Women in Indonesia: Gender, Equity and Development

✍ Scribed by Kathryn Robinson (editor); Sharon Bessell (editor)

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Indonesia now has its first woman President -- Megawati Sukarnoputri. The debates surrounding her elevation to the presidency brought issues of gender and politics to the forefront of the public agenda, raising crucial questions about the role that women are to play in public life in post-Soeharo Indonesia. The struggle to achieve a democratic transition following the fall of Soeharto's New Order in 1998 has also focused attention on issues of equity and gender justice. This book explores gender relations in Indonesia and presents an overview of the political, social, cultural and economic situation of women. The volume is Indonesia Assessment 2001, a result of the annual Indonesia Update conference organized by the Indoneisa Project and the Department of Political and Social Change at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
TABLES
FIGURES
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
GLOSSARY
PROLOGUE
1. Introduction to the Issues
2. The Mega Factor in Indonesian Politics: A New President or a New Kind of Presidency?
3. The Downfall of President Abdurrahman Wahid: A Return to Authoritarianism?
4. The Year in Review: From Blind Man’s Bluff to Mega Expectations
5. Further Comments on the Economy, with a Gender Perspecti
6. Institution Building: An Effort to Improve Indonesian Women’s Role and Status
COMMENTARY
7. Feminism in Indonesia in an International Context
8. Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities, National Belonging and the New Indonesia
9. And the Winner Is … Indonesian Women in Public Life
10. Indonesian Women Artists: Transcending Compliance
11. Literature, Mythology and Regime Change: Some Observations on Recent Indonesian Women’s Writing
12. Women and the Labour Market during and after the Crisis
13. Women’s International Labour Migration
14. Customary Institutions, Syariah Law and the Marginalisation of Indonesian Women
15. Women’s Grassroots Movements in Indonesia: A Case Study of the PKK and Islamic Women’s Organisations
16. Women’s Activism against Violence in South Sulawesi
17. Gender Mainstreaming and Sex-disaggregated Data
18. The Changing Indonesian Household
19. Women, Family Planning and Decentralisation: New Variations on Old Themes
20. Men, Women and Community Development in East Nusa Tenggara
REFERENCES
INDEX