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Tendency for Gender-Biased Interpretations Still High

If nothing else, the Covid-19 pandemic has not managed to disrupt Nur Rofiah’s Qur’anic Recitation Session on Gender Justice in Islam. Through the da’wah forum she initiated in the Ramadan two years ago, the professor in Qur’anic studies and interpretation fights for gender justice for Muslim women by raising awareness that women’s humanity is equal to men’s. She first got acquainted with the gender justice issue when she was studying at the Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic Institute in Yogyakarta in the 90s when the gender issue was a hot topic and people were associating it with Islam. Her interest in the issue grew stronger as she immersed herself in the world of activism. Apart from being active as a lecturer and an activist, Nur Rofiah also helped launch the country’s first female Muslim clerics’ congress in 2017.

Interview Monday, May 10, 2021 Edition

Government Does Not Ban Independent Vaccines

Besides personally overseeing the distribution activities, Human Development and Culture Affairs Coordinating Minister Muhadjir Effendy is also involved in the preparation of the vaccination scheme. Muhadjir, who also holds the position of 3rd Deputy Chair of the Covid-19 Mitigation and National Economic Recovery Committee (KPCPEN), is one of the ministers who promoted independent or paid vaccination.

Interview Monday, January 11, 2021 Edition

Three Men at the Gates of Independence

IN their own way, each man helped deliver Indonesia to its independence. Liem Koen Hian and Yap Tjwan Bing joined a committee tasked with preparing for independence and the foundations of this country. Meanwhile, Djiauw Kie Song—a farmer in Rengasdengklok, West Java—hosted Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta when they were ‘kidnapped’ by young people one day before the Proclamation. But the future is not as the men imagined. After Indonesia’s independence, Liem and Yap fell victim to its own nation and Djiauw’s home in Rengasdengklok is no longer given certain privileges.

Cover Story Saturday, August 17, 2019 Edition

Former Lippo Group Boss surrendered

Former Lippo Group commissioner Eddy Sindoro surrendered to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) last Friday. Eddy has been on the run since being accused of bribing Edy Nasution, a clerk at the Central Jakarta District Court two years ago. KPK’s deputy chairman, Laode Muhammad Syarif said that Eddy turned himself in via the police attaché of the Indonesian embassy in Singapore. “The Singaporean authorities also assisted us,” Syarif revealed.

National Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Edition

Gunarti, Activist for Kendeng Mountains Community Network: We are colonised by our own kind

Gunarti, a farmer and activist in the Kendeng Mountains Community Network, seems hesitant to be compared with Kartini, even though she shares the same birthday on April 21, as the inspiring national hero. She is now well-known for her leadership in the green movement to oppose the proposed construction of Semen Indonesia's cement plant in Rembang, Central Java. She believes the plant will endanger existing ground water springs and impact the larger issue of food security there. "It's better to have a cement shortage rather than a shortage of food," Gunarti, 43, says adamantly.

Interview Tuesday, July 4, 2017 Edition

Offended by Ahok's Statement

THE reaction to this week's Tempo.co poll was almost as sharp as the November 4 demonstration. The issue was the same: Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) mentioned the Qur'anic verse Al-Maidah 51 on choosing a leader.There were 18,535 respondents who answered the question, "Are you offended by Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama's comment relating to the verse Al-Maidah 51? The result: 66.3 percent said "Yes, we're offended."

Ahok is perceived to have touched a subject that he should not have meddled with. The public does not see the difference between the statements 'Al-Maidah is deceiving the public' or 'Person/s are using Al-Maidah to deceive the public'. Both statements have aroused the anger of the people.

Indicator Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Edition

Ahok, Still Independent

WITH the collection of 1 million voters' ID cards, Basuki Tjahaja (Ahok) Purnama will be able to enter the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial race as an independent. Friends of Ahok, a volunteer organization that gathered the support, have collected copies of 1,024,632 ID cards from voters and counting.

If one parliament seat is equal to 41,000 votes, then the support for Ahok is equivalent to 25 seats. This is just three seats fewer than the number of seats held by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P)-the winning party at the Jakarta legislature. With such popularity, political parties are beginning to look to Ahok.

