of disaster and climate change as means to plan and manage both with the ultimate goal of finding transformative resilience.