Every week, 55-year-old Masriyah Amva lectures to about 1,200 male and female students at Kebon Jambu Al-Islamy Pesantren, an Islamic boarding school in Babakan village, Cirebon, West Java. Her lectures are not given on specific days, but the theme has always been consistent: gender equality and women's emancipation.

Masriyah hopes her lectures can help nurture the spirit of mutual appreciation within her school. She wants her students to be acc