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“There are gatherer/hunter women living today and some of them are more 'liberated' than most women in industrialised society. Many so-called primitive people are not worn down with overwork as so many peasants and urban workers are. A gathering and hunting community will search out the food they need for the present and then relax and play. They do not acquire surpluses, because they have the skills to find food whenever they need it and if they are nomadic there is a disadvantage in carrying too many stores. They may be vulnerable to accident, a snakebite or other hazards of nature, but as long as they can move freely in their accustomed environment their food is all around them and cannot be stolen by other people. Their food is also adapted to the environment and unlike most agricultural crops cannot be destroyed by drought or pest.
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Gatherer/hunters, though sometimes slightly undernourised, are rarely malnourished; vitamin or other specific nutrient deficiencies are rare. The customary diet of the !Kung of the Kalahari desert consisted of eighty-five species of food plant, including thirty roots and bulbs, as well as fifty-four species of animals and they only needed to work a two-and-a-half-day week (of six hours work a day) to provide themselves with an excellent balanced diet. If this is an example of desert dwellers, consider how bountiful was the environment and provision for those living in more fertile regions of the world, which were the very areas to be appropriated by colonial invaders. The nutritionist A.S. Truswell found that the !Kung were healthier than people in industrialised countries, with no dental caries, no high blood pressure, obesity or heart disease. Anaemia was rare and the majority, including the women, had adequate iron intakes. Anaemia is the scourge of women in both peasant and industralised soceties resulting in some cases in more or less permanent exhaustion, as well as poor growth and development in children. It is often perceived as an inevitable state for menstruating or pregnant women. A gatherer/hunter women might be protected form anaemia by several factors. Firstly, her way of breastfeeding would prevent menstruation and the contraceptive effect would protect her from blood-depleting miscarriages as well as pregnancies. Secondly, her varied diet would provide many sources of iron which would be well absorbed because of the high doses of vitamin C she gained from all the fresh fruits and roots she ate. If she were nomadic, this mode of life would prevent faecally spread parasites like hookworm from invading her environment. Lastly, she would not drink tea, coffee or milk with food, which all significantly reduce the absorption of dietary iron. Of course all these factors are rapidly disappearing as conact with 'civilised man' dismantles these ways of life.”

(Sumber: Gabrielle Palmer, 1988. The Politics of Breastfeeding, m.s. 131-132).

Antara rekod terawal amalan ibu susuan di rantau ini dapat ditemui dalam ukiran di Candi Prambanan (abad ke-9) di Jogjakarta, Jawa Tengah:-

“Since the Mataram era, Javanese culture has been an important part of Javanese life. One of the main characteristics of the culture that is inherent in the lives of Javanese people is Inya. Inya is the term for the nurse or mother of the king's baby who is considered a symbol of the fame of the Islamic Mataram kingdom. ….. The practice of Inya in Java itself has existed since the time of the Hindu kingdom. This is evidenced by the depiction of the story of the birth of Lawa and Kusa in the reliefs of the Prambanan temple. The baby was born by Sita while in exile in the forest. Inya takes care of the baby until it grows up (Creese, 2015, p. 76). The relief found in Prambanan Temple does not provide a detailed story about breastfeeding for babies who are being cared for (wet nursing) (Figure 1).”