Preparation for Indonesian Election 2024: Women's Participation in Political Contest (original) (raw)
Related papers
Participating in Parliamentary Politics: Experiences of Indonesian Women 1995–2010
Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities, volume: 3, 2010 (2011), pp. 81 - 97, 2011
This article concerns itself with women’s participation in politics and, more specifically, the representation of women in elected legislatures, in Indonesia between 1995 and 2010. The article gives readers a brief overview of the various ways that Indonesian women participate in politics. Examples are given of women being traditional rulers, having political authority, exercising power, becoming presidents and cabinet ministers, participating in protest movements, and being elected to parliament. The article then moves to focus more specifically on the election of women to the Indonesian parliament. The article analyses positive developments that have occurred in the past decade to facilitate women’s entry to parliamentary politics. Although numerous positive developments have indeed taken place, the article argues that women are still hindered in their attempts to get elected to parliament. Drawing on in-depth interviews, literature reviews, statistical analysis, and long-term ethnographic research, the authors identify some of the factors limiting women’s election, including the restrictive limited model of womanhood advocated in Indonesia, declining cronyism, the ineffectiveness of the thirty per cent quota, the reputation politics has of being dirty, the influence of religion, and the large sums of money candidates need to support their election campaigns.
The Patterns and Influences of Women's Legislative in Simultaneously General Elections in Indonesia
International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, 2021
Gender is one of the essential aspects of the democratic process, including in the legislative elections. In this regard, this study aims to see the implementation of recruitment patterns and the influences used by women, and the factors that win women in Indonesia's legislative elections. This research is qualitative research by carrying out the documentation at the General Election Commission Office and in-depth interviews with women legislators elected in the 2019 general elections. The results showed that the Indonesian government has implemented affirmative action well, indicated by a minimum quota of 30% for female legislators. Besides, affirmative action's success is also supported by recruiting legislative candidates by parties using several approaches, namely the oligarchic approach, the cadre selection approach, the structural approach, the transparency approach, and the dedicated approach. Furthermore, the prevalence and factors that support women legislators' success in the 2019 elections, which have increased compared to the 2014 elections, influence the sequence number and the incumbent candidates' influence. In the end, this affirmative action policy positively affects women who want to take part in politics.
Gender Politics and Political Strategies of Female Candidate in Lampung Province, Indonesia
Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan, 2021
Female politicians in Indonesia are still facing social discrimination when running for election as regional leaders or legislative members. Some of them succeeded in overcoming those challenges, while others still find it difficult. This article studied the implemented strategy by the female political candidate in Lampung province, when facing social discrimination during her candidacy. This case study used in-depth interviews with prominent political figures, observations and documentation. The result showed that the female candidate during the Lampung governor election maximised her social network, apart from other factors that helped her win the election with her political pair. To overcome social barriers and discrimination, a female political candidate should use many strategies, including the extensive use of social media to win the majority of votes.
Women’s Political Representation in Indonesia: Who Wins and How?
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2021
This article analyses barriers to women’s political representation in Indonesia and the ways that women candidates overcome them. Surveying the literature and drawing on three data sources – findings of thirteen teams of researchers studying women candidates running in the 2019 election, a survey of 127 such candidates, and a nationally representative survey of Indonesian citizens – the article identifies widespread patriarchal attitudes as one significant barrier, alongside structural disadvantages. It highlights two distinctive methods by which women candidates aim to overcome these barriers: one group of candidates target women voters and draw on women’s networks to mobilise what has been called “homosocial capital”; another group of dynastic candidates rely on the political and financial resources of (often male) relatives. The article briefly surveys the place of political Islam in both impeding and facilitating women’s representation. By surveying these issues, the article int...
JHR (Jurnal Hukum Replik)
Gender equality is still considered taboo in Indonesia. The stigma that women are weak, unable to lead or even interfere in politics is still widely heard in the general public. However, this stigma can be broken with Law number 22 of 2007 concerning Election Organizers which regulates the composition of the election implementation by paying attention to the representation of women at least 30%, in other words, the representation of women in politics has been legalized in law. The reality is that in fulfilling this quota, especially in Banten Province, it has not been filled to the fullest. The purpose of this writing is to optimize women's representation in the politics of legislative elections for 2024. The research approach uses a qualitative deductive with a qualitative descriptive method by trying to describe the phenomenon of strategies for optimizing women's representation in politics, judging from the facts on the ground that the 2019 legislative elections in Banten ...
