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Women's Political Participation in Indonesia : Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali

Rhoads, Elizabeth LU (2012) In Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 31(2). p.35-56
Abstract
This article contends that cultural, political and historical factors create a local political environment where de facto discrimination against women is the norm. Without thoroughly addressing and altering the underlying issues causing discrimination against women in politics, a weak quota system will not immediately lead to increased women's participation in Bali. This paper argues that the leading factors contributing to low levels of Balinese women's participation include widespread money politics, the revitalisation of customary institutions and local identities through decentralisation, and the collective memory of the violent dissolution of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) in 1965–66.
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Bali, Indonesia, gender, political participation, law, politics, women's studies
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Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
volume
31
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2
pages
35 - 56
publisher
GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
ISSN
1868-1034
DOI
10.1177/186810341203100202
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English
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  title        = {{Women's Political Participation in Indonesia : Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali}},
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