Journal of Governance and Regulation / Volume 11, Issue 4, Special Issue, 2022 267 THE POLICY OF GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN FISHING COMMUNITIES FOR POVERTY REDUCTION Ani Purwanti * , Muh. Afif Mahfud ** , Kadek Cahya Susila Wibawa ** , Aga Natalis ** * Corresponding author, Faculty of Law, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang City, Indonesia Contact details: Faculty of Law, Universitas Diponegoro, Jalan Prof. Sudarto, S. H., Tembalang, Semarang City, Central Java 50275, Indonesia ** Faculty of Law, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang City, Indonesia Abstract How to cite this paper: Purwanti, A., Mahfud, M. A., Wibawa, K. C. S., & Natalis, A. (2022). The policy of gender mainstreaming in fishing communities for poverty reduction [Special issue]. Journal of Governance & Regulation, 11(4), 267–276. https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv11i4siart7 Copyright © 2022 The Authors This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/ ISSN Print: 2220-9352 ISSN Online: 2306-6784 Received: 27.03.2022 Accepted: 07.11.2022 JEL Classification: K23, K38, J08, J16, J18, D04 DOI: 10.22495/jgrv11i4siart7 This study aims to find out the policy of gender mainstreaming for women in the fishery sector (Guzman & Kacperczyk, 2019). Women are placed at the bottom of the occupational hierarchy despite women having a significant role in this sector (Szymkowiak, 2020). This study uses qualitative analysis with secondary data which are analyzed by content analysis. The results obtained in this study are as follows. National and regional laws on the fishery sector in Indonesia related to gender mainstreaming is still partial because this is only related to the empowerment aspect. Meanwhile, the protection sphere of the fisherwoman has not been included. This restricts woman’s access to several facilities namely fishing instrument (fishing boat), fishing cultivation equipment (fishing hatchery), marketing (cool chain), and packaging facility. This condition makes fisherwomen live in poverty and makes the gender gap still exist in this sector. This condition will be a vicious circle if there is no policy change in the Indonesian government. So, it is necessary for the government to review the bias gender policy in fishery regulation. Keywords: Gender Mainstreaming, Feminist Legal Analysis, Poverty Reduction, Fisherwomen, State Regulation Authors’ individual contribution: Conceptualisation — A.P. and K.C.S.W.; Methodology — M.A.M. and A.N.; Formal Analysis — A.P.; Resources — K.C.S.W.; Writing — Original Draft — A.P.; Writing — Review & Editing — M.A.M.; Supervision — A.N.; Project Administration — A.P. Declaration of conflicting interests: The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. Acknowledgements: The Authors give their gratitude to Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia, for supporting this research. 1. INTRODUCTION Gender is the cultural expectations of men and women. It can be seen, for example, that women are known to be gentle, beautiful, emotional, and motherly. On the one hand, men are considered strong, rational, manly, and mighty (Haynes, 2012). The characteristics of these traits are traits that can be exchanged (Selasih et al., 2018). Changes in the characteristics of these traits can occur from time to time and from place to place. On the other hand, jobs are usually done by men (fathers) (Hengki, 2021). On the other hand, one of the components of social potential in fishing communities is fisherwomen (Nurbani, Arlina, & Sitepu, 2018). The position and role of women fishers here are very important because they are part of the system of division of labor based on