Despite numerous rules and regulations requiring political parties to promote gender equality, a recent study by the University of Indonesia has found that parties in the country have continued with discriminatory policies against women.
The study found that gender equality remained a non-issue for the country’s major political parties.
Reports from the study entitled “Political parties and half-hearted gender strategies” said that the three major political parties surveyed — the Democratic Party, the Golkar Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) — deliberately slighted the interests of women in politics.
Read more at Jakarta Post, published 27 December 2012.
Despite numerous rules and regulations requiring political parties to promote gender equality, a recent study by the University of Indonesia has found that parties in the country have continued with discriminatory policies against women.
The study found that gender equality remained a non-issue for the country’s major political parties.
Reports from the study entitled “Political parties and half-hearted gender strategies” said that the three major political parties surveyed — the Democratic Party, the Golkar Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) — deliberately slighted the interests of women in politics.
Read more at Jakarta Post, published 27 December 2012.