Rivitalizing Women as Heads of Families in Aceh (Conflict and Post-Conflict Period

The protracted conflict in Aceh made women feel more suffering, both physically and mentally. Women are the backbone of the family becauce their husbands are kidnapped, killed, wandering in search of a safe place. Women who are abandoned by their husbands are often faced with negative stigma. The term women as the head of the family is an effort to change the view of widowed women to be positioned in the position of roles and responsibilities as the head of the family. Women can be independent and prosperous, just and dignified families. Post-conflict women as heads of families have a role in women's economic empowerment such as women's saving and loans,joining cooperative of nnn-governmental organization and contributing to villge development and development.