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During World War II, the Japanese Empire occupied Colonial Indonesia from March 1942 to the end of the war in 1945. [16] [1] The colonial government terminated and banned all women's organizations. [1] Fujinkai, meaning women's group, was established by the Japanese government as the only permissible women's organization. [17]
The Japanese also destroyed tons of records related to Indonesian comfort women as they were losing the war so the true number of Indonesian comfort women is unknown. [ 102 ] [ 103 ] Sukarno, the first president of Indonesia, collaborated with the Japanese and recruited Indonesian girls as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers.
The roles of women in Indonesia today are being affected by many factors, including increased modernization, globalization, improved education and advances in technology. . Many Indonesian women choose to reside in cities instead of staying in townships to perform agricultural work because of personal, professional, and family-related necessities, and economic requiremen
At the 1954 Gerwis conference, the members decided to change the organization's name to Gerakan Wanita Indonesia (Indonesian Women's Movement, Gerwani) to reflect its goal of becoming a broad-based rights movement focused on national independence, defending peace, and assisting women and children. Sardjono was elected to head the newly named ...
In a 1995 report on violence against women in Indonesia and East Timor, Amnesty International USA wrote: "Women are reluctant to pass on information to non-governmental organizations about rape and sexual abuse, let alone to report violations to the military or police authorities." [50]
Indonesian women's sport by year (11 C) I. Women in war in Indonesia (10 P) Indonesian female military personnel (3 P) Indonesian women by century (16 C) L.
While being a personnel Corps of the Indonesian Army, unlike other corps and specialities, it is an administrative formation that is responsible for the service of women in active duty service in the Army's combat, combat support and service support formations and since the 2021 formation of the Reserve Component, responsible for the training and specialization work of Indonesian Army lady ...
European Dutch women were overrepresented in documents on Dutch East Indies comfort women which didn't reflect the actual reality because the Dutch did not care about native Indonesian women being victimised by Japan, refusing to prosecute cases against them since Indonesia was not a UN member at the time. [46]