Peran Organisasi Perempuan dalam Perjuangan Kemerdekaan dan Perjuangan Pembentukan Negara Bangsa di Indonesia

Abstract

In discussing the nation-state, Nira Yuval Davis’ work provides an overview of how gender relations influence and are influenced by national projects and how women are positioned within them. The role and struggle of women’s organizations before and at the beginning of Indonesia’s independence can be seen from this analysis. This paper attempts to revisit the situation of the women’s movement during Indonesia’s independence. Does nationalism as an ideology domesticate or liberate women? Did the agenda of women’s organizations during that period run parallel to the nationalist agenda, or did it merge with the priority agenda of achieving independence? This paper finds that gender influences and is influenced by Indonesia’s national and nationalist projects through a discussion of various women’s organizations that existed at that time. This includes efforts to suppress and silence progressive and critical women’s movements of the time, including Gerwani, to prevent them from disrupting the political power structures of the era.