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Women participation in economic activities is often limited by social norms, especially in moslems majority societies like Poto village of Sumbawa. Nevertheless, the burden of poverty is forced many women to work in several jobs. This paper aims to investigate how women in Poto involve in reducing their poverty and how it linked to islamic paradigm. This research is using qualitative method to collect and analyze the data through interview, FGD, and direct observation. Respondents were chosen by purposive sampling, while key informants were chosen by snowball technique. The results show that the main strategies of Poto-s women to reduce their poverty are being producer of Kre Alang and labor of on farm agribusiness. Those two jobs are related to islamic values which require some limitation for women to work in public. Furthermore, such kind of women participation in economy has a significant contribution to reduce poverty in the village