When the votes were counted in Indonesia’s 2019 elections, women activists had one thing to welcome: the number of women in national parliament had increased to 20.4%, up from 17.3% in 2014. Many feminists welcomed this progress, hoping that the greater presence of women would contribute to more (...)
Thousands of people marched from Jl. Sudirman to the National Monument (Monas) in Jakarta on Saturday for the 2019 Women’s March to support women’s rights and commemorate the birthday of Kartini, the country’s national heroine and women empowerment icon.
People of different genders, occupations (...)
Many scholars, feminists and activists believe that addressing the lack of female representation in parliament and in political parties is a core issue in advancing women’s interests in Indonesia. As a result, Indonesia has implemented gender quotas for political parties’ legislative candidacies. (...)
An antifeminist group, Indonesia Tanpa Feminis (Indonesia Without Feminists), has launched a social media campaign amid heated debate over proposed sexual violence legislation that pits feminists and some Islamic groups against each other.
A screen capture of the Instagram account of Indonesia (...)
The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) faction at the House of Representatives has rejected the passing of the long-awaited sexual violence bill, saying the bill has a “liberal perspective” that is contradictory to Pancasila and religious values.
“The PKS is determined to reject the draft bill and (...)
Lita Anggraini and her colleagues mobilized thousands of domestic workers to unionize. They also allowed domestic worker issues to be recognized as a national issue.
While massaging her friend’s foot, Sri Siti Marni gave her instructions with a soft voice. The scars on her upper lip, where she (...)
Foreword What a delightful thing to see that this book Sexual Harassment and Denied Maternal Rights towards Garment Workers: A Study on Gender-Based Violence Conducted in KBN Cakung in 2017 [attached below as PDF] can be in the hands of all my friends. Gender Based Violence was raised to be a (...)
Although it was submitted 10 years ago, the Draft Law on the Elimination of Sexual Violence has still not been enacted by the House of Representatives (DPR).
The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) says that the law has been blocked because the parliament sees it (...)
Activists file a complaint against judges who sentenced a 15-year-old girl to six months’ jail.
Indonesian activists have filed an official complaint against three judges in Sumatra, who sentenced a teenage girl to six months in prison for having an illegal abortion after she was repeatedly (...)
March 8, 2018, is exactly 118 years since the Women’s Conference in Denmark which set March 8 as International Women’s Day (IWD).
And, it is more than 150 years since women, women workers and the oppressed went on strike, took to the streets and organised the people to fight together and demand (...)
Colonialism: Where were women?
During the colonial period, there were various resistance movements, both through armed and diplomatic channels, against the authority of the Dutch East Indies, which was considered to be the oppressor. Both avenues in their various forms formed part of a (...)
Perempuan Mahardhika is a women organisation founded in Jakarta, in 2003. It aims at ending all discriminations toward and gender-based violence against women, as well as striving for the equality and welfare of women in Indonesia.
Since its foundation, Perempuan Mahardhika have engaged in (...)
Jakarta. Perempuan Mahardika, an organization dedicated to women’s rights, has conducted a study involving female laborers in Kawasan Berikat Nusantara, a bonded zone in Cakung, North Jakarta, which revealed that their work conditions are far from safe.
The research, which started in 2015, (...)
Harsh working conditions, fear of losing job, lack of facilities haut blue collar workers Some women give birth without maternity leave.
Indonesian women working in factories are still being denied their maternal rights, according to a study conducted by women’s rights group Perempuan (...)
In the world of work, sexual violence against women is a matter that is almost untouchable because it is often considered not part of labor issues. Yet every workers has a variety of identities attached to him or her or they. In this society, women are vulnerable to violence, including while (...)
Each day, twenty women were raped in Indonesia in the period 1998-2010, according to figures of the National Commission on Women (KOMNAS Perempuan), In the Jakarta region alone, 535 cases of sexual violence against children were reported this year and 2521 cases of sexual violence against (...)
My good friend, a Chinese Indonesian lady, recently got grabbed and assaulted, in the middle of Jakarta, in broad daylight.
When it happened, I was in Japan and we exchanged several messages, and emails. This was not the first time such a thing had happened to her and she felt humiliated, (...)
A suicide in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh by a teenager who was publicly humiliated by the province’s abusive sharia police has again put the spotlight on laws that discriminate against women.
The 16-year-old, identified only as Putri or PE, was arrested along with friends during a (...)
The context
Indonesia is in its majority a Muslim country, where religion, upholding ‘family values’ and sexually conservative ideas dominate but it has at the same time a growing sex industry.
Indonesia has no less than 200 localizations , legal or semi legal. It is estimated that the number (...)
As Indonesia’s rural poor are increasingly threatened by dispossession, is it time to adopt a more radical agenda for women and the environment?
Fisherwomen are hard-hit by environmental degradation in West Sumatra. Rebecca Elmhirst
During International Women’s Day this year, women representing (...)
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