There’s no doubt that women contribute to the family economy. To support this role, they are flocking to training. They are members of the Permata Zamrud Sawah Lama Women Farmers Group (KWT) in Ciputat, South Tangerang. Now, women are better equipped to manage their agricultural land independently and sustainably through training provided by the Community Service Program (PkM) in collaboration with Trisakti University. In a series of training sessions on July 15, 27, August 5, and 24, they learned about digital marketing, hydroponic planting, and healthy juice production. The training was led by Dr. Hermanto Yaputra, S.E., MM., CMA, Head of PkM, from the Trisakti Faculty of Economics and Business, who taught digital marketing to equip women to market their agricultural products. The hydroponic planting training was also led by Ir. Qurrotu Aini Besilla, MT, from the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Engineering, Trisakti University.

The PkM activities, conducted by lecturers and students, aim to align with the Key Performance Indicators (KPI). The latest policy from the Ministry of Education and Culture is the implementation of 8 key performance indicators. In this PkM activity, 4 elements of the 8 IKU are fulfilled. They are students gaining experience outside the campus (IKU 2), lecturers carrying out activities outside the campus (IKU 3), Teaching Practitioners on campus (IKU 4), ​​lecturers’ work results are used in the community (IKU 5). This program also supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 2 (Food), SDG 3 (Health and Welfare), SDG 5 (Women and Technology), SDG 8 (Economy) and SGD 17 (Sustainable). This program also supports Asta Cita 4 of the National Priority, namely strengthening human resource development, science, technology, education, health, sports achievements, gender equality, and strengthening the role of women, because the membership of this KWT is all women. With this program, it is hoped that it will be able to increase the participation of women as female farmers supported by knowledge and technology to assist the activities of the women in the farmer group.

This article was published in the Jakarta Post under the title “Empowering Women with Urban Farming.”