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Review "It provides a most valuable compilation of recent data and some current thinking on the positions and roles of women in present-day Indonesia" (Aseasuk News).

"Key issues and debates are addressed by more than 20 contributors -- Indonesian and Western, male and female, principally from academic fields although with non-government and some civil service input. The framework of analysis is the potential for increasing equity in the climate of political transition. Changing attitudes, labour issues, public life, and the impact of increased regional autonomy are prevalent themes. Reports from Indonesian activists are especially useful illustrations of recent developments" (Australian Journal of Political Science).

"This collection of articles is fairly comprehensive on issues of women's empowerment that could be pertinent to all women irrespective of nationality" (Awareness).

"While the articles focus on women, this volume is so packed with information on recent events and changes that it should be consulted by anyone desiring to keep abreast of contemporary currents in Indonesia" (Indonesia).

"Women in Indonesia gives an excellent coverage of gender issues and development in Indonesia.... The book deals with subjects rarely written about in the Soeharto era, for example, a discussion of gays and lesbians in Indonesian society. The publication of the book is timely, since it coincides with the election of Megawati Sukarnoputri as Indonesia's first female President" (Asian-Pacific Economic Literature).

"Megawati's shift to power was a time of hope .... The 20 articles highlight this hope mingled with an awareness of the complex and often contradictory social, economic and political conditions that mutually influence the spaces available for women. The collection, introduced by the editors' comprehensive overview of the issues, offers a wide variety of empirical analyses of closely inter-related themes" (Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies).

About the Publication 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
Women in Indonesia: Gender, Equity and Development
Preliminary pages, Tables, Figures, Contributors, Acknowledgements, Gloassary, Prologue
1. Introduction to the Issues, by Sharon Bessell Kathryn Robinson
2. The Mega Factor in Indonesian Politics: A New President or a New Kind of Presidency?, by Krishna Sen
3. The Downfall of President Abdurrahman Wahid: A Return to Authoritarianism?, by Edward Aspinall
4. The Year in Review: From Blind Man's Bluff to Mega Expectations, by Mari E Pangestu
5. Further Comments on the Economy, with a Gender Perspective, by Mohammad Sadli
6. Institution Building: An Effort to Improve Indonesian Women's Role and Status, by Khofifah Indar Parawansa
Commentary to Chapter 6. Institution Building: An Effort to Improve Indonesian Women's Role and Status, by Susan Blackburn
7. Feminism in Indonesia in an International Context, by Saparinah Sadli
8. Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities, National Belonging and the New Indonesia, by Tom Boellstorff
9. And the Winner Is ... Indonesian Women in Public Life, by Mayling Oey-Gardiner
10. Indonesian Women Artists: Transcending Compliance, by Carla Bianpoen
11. Literature, Mythology and Regime Change: Some Observations on Recent Indonesian Women's Writing, by Barbara Hatley
12. Women and the Labour Market during and after the Crisis, by Lisa Cameron
13. Women's International Labour Migration, by Graeme Hugo
14. Customary Institutions, Syariah Law and the Marginalisation of Indonesian Women, by Edriana Noerdin
15. Women's Grassroots Movements in Indonesia: A Case Study of the PKK and Islamic Women's Organisations, by Lies Marcoes
16. Women's Activism against Violence in South Sulawesi, by Nurul Ilmi Idrus Zohra A Baso
17. Gender Mainstreaming and Sex-disaggregated Data, by Soedarti Surbakti
18. The Changing Indonesian Household, by Gavin W Jones
19. Women, Family Planning and Decentralisation: New Variations on Old Themes, by Sri Moertiningsih Adioetomo Terence H Hull
21. Men, Women and Community Development in East Nusa Tenggara
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Index
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