Kristi Poerwandari
Universitas Indonesia
elizabeth.kristi@ui.ac.id,
WA: +62-89654075122
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 The
National Medium Term
Development Plan 2015 – 2019, The
National Policy Direction and
Development Strategies: (a) the
mainstreaming of sustainable
development; (b) the mainstreaming of
good governance; © gender
mainstreaming in development
programs
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 Presidential
Instruction no 9, 2000
 Law no 17, 2007 (Long Term
National Development Plan of 2005
– 2025)
 Circular Letter on the National
Strategy 0f Acceleration of Gender
Mainstreaming (through gender
responsive planning and
budgeting) – coordination of
different ministries (2012)
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 Gender
equality and justice is one of the
aims of national development
(1) the improvement of quality of life and the
roles of women
(2) the improvement of protection of women
from violence including trafficking; and
(3) the strengthening of institutional capacity
of gender mainstreaming and of protection
of women from violence
 Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and
Child Protection
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 Too
much focus on education
 Only currently catching up for the
research, publication and innovation
parts
 Research schemes currently: too much
focus on technology (few schemes on
social-humanities)
 From civil society: lots of creativity and
and innovation potentials (within
the limitation of funds)
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PERFORMANCE
INDICATOR
Graduate employability waiting
time
Publication, patent, citation,
university ranking
ROLE/CONTRIBUTION
Agent of education
Agent of research and
development
Culture, knowledge, technology Agent of knowledge
transferred
and technology transfer
Industry and community
Innovation, employment, RD
Generated
Agent of economic
development
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 Masters
program: Universitas Indonesia
(Jakarta), Universitas Hasanuddin (Makasar,
South Sulawesi), Universitas Brawijaya
(Malang, East Java)
 More than hundred of Women’s/Gender
Studies Centers in different universities
throughout Indonesia
 Advanced/strong feminist discourse in civil
society vs. gender stereotyped/bias
discourse and fundamentalism
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 Debates
on the pros-cons to integrate
gender issues with Child Protection
issues
 Wide variety in perspectives,
conceptual understanding/framework
and capacity in doing research and in
practice
 Limited collaboration in research,
services to the community and
publication – which are (not yet)
oriented toward end-user
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 Women’s/Gender
studies is very small (and
perceived as separate entity) despite the
national guidelines on gender
mainstreaming in development
 The new ministry of research-technology
and higher education does not mention
women’s empowerment or gender
mainstreaming as an important aim in its
strategic planning 2015 – 2019
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The
re-vitalization of the
Indonesian Association of
Women’s, Gender and Child
Studies (ASWGI)
VISION: The realization of
society upholding gender
equality and justice and the
protection of children
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# To develop studies, publication,
advocacy and knowledge in gender
issues and child issues
# To strengthen institutional capacity
and quality of Women’s/Gender
Studies Centers and Programs
# To push for public policy which
ensure child protection, women’s
rights and the rights of the marginal
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Currently: to advocate for gender
sensitivity of the Ministry of
Research-Technology and Higher
Education – to ensure the
integration of gender dimension in
all research schemes/publication
 To strengthen the institutional
capacity of the gender studies
centers/programs (internal)
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 Complex
sexual and gender
construction issues
 ICT, hypertexts/hyper-reality, and
global capitalism – the difficulty to
differentiate authentic facts/
opinion/ fabricated facts
 The use of media for a wide
socialization of gender biased
paradigms/concepts/
practices
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 The
global spreading of
fundamentalism and hatred through
internet
 Media technology as the gate to
sexual exploitation/gender- based
violence
 Objective-quantitative indicator
of achievement measurement of
women’s/gender studies
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Semester I
•Gender studies and gender
analysis (3)
•Feminist theories (3)
•Research methodology for gender
studies (3)
•Religion and spirituality (3)
•Philosophy of science (2)
Semester II
•Gender in law, politics and
policy (2)
•Gender and livelihood (2)
•Body, sexuality and social
change (2)
•Academic writing (2)
•Elective courses from other
study programs
Semester III
• Gender mainstreaming and
gender budgeting (2)
•Field assignment/placement (3)
•Guided reading (2)
Semester IV
Continuation of sem III
Final assignment/thesis and
final exam (6)
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 Gender, Population
and
 Gender
in Urban
Health: Fertility,
Setting: City and its
mortality and family
development (3),
planning (3)
Society and urban
 Gender and
culture (3)
Environment: Analysis
 Gender and National
of environment system
Resilience: Drug and
(2), Basic principles of
organized crime,
environment studies (3), Police studies in
Environment audit (2)
Indonesia
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 To
cover academic and strategic
issues of gender construction and
sexuality, men’s issues in facing rapid
changes in the society; the need to
involve men in the struggle of gender
justice
 The need to infiltrate/integrate
gender issues into strategic global
concerns (ex. Human security, climate
change etc)
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Universitas
Indonesia:
counseling services for
students
Research centers on gender
and sexuality
Collaboration of different
organizations
Still face lots of challenges
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 More
publication in international
academic journals (international
indexed)
 Ensuring publication of every
research work (developing a new
culture of writing)
 In the process of revising thesis
format (to adjust to the form of
academic journal article)
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 Requirement
to students of masters
and doctoral programs to publish
(student as first author with supervisor
as corresponding author)
 Internationalization: preparing for
more courses provided in English
language for external public
 More international collaboration in
education, research, publication
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 The
need to infiltrate/integrate gender
issues into strategic global concerns
(ex. Human security, climate change,
etc)
 Inter/multi/transdisciplinary
approaches of gender studies of
different clusters (Science-Technology, Health Science, SocialHumanities)
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 Global
capitalism/global materialism:
Out of the box strategies to ‘adjust’ to
the general/objective-quantitative
indicator of achievement
measurement while maintaining and
mainstreaming the concerns of
women’s/gender studies
 More collaboration to strengthen
each other in ASEAN and globally
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Thank you
Kristi Poerwandari
Universitas Indonesia
elizabeth.kristi@ui.ac.id
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