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Gender Equality In Indonesia: Problems and Strategies (a Comparative Study of Practices in Several Countries)

Individual Paper

Individual Paper

2:00 pm

08 July 2025

Forum 2 (Melbourne Connect)

Session 2: Gender Equality and Women's Political Representation

One Conference streams

Gender & Sexuality

Submission Description

This research examines the issue of Gender Equality in Indonesia with the fact that the issue of gender discrimination with the majority of women as victims of sexual harassment and violence and gender mainstreaming that has not been evenly distributed in various fields in Indonesia. By using normative juridical research methodology with legal, case, comparative law and conceptual approaches, this study concludes that various problems of gender equality in Indonesia still occur in various fields, so that improvements need to be made with the Strategy, First, improving and increasing good regulations on gender equality by comparing good practices of regulatory frameworks in several countries such as Norway which already has a special Law on Gender Protection, Second, collaboration and control over the implementation of gender protection in various fields such as the example of the Gender Equality Ombudsman in Norway, Third, building a culture of literacy towards gender equality, especially for marginalised communities such as indigenous peoples through the idea of paralegal programmes that look at practices in several countries.

Presenters

Presenters

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Dr. Rico Noor Master of Law - Palangka Raya University, Indonesia