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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]
Umi Sardjono (pen name Sintha Melati, [1] 24 December 1923 – 11 March 2011) was a prominent Indonesian activist who fought for the independence of the country and supported women's rights.
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
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 ...
Following Indonesian independence in 1945, the political milieu was fraught with competing interests between the military and the Partai Nasional Indonesia (National Indonesia Party, or PNI) represented by Sukarno, Islamic groups such as Nahdlatul Ulama (Council of Islamic Scholars, NU), PKI, and other women's organizations all vying for legitimacy within Indonesia's new parliamentary ...
Miranti is one of the growing number of Indonesian women who are taking self-defense classes as gender-based violence remains a challenge in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation. The ...
Tjideng was a Japanese-run internment camp for women and children during World War II, in the former Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).. The Japanese Empire began the invasion of the Dutch East Indies on 10 January 1942.
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 ...