Indicator Tuesday, June 28, 2016 Edition

Heru Prasetyo Kasidi Deputy Minister for Gender Issues, WOmen's Empowerment and children protection ministry
Women must be politically aware

Women's participation in politics in Indonesia is still low. The number of female legislators in the House of Representatives (DPR) for the 2014-2019 term is only 97, or 17.32 percent of the total number of parliamentarian seats. This is what is making Indonesia's legislature and policymaking not pro-women and children.

Heru Prasetyo Kasidi, the deputy minister in charge of gender issues at the women's empowerment and child protection ministry, called for an increase of women in the legislature. He said the government was attempting to raise the participation of women in politics through a variety of training programs. "Ideally, women should have a more equal role to men in the public sector, including in politics and development," said Heru.

Outreach Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Edition

Stamping Out Independent Candidates

There have been many and varied efforts to make it difficult for independent candidates to stand in regional elections. This antidemocratic endeavor began with the House of Representatives' (DPR) government commission proposing an increase in the number of statements of support needed for nomination.

Subsequently, the General Elections Commission (KPU) came up with the idea to require a duty stamp (meterai) to be attached to each letter of support for independent candidates. This seemingly contrived requirement has been included in the draft revision to KPU Regulation No. 9/2015 on Nominations for Elections of Regional Heads. It is easy to imagine the inconvenience this will cause if it obliges the use of a duty stamp on individual statements of support or those collected at the subdistrict level.

Opinion Tuesday, April 26, 2016 Edition

Stop the Conspiracy to Block Independent Candidates

POLITICAL parties apparently are more preoccupied with undermining independent candidates running for regional offices than creating a healthy democratic election process. Their intention is obvious when the House of Representatives' (DPR) domestic affairs commission sought to change the minimum requirements for such candidates, which it already planned through a revision of Law No. 8/2015 on Regional Executives Elections.

The constitutional court has actually just amended the regulations on the criteria for independent candidates, stipulating that to be legitimate contenders, they must gather 6.5 to 10 percent of the ID cards of their permanent constituents who voted in the previous elections, not the current population. Candidates for the upcoming Jakarta gubernatorial election, for example, must have the endorsement of at least 525,000 residents, or 7.5 percent of the 7 million strong constituents.

Opinion Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Edition

Cementing Lies in North Kendeng

Cranes can be seen working on a tall, reinforced concrete building in Kadiwono village, Rembang, Central Java. They belong to Semen Indonesia, a state-owned company formerly called Semen Gresik. When completed, the factory will process millions of tons of limestone and generate approximately Rp3 trillion each year.Far from the din of engines and construction, at a roadside near the entrance to the 57-hectare factory area, a group of women are gathered around a makeshift blue tent. The tent is covered in posters bearing slogans opposing the establishment of the factory: 'Reject the Cement Factory', 'When Mining Crimes Spread, the President Must Take a Side'. "We are going to stay here until construction of the factory is called off," said Murwati, 39, a resident of Timbrangan village, Gunem subdistrict. Since June 16 last year, she and other residents of Rembang rejecting the factory, mostly women, have taken turns keeping watch. Residents in the North Kendeng Mountains are concerned that mining in the karst-dense area will destroy the environment and destroy the underground springs. "Nearly everyone here farms. How will they live if the groundwater is damaged?" said Joko Prianto, a resident of Tegaldowo village, Gunem subdistrict, and one of the leaders of the opposition movement. Together with the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), he filed a lawsuit against the mine with the Semarang State Administrative Court (PTUN). Last April, the panel of judges ruled against them.

Investigation Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Edition

Massive Independence Day Protests

In the nation's capital of Kuala Lumpur, over 100,000 demonstrators turned out peacefully at Merdeka Square to commemorate the nation's 52nd independence anniversary, starting from Saturday, August 29 through midnight the following Sunday. The rally was extraordinary, given the police declaring it illegal and banning the protestors' signature yellow T-shirts.

Asean & Beyond Tuesday, September 1, 2015 Edition

Unintended Consequences

For the last two weeks, the unintended consequences of two central banks' policy measures are starting to raise concern. One far away in the US, which remains an uneasy waiting game and one closer to home, which became effective this month.

