Muara Enim, 8 June 2026 – The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Cultural Affairs (Kemenko PMK), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Indonesia, and Yayasan Remaja Indonesia Sehat (RISE Foundation) have officially launched RUMPUN HIJAU (Ruang Masyarakat dan Perempuan Hidupkan Inisiatif Hijau, or Space for Communities and Women to Bring Green Initiatives to Life) in Muara Enim Regency, South Sumatra, a program built on the idea that an energy transition is only just when communities, especially women, have an equal opportunity to understand, take part in, and help shape the direction of change.
RUMPUN HIJAU empowers women and adolescent girls by encouraging greater literacy, collective action, and space for community participation in support of a Just Energy Transition (JET) in Muara Enim. Muara Enim was chosen as the program location because of its strategic role in the national energy sector.
According to data from Statistics Indonesia (BPS) for Muara Enim Regency in 2025, the mining and quarrying sector contributed 69.59 percent of the region’s Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP). This heavy reliance on the extractive sector makes the area an important part of the conversation about a more sustainable and inclusive future for development, and a place where women’s voices in that transition matter most.
Woro Srihastusti Sulistyaningrum, Deputy for the Coordination of Family Quality and Population Improvement at Kemenko PMK, highlighted the close connection between energy issues, climate change, and the everyday lives of women. “We often see energy and climate change as technical issues.
Yet their impact is very close to women’s lives, from family health and the management of household resources to food security and the new economic opportunities born from the green economy. Our main message is that a successful energy transition does not only produce cleaner energy, but also more prosperous communities, more empowered women, better protected vulnerable groups, and a young generation that is better prepared to face the future.”
At the implementation level, the RISE Foundation will support civil society organizations, women, and adolescent girls in strengthening their capacity, building networks for collaboration, and encouraging collective action at the community level.
“Through RUMPUN HIJAU, we want to ensure that the issue of energy transition is understood not only as a matter of technology and policy, but also as an issue that is close to people’s daily lives. That is why it is important to open up more space for women and adolescent girls so they can take part, share their perspectives, and become agents of change in their communities. We believe that a just energy transition can only be achieved when communities become part of the process of change itself,” said Artin Wuriyani, Executive Director of the RISE Foundation.
Over the course of the program, RUMPUN HIJAU will involve at least five civil society organizations, strengthen the capacity of 25 adolescent girl facilitators, reach 250 women, adolescent girls, and members of indigenous communities through learning activities on green lifestyle, green skills, and green jobs, and reach more than 7,000 women and adolescent girls through public campaigns on the Just Energy Transition.
For FES Indonesia, the involvement of a range of actors and groups is an essential element in ensuring that the energy transition can proceed fairly and deliver broader benefits. “A Just Energy Transition requires strong collaboration between government, civil society, and local communities so that its benefits can be felt more widely. Through such collaboration, different parties can learn from one another’s experiences and strengthen good practices that are relevant to real needs,” said Artanti Wardhani, Program Coordinator at FES Indonesia.
Through its launch in Muara Enim, RUMPUN HIJAU marks the start of a sustained effort to put women, civil society, and local communities at the center of a just and sustainable energy transition.
