Indonesia: Forum Criticizes KPU for Proposing ‘Zipper’ Quotas for Women Candidates

Under pressure from the women groups and activists, the Electoral Commission, or KPU, has proposed to issue its own regulation enabling a quota system to ensure that one in every three elected lawmakers — as opposed to candidates — be a woman, since hopes that the government might issue an emergency regulation have dimmed. Under the proposed regulation, for every three candidates elected from one party, at least one would have to be female. And if three male candidates from that party topped the poll, one would be have to give up his seat to the leading woman candidate.
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