Indonesia: Quota Ensures More Women Candidates in 2009 Polls
After 20 years as an activist, in which she campaigned to shape social and economic policy in Indonesia, Binny Buchori is setting her sights on a new career -- as a politician.It is a natural progression, she says, in a quest to improve the lives of this South-east Asian archipelago’s marginalized millions. It is also the result of some reflection: that more needs to be done ten years after Indonesia rid itself of the three-decade-long Suharto dictatorship and embraced democracy.
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