Stronger than expected US employment numbers, surprised the market and strengthened the view that the Fed could bring forward its plan to raise US interest rates from the October consensus. As a result, the focus on containing inflation in the US, unintentionally, led to a massive shift of funds into US dollars, strengthening the US dollar and weakening other global currencies, including the rupiah. With major factory inputs and some food items still imported, a weaker currency puts pressure on domestic inflation and makes it more difficult for governments to stimulate its economy by lowering its interest rate. So inflation is contained in the US, but imported inflation, in varying degrees, raises concern in other countries.

Economy Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Edition

The Independence Proclamation and the Story of a German Typewriter

On August 16, 1945, the commander of Japan's military base in Batavia (now Jakarta), Admiral Tadashi Maeda, invited Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta to his residence, located on what is now Jalan Imam Bonjol No. 1, Central Jakarta. He urged the two nationalists to proclaim independence, and quickly.

Sukarno and Hatta drafted the text of the proclamation that evening, and by the following morning, it was ready to be typed. Maeda's typewriter, however, could only press Japanese kanji script.

Literature Tuesday, June 2, 2015 Edition

Suspended Over Two Clubs

THE Ministry of Youth and Sport suspended the All-Indonesia Football Association [PSSI] on April 17. The suspension came about after the PSSI continued to allow the Arema Cronus and Persebaya Surabaya clubs to play in the Indonesian Super League (LSI) competition, despite the murky status of their ownership and players. In fact, the Indonesian Professional Sports Body (BOPI), the Ministry of Youth and Sport organization tasked with supervising professional sports in Indonesia, had specifically not recommended these two clubs to compete. BOPI held that there were two teams named Arema and two teams named Persebaya. One instance of dual entity derives from a copyright suit; the other is an unsettled remnant from the days when Indonesia had two national football leagues, the Indonesian Premier League (LPI) and LSI.

Sports Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Edition

Gender

Jennifer Lindsay*

My first grandchild was born a few weeks ago. I just wrote that opening sentence without showing gender. I used the word 'grandchild', but in English it is impossible to go very far without revealing gender. We have to say 'he or she'.

Our gender is marked immediately upon birth. At the hospital, the first identifying feature of my grandchild was 'female'. Before any name: 'female of' was written on the band on her ankle, and then her mother's name.

Word Watch Tuesday, December 23, 2014 Edition

Fundraising and Gender Justice

Held for the first time since friends of Saparinah Sadli founded the award to seek women leaders in the spirit of its namesake a decade ago, the event was held on July 16-17 at the Cemara 6 Gallery and Museum in Central Jakarta, graciously made available by its owner Toeti Heraty. It attracted more than 50 visitors, many of whom were friends of the organizers who had managed to navigate the horrendous traffic jams that prevented many others from coming to the show in those two days.

Following the spirit of balance that the award advocates for gender justice, the show included female and male artists, including Astari Rasjid, Dolorosa Sinaga, Iriantine Karnaya, Diah Yulianti, Laksmi Shitaresmi and Wara Anindiyah. There were also a younger generation of artists whose works are being influenced by new findings and materials of the time in which we live; these included Aditiya Novali, Albert Yonathan Setyawan, Angki Purbandono, Agan Simatupang, Entang Wiharso and Willis Turner Henry. Also participating were Hermandari Kartowisastro, a late bloomer in photography, and Debra Yatim, better known as a journalist and activist. Other artists included the late Darmadji Satiman and Yayak Yatmaka.

Arts Tuesday, August 26, 2014 Edition

Sportama Versus the Grendes

Amid the jubilation over his daughter's victory at the Wimbledon girls' doubles championships, Olivier Grende faces trouble back home in Indonesia. He has been asked by Sportama, an athlete development and management foundation, to pay off loans amounting to Rp528 million. The deadline: the end of August.

The problem began when Tami Grende, Olivier's daughter, stopped participating in tournaments in 2012 due to his inability to pay for them. In early 2013, Sportama came into the picture, offering Tami a three-year contract that would provide for her to compete in various tournaments. In return, Sportama would have exclusive rights to organize her activities. Tami, whose mother is Balinese, would live in Jakarta and train at the Sportama tennis academy. The foundation would also pay for her education and transportation expenses. Olivier agreed, and Tami was back in business.

Sports Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Edition

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