Who We Are​

Founding Background and Organizational Structure​

During the COVID‑19 pandemic in 2020, millions of grassroots women in Indonesia faced simultaneous crises: widespread unemployment, a surge in domestic violence, scarce medical resources, and a lack of effective state relief. In response, a group of progressive young women and women from oppressed backgrounds quickly came together to form an initial mutual‑aid network.

In October 2021, the organization held its First National Congress in Bandung, formally announcing its establishment. Through the congress, a National Leadership Committee​ (Komite Pimpinan Nasional) was elected. Under this committee are three regional leadership committees covering Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi, as well as executive committees at the provincial, city, and regency/district levels. The organizational structure is tightly knit and clearly divided, combining centralized guidance with regional autonomy.

At present, the organization’s main areas of activity are concentrated in Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.

Core Political Principles​

• Anti‑Imperialism: Regards the United States as the primary creator of global women’s suffering, strongly condemning its use of tools such as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Russia–Ukraine war, and World Bank “social safety net” programs to manufacture crises. Views the current Indonesian government as a “puppet regime” serving international monopoly capital.

• Anti‑Feudalism and Anti‑Bureaucratic Capitalism: Demands the complete eradication of feudal land relations (currently only 15.88 % of land in Indonesia is owned by women) and the exploitation of bureaucratic capitalism, seeking genuine economic independence through land reform and national industrialization.

• Women’s Liberation as the Foundation of National Liberation: Recognizes that women suffer multiple oppressions—patriarchy, economic dependence, wage discrimination, sexual violence, and commodification—and holds that only by integrating women’s liberation with the anti‑imperialist, anti‑feudal national democratic revolution can thorough liberation be achieved.

• Opposition to the Current Electoral System: Regards the 2024 general election as a “sham contest for power,” seeing Prabowo’s “provisional victory” as merely a continuation of the New Order under Suharto. Calls for building a new democratic system through grassroots struggle.

About Our Movement

LSPP is not a “women’s charity organization” in the traditional sense, but a political organization that places women’s liberation at the lever for the entire national democratic revolution. It is rapidly growing into an unignorable progressive force on Indonesia’s most hardship-ridden and oppressed lands

Disaster Relief and Community Mutual Aid

• 2021–2022 (Pandemic Period): In Central and East Java, the organization established Women’s Mutual Aid Kitchensand Women’s Safe Houses, providing continuous supplies of food, medicine, and epidemic prevention materials to thousands of families in locked-down communities. They also organized collective production of cloth face masks and soap by women.

• September 2024 – Present (Northern Sumatra Floods): On the front lines of severe flooding in North Sumatra and Riau provinces, women leaders have delivered hundreds of tons of rice, sanitary pads, infant and child supplies, and water purification tablets to villages cut off by floodwaters. They have set up Women’s Disaster Relief Kitchensand temporary childcare centers, and plan to promote women’s cooperatives for post-disaster livelihood reconstruction. Currently, three rescue teams remain stationed in the disaster zones.

Women’s Rights and Anti-Violence Advocacy

• Since 2022: Established a Women Accompaniers Networkin dozens of regencies across Java and Sumatra, supporting over 100 survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in reporting crimes, accessing medical care, and pursuing legal action.

• Ongoing Local Campaigns: Advocated for the implementation of local anti-sexual harassment regulations. Organized multiple “Take Back the Night”marches in Bandung, Medan, and Palembang (2023–2024), demanding improved street lighting and public safety.

Labor and Economic Empowerment

• Palm Oil Plantations (North Sumatra & South Sulawesi): Formed women worker groups in palm oil plantations, advocating for equal pay for equal work, an end to direct spraying of toxic pesticides, and maternity leave. These efforts have forced several plantations to sign agreements recognizing women’s unions.

• Industrial Zones (Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan): Promoted Women’s Savings and Credit Groupsamong female workers, helping hundreds of women and their families escape predatory lending and launch collective enterprises (e.g.,rural weaving cooperatives after returning to their home villages weaving, tofu workshops).

Land and Ecological Justice

• Rural Women’s Land Surveys: Supported women in Sumatra and Sulawesi to conduct “Women’s Land Surveys”, documenting cases of land grabs by feudal landlords and corporations to gather evidence for future land reform.

• Deforestation Blockades (North Sumatra, 2024): Organized women to block illegal palm oil companies from expanding plantations through deforestation, maintaining a month-long protest.

Empowerment of Migrant Women Workers

• Returnee Sisters Empowerment Program: Targeting millions of Indonesian domestic workers abroad, the program helps returning women launch collective projects (e.g., weaving, agricultural processing), challenging the “victim” narrative and shifting focus to entrepreneurship and political education.

Snapshot of Current Vitality and Influence​

As a four-year-old emerging organization, LSPP has established grassroots branches in dozens of regencies and cities across Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi. For every national or regional mobilization—whether anti-violence marches, women worker strikes, or disaster relief operations—it can rapidly assemble thousands to tens of thousands of women, demonstrating remarkable organizational discipline and political enthusiasm.

The combination of progressive youth and poor peasant women gives the organization both a sharp theoretical edge in anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle and deep roots in the daily fights of plantations, factories, and rural areas. Indonesia’s left-wing and student movements often call it “the most combative emerging women’s force.” Many newly joined young female university students say: “Here, we first applied the Marxism we learned in classrooms to the fields and factory gates.”