Even with a 30% quota in place, Indonesian women face an uphill battle running for office
- Written by Sally White, Research fellow, Australian National University
In the 2019 general election, Indonesians voted more women into the national parliament than ever before.
After the first election of the post-authoritarian period in 1999, women’s representation was a paltry 8.8%, so the rise to 20.9% in 2019 seemed worth celebrating. Indeed, women activists had worked long and hard to reach this point.
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