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Elizabeth Rhoads

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Women's Political Participation in Indonesia : Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali

Author

  • Elizabeth Rhoads

Summary, in English

This article contends that cultural, political and historical factors create a local political environment where de facto discrimination against women is the norm. Without thoroughly addressing and altering the underlying issues causing discrimination against women in politics, a weak quota system will not immediately lead to increased women's participation in Bali. This paper argues that the leading factors contributing to low levels of Balinese women's participation include widespread money politics, the revitalisation of customary institutions and local identities through decentralisation, and the collective memory of the violent dissolution of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) in 1965–66.

Publishing year

2012-06-01

Language

English

Pages

35-56

Publication/Series

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

Volume

31

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

GIGA Institute of Asian Studies

Topic

  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
  • Social Anthropology
  • Cultural Studies

Keywords

  • Bali
  • Indonesia
  • gender
  • political participation
  • law
  • politics
  • women's studies

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1868-1034