On The Same Page? Support for Gender Quotas among Indonesian Lawmakers

Prihatini, Ella S.

doi:10.5539/ass.v14n5p48

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“…But do all politicians share the same view about gender quotas? Prihatini (2018a) suggests that legislators share different perceptions on gender quotas, in which men are more negative and less supportive compared to female MPs. Thus, although female respondents are eager to use strategies to nominate more women running as candidate number one, the vast majority of male deputies disagree that such approach will equalize the playing field between men and women in electoral politics.…”

Section: Women In Indonesia's Parliament: Trends Over Timementioning

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Islam, Parties, and Women's Political Nomination in Indonesia

Prihatini

2019

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This article responds to earlier research on the role of Islam as a barrier to women's political nominations by assessing and comparing parties’ efforts to meet institutionally required gender quotas in Indonesia. With the provision of 30% candidate gender quotas implemented since the 2004 elections, how have parties responded? Do Islamist and pluralist parties differ systematically in this regard? More specifically, does religious ideology influence how parties go about meeting quotas, recruiting female candidates, and getting them elected? Or do all parties face the same challenges when it comes to getting women into parliament? Drawing on a unique dataset collected from 2004 to 2019 legislative elections and in-depth interviews with central party officers, faction leaders, and members of parliament, this article investigates these questions. The results indicate that Islamic ideology plays no obvious role in limiting female participation in legislative elections; Islamist and pluralist parties are equally good at achieving the percentage quotas of female nominees. Both groups are also similarly poor at putting female candidates first on the party lists. Indonesia's open-list proportional representation (PR) system is prohibitively expensive, and this hurts women candidates more than it does male candidates because women generally have less access to the capital necessary to purchase the top position on party lists.

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Section: Women In Indonesia's Parliament: Trends Over Timementioning

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Islam, Parties, and Women's Political Nomination in Indonesia

Prihatini

2019

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“…This substantial figure represents the country's potential for future development. Although political participation does not only relate to formal participation in the electoral process, studies on citizen's participation in politics have mainly focused on electoral participation (Fieldhouse, Tranmer, and Russell, 2007;McAllister, 2016;Prihatini, 2018aPrihatini, , 2018bSloam, 2014). Therefore, voting has often been regarded as the main path citizens use to engage with the political system.…”

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Young voters and political participation in Indonesia: Revisiting a marriage gap

Halimatusa’diyah

Prihatini

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives: This article responds to an understudied question on how does marital status make a difference in terms of voter turnout among young people in the Muslim world. Methods: The article draws on the 2010 Muslim Youth Survey and focus on 1127 respondents aged between 15 and 25 in Indonesia. Using binominal logistic regression analysis, it seeks to examine how marital status affects Indonesian young people's voting behaviour in three types of elections held in 2009: legislative, presidential, and regional. Results: The finding confirms that married young individuals are more likely to vote than those who are not married. However, the marriage gap only exists in the legislative and presidential elections as the impact of marital status diminishes in regional elections. Conclusion:This paper contributes to the literature by examining how the marriage gap in politics does not only occur in post-industrialized and developed countries. Also, regional election systematically prevents young voters to participate as the ballot sheets are only available in respective jurisdiction.

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“…Thus furthermore, from sequence numbers 4 to 7, for example, a woman must be placed between sequence numbers 4 to 6. Then, as the further emphasis on political parties to carry out affirmative action against the prospective legislative member candidates, the General Election Commission (KPU) until the Regional level are given the authority to notify the public (Prihatini 2018). Furthermore, regulation No.…”

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The Patterns and Influences of Women's Legislative in Simultaneously General Elections in Indonesia

Asmar

2021

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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Gender is one of the essential aspects of the democratic process, including in the legislative elections. In this regard, this study aims to see the implementation of recruitment patterns and the influences used by women, and the factors that win women in Indonesia's legislative elections. This research is qualitative research by carrying out the documentation at the General Election Commission Office and in-depth interviews with women legislators elected in the 2019 general elections. The results showed that the Indonesian government has implemented affirmative action well, indicated by a minimum quota of 30% for female legislators. Besides, affirmative action's success is also supported by recruiting legislative candidates by parties using several approaches, namely the oligarchic approach, the cadre selection approach, the structural approach, the transparency approach, and the dedicated approach. Furthermore, the prevalence and factors that support women legislators' success in the 2019 elections, which have increased compared to the 2014 elections, influence the sequence number and the incumbent candidates' influence. In the end, this affirmative action policy positively affects women who want to take part in politics.

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On The Same Page? Support for Gender Quotas among Indonesian Lawmakers

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

Islam, Parties, and Women's Political Nomination in Indonesia

Islam, Parties, and Women's Political Nomination in Indonesia

Young voters and political participation in Indonesia: Revisiting a marriage gap

The Patterns and Influences of Women's Legislative in Simultaneously General Elections in Indonesia

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