Gender, Law, and Policy: International Agreements and National Discussions

By Kim Kerschen

As the largest Muslim majority nation and third largest democracy in the world,

Indonesia has a remarkable history of activism by women. In earlier times, anticolonial

resistance movements included a number of prominent women leaders.

Indonesia is the home of Kartini, a renowned international feminist, Megawati

Sukarnoputri who was its first woman president, and Puan Maharani as the first

female speaker of parliament. Moreover, the first administration of President Joko

Widodo contained the largest number of female ministers holding strategic positions

in Indonesian history. The ministry handling women's affairs has gone through a

breakthrough when it was named Ministry of Women's Empowerment with Khofifah

Indar Parawansa as its Minister.

As a UN member country, Indonesia has ratified all major gender-related treaties,

particularly the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against

Women (CEDAW), and has publicly accepted the responsibility to put gender equality

principles into national law and consistent practice.

This Book concentrates on the challenges of implementing gender-related treaties in

Indonesia and seeks to discover why gender inequality remains prevalent despite the

existing agreed and ratified covenants. Notwithstanding some notable achievements,

real life is not always fair to Indonesian women. Indonesia's maternal morbidity and

mortality rates remain high, violence against women is common in both public and

private spheres, access to reproductive health services is still limited, and women are

underrepresented in key areas of political and public life. Moreover, discriminatory

and gender-biased laws undermine women's livelihoods.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DQVVS825
• ISBN13: 9798348118280
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Endless
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"