Agensi Perempuan Menghadapi Ketimpangan Gender di Berbagai Tingkat: Tiga Narasi Kalyanamitra

Abstract

This article consists of narratives of three members of Kalyanamitra in their strategies against sexual and class inequalities in the context of the New Order regime. These personal narratives illustrate individual strategies and subjectivities in the effort to combat the state’s patriarchal hegemony, organizationally. Ratna Saptari’s narrative shows her involvement with women workers groups, which became the background for the formation of Kalyanamitra; Myra Diarsi’s narrative illustrates the development of critical gender thinking within the existing power structures through gender training; while Ruth Indiah Rahayu’s story provides an overview of Kalyanamitra’s struggles in the Pro-Democracy social movement, through gender training and other social activities. These three narratives depict the interconnection between individual agency within a feminist organization and the existing authoritarian political context based on different social spaces and temporalities.