Peran Istri Dalam Strategi Adaptasi Ekonomi Keluarga Pasca Proses Penggenangan Waduk Jatigede Di Desa Tarunajaya

The inundation of Jatigede Dam triggered a social change to the impacted community. The loss of residential area and agricultural lands have changed the people's livelihood and slashed the family income. The husbands' efforts to find substitute jobs were hampered by age, employment opportunities, and skills. The wives play a role in maintaining family welfare to maintain family welfare by taking advantage of opportunities by their expertise, experience, and capital. Their socio-economic adaptation strategies carried out in agriculture, fishery, and non-agriculture. This research utilizes the mixing method (sequential-explanatory), the qualitative data supported by the quantitative data. Using the adaptation theory from Hardestry (1977), focusing on the adaptive strategies undertaken by the wives in their social-economic reconstructing, post-inundation, occurred changes the number of wives in the agricultural sector decreased from 28% to 6%, fishery increase to 2%, non-agriculture increased from 32% to 52% and housewives remained 20%. Determination 80 people respondents number using Slovin formula. The wives need to provide guidance and easy access to low-interest funding for these wives to build their social-economic life will be successful.