Project Stories

Indigenous Women Group at Coastal Region Project

I (Nukila Evanty) and Rina Shahrullah had the opportunity to take part and share our project on Indigenous Women at Coastal Region in Rempang, Batam City, Indonesia in the APIF Workshop Accelerator Program from 9-15 Feb 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The excellent workshops were supported by the Salzburg Global and The Nippon Foundation. We are so glad that our group could convince one of the international donors. Yes!!! We received grant to conduct women entrepenurship trainings to strengthen the economic capacity of women on Rempang Island in Riau Islands, Indonesia. The project will start from May 2025. We hope other donors will support our project with other activities #apif #salzburg #empowerment #women #economic #capacity building #sustainability #genderequality

Project: Women Resilience and Palm Oil Plantation.
This project is supported by Resilience Fund and GI TOC.
Location : Riau Province, Indonesia.
Project is to capture the resilience of the women who are living nearby the palm oil plantation, their challenges and resilience. Project runs from January 2021 -December 2022.
The output is the documentation of the life of the women and enhance the knowledge and skills of women
Project : Capacity Building to Female Migrant Workers regarding Drug Crimes and Human Trafficking in 2022-2023.
This project is supported by Global Initiative Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) and Resilience Fund. Nukila Evanty (the Fellow) is conducting advocacy to government institutions and Legal enforcement institutions such as Coordinating Ministry of Cultural and Human Development Affairs (Kemenko PMK); Task Force on Anti Trafficking under Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection; National Commission on Violence against Women-Komnas Perempuan; Indonesia National Police Force, Bareskrim Directorate/Unit of Human Trafficking and Narcotic Crime ; BP2MI or National Agency for Migrant Worker Protection; BNN or Narcotic Crime Eradication Agency; also to conduct workshop and socialization with CSOs and Survivors of these crimes (September -December 2022).
Project: Advocacy Prevention of Female Migrant Workers' from the trap of Human Trafficking and Drug Crime 2022-2023, serial meeting with government of Indonesia and law enforcers
Project: ASEAN Civil Society Conference 1-3 September 2023 in Jakarta , collaborated with ASIA Centre to promote the civil society space and rights
Project ; a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) themed “The Problems in Implementing Law 21/2007 on Human Trafficking Crimes to Protect Society from Human Trafficking” at Nusantara II Building, Senayan, Jakarta, Monday (Jul 31, 2023) supported by Resilience Fund
Project: Workshop on Legal Awareness for Female Migrant Workers in Batam, Kepri to prevent from the trap of Human Trafficking and Drug Crime, January 2023, supported by Resilience Fund
Project Stories : Nukila Evanty represented Indonesia on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous People's in New York April 2023.She was also a panelist and conveyed the statement regarding indigenous peoples and their situation on safety and healthy planet