Challenges Faced by Women Legislators in Indonesia : A Case Study from Cirebon , West Java
2014
Women's representation in Indonesian politics has entered a new era following the introduction of affirmative action policy through the 2002 Political Party Law and the 2003 Electoral Law which was then expanded and strengthened in the 2008 Electoral Law. The said laws have the potential to improve women's representation in the political sphere by stipulating that each participating political party must include at least 30 per cent (30%) women in its candidate list. Without a doubt, this affirmative action policy in the form of a gender quota system has brought new hopes for Indonesian women to be meaningfully involved in Indonesia’s political processes. Nevertheless, empirical evidence shows that this is not always the case. Indonesian women have faced significant resistance and challenges not only when they tried to run for election, but also when they performed as legislators in their respective legislative institutions. How can this phenomenon be explained? What sort of ...
Women's Political Participation in Indonesia's Reform Era: Local Government Perspective
Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethics in Governance (ICONEG 2016), 2017
Women's political participation is defined as the actual and equal involvement in the implementation of various government activities, whether through election or appointment. Various studies have shown that the quantity and quality of active involvement of women in public life is essential. The study aimed for increase in women's participation has been correlated with economic growth, cohesion and sustainable conflict resolution. Having said that, the phenomenon in Indonesia shows that women's political participation is still considered low amidst the nation's transition towards democracy era. How this problem can be explained? This study will specifically discuss a variety of phenomena related to women's political participation and its problems and challenges. Instead of using national perspective, this paper will use local perspective in order to gain different information and results.
2021
lopment Goals (SDGs). Gender equality is a human right, and is vital for a peaceful, prosperous world. In Indonesia context, gender equality is one of the government policy on the involvement of women in the politics. This study aims to analyze gender equality in Indonesian politics with case study in the Regional House of Representatives in Manado City. This research will focus on how the women members of the Regional House of Representatives in Manado City in the periods of 2014-2019 take a role and responsibility to address the aspiration from society. This study uses qualitative research methods by collecting data through in-depth interviews. The results showed that women legislative candidates in the Manado city does not get an obstacle to involved in the local politics, this is because the people of Manado City adhere to an egalitarian culture. However, the number of women's representation are still considered unable to represent the interests and aspirations of the women&...
Challenges Faced by Women Legislators in Indonesia: A Case Study from Cirebon, West Java1
Women's representation in Indonesian politics has entered a new era following the introduction of affirmative action policy through the 2002 Political Party Law and the 2003 Electoral Law which was then expanded and strengthened in the 2008 Electoral Law. The said laws have the potential to improve women's representation in the political sphere by stipulating that each participating political party must include at least 30 per cent (30%) women in its candidate list. Without a doubt, this affirmative action policy in the form of a gender quota system has brought new hopes for Indonesian women to be meaningfully involved in Indonesia's political processes. Nevertheless, empirical evidence shows that this is not always the case. Indonesian women have faced significant resistance and challenges not only when they tried to run for election, but also when they performed as legislators in their respective legislative institutions. How can this phenomenon be explained? What sort of resistance and challenges have they faced? How do they cope with such resistance and challenges? This paper tries to answer these questions by specifically discussing a case study of women legislators in local representative assemblies (DPRD) in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia.
Women And Election: A Case Study Of 2013 Sarawak General Election
This paper examines the women’s political participation as election candidates in Sarawak. The study will center on the behind scenes of the 2013 General Election / GE13 (Sarawak Parliamentary seats). The investigation aims to contribute to the existing resource on women's political participation in Sarawak and Malaysia in general. The generated data may support the clamor for more participation of women as election candidates in Malaysian politics, particularly in Sarawak. The objectives are to produce a comprehensive gender ranking of political parties‟ candidates list for 2013 election and to highlight issues pertaining to women's participation in this electoral politics. There is a record number of women (eight candidates) contested in GE13 for Sarawak constituency areas and five of the eight women candidates won their election. Further, some of the interesting features in this election are the ability of the winners to gain more votes from the male candidates which also indicated their popularity even though they were fielded for the first time (for example a female candidate from PBB). Thus, a candidate’s gender does not seem to be a major factor for voters in deciding when they decide whom to vote. It is also interesting to observe the battle between two big political parties that represents the Bumiputera (PBB) and the Chinese dominated party (DAP) continued to field the women candidates and eventually won with a big majority. The remaining PBB‟s counterpart, SUPP and, PRS remains a status quo for not fielding any women candidates in the 2008 GE and the 10th State Election in 2011. On the other hand, SPDP stays staunch with the sole woman candidate since Sarawak State Election of 2006. With no women candidates in the said parties indicated the question of how serious are the political parties in pursuing women’s wish to their political participation in the government. Therefore, this study will aim or attempt to establish that it is evident that men still dominate the electoral candidatures in Sarawak.