Memahami, Menyuarakan, dan Mengatasi Permasalahan Perempuan dalam Ruang Terbatas pada Masa Orde Baru Sebelum Reformasi 1998

Abstract

This article explains the experience of voicing women’s injustices in Indonesia during the New Order before the 1998 Reformation. It begins with the chronology of the author’s encounter on women’s issues and feminist perspective. These efforts were challenged by the State during the New Order. The State challenged those in several forms, such as interrogation, terror, and threats. This article analyzes women’s struggles using the concept of patriarchy from Walby and the politics of differentiation from Young. It also explains why the failure to fulfill one form of injustice for women, namely reproductive rights in the family planning program in Indonesia, became a point of contention between women’s issue activists and the State. Even though they faced challenges from the State, as long as the sense of injustice is still real, efforts to overcome the problem will continue to be carried out by women activists