This study was aimed to find out the struggle of the women to break trough the barries of traditional values that placed them under disadvantages. This especially focused on their activities and participations in socio-economics development in Mataram. Restu Anisa, a women corporation located in Dasan Agung was taken as the case from where the focus of this study be elaborated.
Bima used to be well known as a producer of high quality spices, and atracted many traders from Sumatra, Sulawesi and Java which then led Bimanese traders and people in general into a direct communication and interrelationship among traders from other places outside Bima. it in turn resulted in broader contact among different cultures, traditions, and religions. This was the starting point that…