A Study of Women’s as House of Representatives in Central Java, Indonesia

Ari Subowo; Teuku Afrizal; Albert J. Rapha

doi:10.56225/ijassh.v1i2.44

Authors

Ari Subowo Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia
Teuku Afrizal Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia
Albert J. Rapha Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56225/ijassh.v1i2.44

Keywords:

affirmative action, women, politics, women’s empowerment

Abstract

The United Nation (UN) recommendation has been ratified by Indonesian government to produce the guidelines to spur women’s political participation through Ministerial Women Empowerment and Child Protection Regulation 07/2013 on Increasing Women’s Political Participation in Legislative. Nevertheless, the emergence of this affirmative policy has not been able to attain the target of least 30% representation in the legislative institution, including the House of Representatives of Central Java 2019-2024. Further, this research emphasizes about the factual condition of women’s political representation and why the women’s political representation enhancement policy still yet spur the women’s representation rate in the House of Representatives of Central Java 2019-2024. By using descriptive qualitative method and system theory basis, this study tries to scrutinize more deeply about the reality in the field based on four main factors: policy cognition, socio-culture, human resources, and political factor. According to the result, this research finds various hurdles on the policy implementation, including the lingering of patriarchal culture, the lack of women’s capability as policy makers, and various political factors.

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