My analysis focuses on girls entrepreneurs in Halmahera, Moluccas, in positioning themselves throughout the native cultural perspective, and their optimistic contribution as initiators supporting tourism improvement. Inside a male-dominated social construction, they face challenges operating their companies, however persist regardless of marginalising geographical, financial and cultural circumstances. Preliminary knowledge reveals that the patriarchal tradition in North Halmahera stay sturdy however doesn’t eradicate the will of girls entrepreneurs to run their companies, regardless that the outcomes are nonetheless restricted. As well as, they’ll nonetheless place themselves each as entrepreneurs and housewives. By small companies initiatives girls entrepreneurs contribute to their local people.
This publication was supported by an ANU Gender Institute grant which offered funds for New Mandala and Connecting Designs to run a collection of workshops supporting early profession lecturers investigating problems with gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia to develop their audio-visual analysis communication abilities.