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Ipemi and Indonesia’s women’s ministry prepare family economic empowerment partnership

From Republika · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Ipemi and Indonesia’s Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection discussed a partnership focused on women’s businesses, family capacity and child protection education.
  • Proposed activities include business training, financial literacy, digital and AI skills, market access, parenting education, child-friendly entrepreneurship and information on reporting violence.
  • Ipemi said its members could act as community education agents and referral points without replacing professional protection services.

The Indonesian Muslim Women Entrepreneurs Association, known as Ipemi, is preparing a collaboration with the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection to strengthen family economies while expanding education on women’s and children’s safety.

Ipemi Chairwoman Ingrid Kansil, Secretary-General Nurwahidah Saleh and other officials met Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Arifatul Choiri Fauzi in Jakarta on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. Senior ministry officials also attended the meeting.

This program can encourage economic resilience that starts with the family.

— Ingrid KansilShe described the expected contribution of the proposed partnership to household economic resilience.

The proposed cooperation covers three areas. The first focuses on economic empowerment through business capacity building, financial literacy, digitalization and artificial intelligence, market access and business mentoring. The second concerns family empowerment, including parenting literacy, time management for mothers who run businesses and education on sharing family responsibilities.

The third area centers on protecting children. It includes education on preventing violence against women and children, digital literacy and information about reporting mechanisms when abuse occurs. Kansil said Ipemi’s network of women entrepreneurs could help spread that knowledge in local communities.

There is an opportunity for Ipemi members to become not only entrepreneurs, but also Women Family & Child Protection Champions in their communities.

— Ingrid KansilShe proposed a community education role for Ipemi’s members.

“This program can encourage economic resilience that starts with the family,” Ingrid said in a press statement. She proposed that Ipemi members become “Women Family & Child Protection Champions” in their communities. Their role, she said, would be to provide education, connect people with information and mobilize communities, not replace professional workers or child-protection institutions.

The two sides also discussed “Women-Friendly & Family-Friendly Entrepreneurship.” The concept could include business training with child-friendly spaces and parenting education. Kansil said such measures should ensure that economic empowerment does not increase mothers’ burdens, but strengthens their ability to manage their roles. Fauzi welcomed the collaboration and said it could help reinforce women’s economic independence.

In this way, economic empowerment does not make mothers more burdened, but instead strengthens their ability to carry out their roles.

— Ingrid KansilShe explained the intended family-friendly approach to women’s entrepreneurship.
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Originally published by Republika in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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