The Losing Battle against Discrimination
Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Indonesia is finding it difficult to erase discrimination from its laws. Evidence of this, the Citizenship Bill, currently being formulated at the Ministry of Justice & Human Rights, still discriminates against women, perpetuating the inequality contained in the currently prevailing Citizenship Law No.62 of 1958.
Under the latter, the husband takes precedence. This principle was inherited from a long history of patriarchal dominance expressed thro
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