Ecofeminism is a move emerges among women all over the world from various
professions as the result of the unfairness towards women who are always being myth of
nature. Ecofeminism in Ayu Utami’s Saman (1998) novel. Saman novel is analyzed by
using feminist approach. The analysis is done by determining three objects: the first is
describing social background of Indonesian in twentieth century, the second is analyzing
the novel based on the structural elements, and the third is analyzing the issue based on
feminist approach. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. There are two
types of data sources. The primary data sources are Ayu Utami’s Saman novel. The
secondary data sources are books, journals, and internet sources related to the study.
Two kinds of data collected through library research, the research analyzed with
descriptive analysis. The researcher pulls the following conclusions. The feminist
awareness upon exploitations to the nature brings them to the action of saving the
environment to create an eco-friendly and women-friendly way of living. The key of this
case is involving and giving empathy to women for their role in the environment.
Therefore it is urgent to understand the local wisdom as a reference by using the
deconstruction of local wisdom to create the reconstruction of a new environmentally
friendly local wisdo
