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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
During the 2019 Indonesia's general election, women candidates secured 20.7% of the 575 seat national legislature and 30& of the 136 seat Regional Representative Assembly. [48] Nevertheless, women in Indonesia make up almost half of the nation's population of 267,026,366 people and are still the minority in government. [49]
Women are even rarer in provincial and district legislatures, only 18% and 15% respectively, according to the General Election Commision. In 25 of Indonesia's 167 district parliaments, no women at ...
Indonesia is facing a 'pandemic' of sexual violence. A law designed to protect women and children is languishing because of opposition from powerful religious conservatives. An Indonesian girl's ...
Schapelle Leigh Corby (born 10 July 1977) is an Australian woman who was convicted of smuggling cannabis into Indonesia. She spent nine years imprisoned on the Indonesian island of Bali in Kerobokan Prison.
Besides Dutch women, many Javanese were also recruited from Indonesia as comfort women, including around 1000 East Timorese women and girls who also used as sexual slaves. [91] Most were adolescent girls aged 14–19 who had completed some education and were deceived through promises of higher education in Tokyo or Singapore.
The women don't have the power to arrest people, but can report them to authorities. Even before the forest patrols started, some women in the group were already trying their gentle diplomacy at home.
Sex trafficking victims in the country are from all ethnic groups in Indonesia and foreigners. Children, [1] migrants, [2] refugees, and people with low education or in poverty are vulnerable. [1] Indonesian citizens, primarily women and girls, have been sex trafficked into other countries in Asia [3] [1] and different continents. [4]