We discuss the flow field and velocity of active droplets, which are driven by body forces residing on a rigid gel. The latter is modeled as a porous medium which gives rise to permeation forces. In the simplest model, the Brinkmann equation, the porous medium is charcterized by a single length scale \(\ell\) – the square root of the permeability. We compute the velocity of the droplet and the energy dissipation as a function of \(\ell\) and show that the flow field in the interior of the droplet is nonmonotonic as a function of this lenghtscale.