These women in Indonesia continue to fight fires even as gender bias persists尽管性别歧视依然存在,但这些印尼女性仍在继续灭火。
Donning jumpsuits, rubber boots and surgical masks, these women set out into the smoke to put out the fires for the sake of their families and forests.

Members of the all-women The Power of Mama (TPoM) volunteer firefighting team spray water onto smouldering peatland in West Kalimantan. Photo: Heribertus/AFP
Housework in the morning followed by several hours of firefighting: women in Indonesian Borneo risk life and limb to battle blazes making their communities sick, all while shouldering a sexist backlash.
More than 100 women, many of them homemakers, are volunteer members of an initiative dubbed The Power of Mama or TPoM, patrolling daily for smoke and flames and jumping in to put out fires when needed.
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在西加里曼丹,一支名为“妈妈的力量”(TPoM)的全女性志愿消防队正在向冒烟的泥炭地喷水。照片:Heribertus/法新社
早上做家务,然后几个小时去救火:印尼婆罗洲的妇女冒着生命危险与大火搏斗,保护她们的社区免受疾病侵袭,同时还要承受性别歧视的强烈反对。
超过 100 名女性,其中许多是家庭主妇,是名为“妈妈的力量”(TPoM)的倡议的志愿者成员,她们每天巡逻,查看是否有烟雾和火焰,并在需要时立即投入灭火。
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