Women and Households in Indonesia

Koning, Juliette; Nolten, M.R.; Rodenburg, Janet; Saptari, Ratna

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“…Perhaps the explanation for these findings lies in how both unilineal ethnic groups construct gender relations in everyday life. The high status of men characterizes the patrilineal Batak ethnic group, 20 but none of the previous studies designated the matrilineal Minangkabau as a matriarchal society. 18,23,24 In fact, most of the Minangkabau are Muslims, where men dominate the public domain and leadership positions.…”

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“…The high status of men characterizes the patrilineal Batak ethnic group, 20 but none of the previous studies designated the matrilineal Minangkabau as a matriarchal society. 18,23,24 In fact, most of the Minangkabau are Muslims, where men dominate the public domain and leadership positions. 23,24 The Minangkabau also have a long-standing tradition of male outmigration, 11,17 where returning successful male migrants receive high social status.…”

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“…11,19 Kinship systems govern how gender is stratified within society. Among the patrilineal Batak, for whom inheritance of property and family name are patrilineal, 20 daughters retain no rights in their father's house once married. As Batak people are traditionally virilocal, married daughters have to enter their husband's clan and live with the husband's family, where their status as a daughter-inlaw is low.…”

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“…18,23 Matrilocality gives senior women the highest authority within the household, but males dominate leadership in the public domain and in religious positions. 23,24 The high status of males in the public sphere conforms with Islam: the dominant religion of the Minangkabau. 11 The "small family" norm of the National Family Planning Program causes many new Minangkabau families to live separately from their matrikin.…”

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“…11 The "small family" norm of the National Family Planning Program causes many new Minangkabau families to live separately from their matrikin. 18,24 Such neolocal households reduce the authority of senior women and increase the bargaining power of the father of the conjugal family. The tradition of outmigration (called merantau) is common among young Minangkabau males, giving them the means to prove their worth and to improve their position within their ethnic group.…”

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Ethnic Group Differences in Dietary Diversity of School-Aged Children in Indonesia: The Roles of Gender and Household SES

Kunto

Bras

2019

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Background: Despite the importance of dietary diversity for nutritional status, studies on issues surrounding ethnicity and dietary diversity in developing countries are limited. Objective: We analyzed cross-ethnic differences in dietary diversity and examined the roles of gender and household socioeconomic status (SES) in 3 Indonesian ethnic groups with different kinship systems: Javanese (bilateral), Batak (patrilineal), and Minangkabau (matrilineal). Methods: Data were from the Indonesian Family Life Survey 2000-2015 that consisted of 6478 school-aged children (7-12 years of age) born to 3878 mothers. The children's dietary diversity was measured using a Berry-Index. We used cluster-robust multivariate linear regression models. Results: Gendered dietary diversity occurred for ethnic groups with unilineal kinship but was less evident for ethnic with bilateral kinship. Batak and Minangkabau girls, rather than boys, had higher dietary diversity because boys from these 2 ethnic groups consumed low-status foods (eg, tubers and vegetables) less often. Household SES influenced ethnic-related dietary diversity differently, perhaps because of food culture. Batak children from lower SES households consumed fruits and dairy products less often, most likely to enable them to consume the pricier but culturally preferable animalsource foods. This lowered their dietary diversity. Conclusion: The overall results indicate gendered and household SES-related effects of ethnicity on dietary diversity. Nutrition interventions targeting boys should be on policy-makers' agendas. Boys should be advised to consume healthy low-status foods more often to improve their dietary diversity. The Batak case shows that children from lower SES backgrounds should depend less on the pricier foods to enable them varying their diet better.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender, power, and court‐annexed mediation in Indonesia

Syukur

Bagshaw

2020

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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Certification trainings for court‐annexed mediators have been conducted in Indonesia since 2003; however, the curriculum fails to include domestic and family violence and the impacts of gender and the abuse of power on women and children, which are crucial in a patriarchal country such as Indonesia. The authors contend that it is imperative to include these topics in the curriculum to raise mediators' awareness of the influence of patriarchy, on themselves and the disputants and on the process and outcomes for women and children. The authors assess the development and training of court annexed mediators in Indonesia and recommend changes to the current certification training curriculum, the development of national competency standards and a code of ethics and funding for research.

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Women Entrepreneurs, Islam and the Middle Class

Sakai

Fauzia

2022

Women Entrepreneurs and Business Empowerment in Muslim Countries

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Women and Households in Indonesia

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Ethnic Group Differences in Dietary Diversity of School-Aged Children in Indonesia: The Roles of Gender and Household SES

Ethnic Group Differences in Dietary Diversity of School-Aged Children in Indonesia: The Roles of Gender and Household SES

Gender, power, and court‐annexed mediation in Indonesia

Women Entrepreneurs, Islam and the Middle Class

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