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INDONESIA UPDATE 2001 GENDER EQUITY AND
DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA
Kathryn Robinson
To cite this article: Kathryn Robinson (2001) INDONESIA UPDATE 2001 GENDER EQUITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 37:3, 385-386, DOI: 10.1080/00074910152669190
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BulletinofIndonesianEconomicStudies,Vol.37,No.3,2001:385–6
ISSN0007-4918print/ISSN1472-7234online/01/030385-2 ©2001IndonesiaProjectANU ConferenceReport
INDONES IA
UPDATE
2001
G ENDER
EQUITY
AND
D EVELOPMENT
IN
IND ONESIA
KathrynRobinson
ANU
‘Indonesia now has its first woman President—Megawati Sukarnoputri—
whichonthefaceofitmarksadramatic shiftinthecontoursofIndonesianpoli
-tics. Since the fall of Soeharto’s New Orderin1998,Indonesiahasbeenstrug
-gling to achieve a transformation to democratic government,and theelec
-tionofawomanpresidentisperhapsa signthatwomenarebeginningtofinda placeinpubliclifeinIndonesia.’ Sobe
-gins the abstractfor the forthcoming proceedings volume of the2001 Indo
-nesia UpdateConference, held at The AustralianNationalUniversity(ANU) on21and22September.
TheIndonesiaUpdateisheldannu
-allybytheANU’sIndonesiaProjectand Department of Political and Social Change,both located in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS).The themeofthis year’sUp
-date(genderequityanddevelopment) wasdeterminedbeforetheriseofMega
-watiSukarnoputri tothepresidency,but itwasprescient.InthePoliticalUpdate session,KrishnaSenarguedthatMega
-wati’spoliticalsuccessisindeedsymp
-tom atic of a shift in Indo nesian democracy to a kind of populism, a ‘messy’, disorderly democracy. The
peaceful political transition has been accompanied byareboundineconomic confidence,accordingtoMariPangestu, whodeliveredtheEconomicsUpdate.
The former Minister for Women’s Empowerment, Khofifah Indar Para
-wansa(whochangedthedepartment’s name from ‘M inistry for Wom en’s Roles’)gaveakeynoteaddressinwhich shegroundedwomen’scontribution to thedevelopment ofIndonesiandemoc
-racyintheearly twentiethcenturyna
-tionalist movement.She outlined the changesinpolicyduringtheAbdurrah
-manWahidpresidency,inparticularthe push(implementingthestrategyofthe Beijing international conference on women) to‘mainstream’ gender—that
is, to ensureall government policy is gender sensitive. Sudarti Soerbakti of theCentralStatisticsAgencydiscussed thekindsofdatacollectionnecessaryto underpin mainstreaming. Saparinah Sadli investigated the connections be
-tween Indonesianfeminism and inter
-nationalfeminism.
Otherspeakersdealtwithsocialand economicchangesimpacting onwom
-en’slivesinthereformperiod.Mayling Oey-Gardinershowedthatwomenhave
evenlessrepresentationinformalpoliti
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calbodiesnowthanundertheNewOr
-der, and that significant obstacles to theirfullpoliticalparticipation remain. A group of activists from the NGO KaPaLPerempuanarguedthatregional autonomyhasthepotentialtothreaten goals achieved by women. However, theofficialwomen’sorganisations, seen asinstrumentsofgovernmentunderthe New Order, are transforming them
-selvesin many cases tobecome effec
-tive vehicles for achieving women’s aspirations. Women’sorganisationsaf
-filiated with the majorIslamicparties havenotbeensoeffectiveatmobilising atthelocallevel, arguedLiesMarcoes Natsir.TerenceHullandSriMoertining
-sihAdioetomoillustrated thetendency forofficialgovernmentprogramsbegun underthe NewOrder,suchasFamily Planning,toundergosignificant trans
-formation, including becoming more ’clientfocused’. Women’sNGOs have flourished in the reform period in all areasofIndonesia,andconfrontingvio
-lenceagainstwomenhasbeenaprinci
-palgoal,asIlmiIdrusandZohraAndi Basoshowed.Muchcontemporaryvio
-lenceisassociatedwithinter-ethniccon
-flict,butTomBoellstorffarguedthatthe contemporary categories gay and lesbi provide a model for truly nation al identity.
Lisa Cameron outlined the impact oftheeconomiccrisisonwomen’sla
-b o u r m a r k et p ar t ic i p ati o n, a n d GraemeHugoshowedthatthestream ofwomenworking overseashascon
-tinuedtogrow,despitetheattendant social problems. Economic changes are reflected in reduced household sizesandmorediverseeconomicroles for ho us eho ld members , as Gavin Jones demonstrated. Ria Gondowar
-sitosuggestedthatdevelopmentinter
-ventionsaremosteffectiveinmeeting thechallengesfacedbythepoorwhen their innovations are responsive to localneedsandconditions,including localisedgenderregimes.
The hopesfor changeaccompany
-ingthe demise ofthe New Orderare reflected in contemporary women’s cultural production; Barbara Hatley discussedcontemporarynovelsinthis c on tex t, and C ar la Bian poen pre
-sented anillustrated surveyofwom
-en’s contributions to this process in thevisualarts.
The proceedings volume will be published early next year in the an
-nualIndonesiaAssessmentseries.The editors are Kathryn Robinson (An
-thropology,RSPAS,ANU)andSharon Bess ell (Researc h Sc ho ol o f So cial Sciences,ANU).
