Women group in Muara Gading Mas making cookies from powder made from blue swimming crab shells. (Photo Credit: Meutia Isty/EDF)
By: Onesya Damayanti, M. Khazali, and Meutia Isty
“Fishing with trawl must be stopped because it has increasingly reduced my husbands’ blue swimming crab catches,” Sunamah stated confidently during the Lampung Blue Swimming Crab Co-Management meeting on March 5, 2024, representing women groups. Speaking in an official forum of about 50 participants, predominantly male government officials, was something she had never imagined possible before. Read More