Indonesian Feminist Journal

INDONESIAN FEMINIST JOURNAL

IFJ Vol.4 No.1, March 2016

Feminism gives hymn of equality the power and the incentive to emancipate humanity. Originally this fight embraces the cause of women’s liberation in full which still unachieved in recent years. Those experiences defend a specific understanding of philosophy as social critique. It owes its conceptual tools from the long struggle against racism and the history of slavery. In Indonesia, the tradition of phenomenology explores women’s experiences facing state violence as well as society’s unjust treatment against LGBT’s voices. The relationship between language and linguistic meaning as cultural marker has sharpened the way state and society rejected equality. Indonesia fails to think of history of transgendering, of Srikandi’s transgendering in Mahabharata epic. Or the ritual role of Banyuwangi transgendered males.

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IFJ Vol.3, No.1, August 2015

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This third issue of IFJ presents a broad array of the work of several feminist thinkers interested in the impact of cultural traditions of Indonesia on the lives of women. Using a large variety of sources, the first several articles cover the wider social context of such cultural traditions, while the second part zooms in on the operation of government and its electoral systems. We show that challenges to remaking of traditions revolve around sex, lies and politics. Following official statements, biographies and films, Saskia Wieringa confronts political silence investigating manipulation of traditional concepts of gender and sexuality in the 1965 Indonesian genocide during incorporation of Suharto ́s militarist regime. Immersing himself in a tale of a Hadrami migrant on a way from Yemen to Southeast Asia, Ismail Fajrie Alatas illustrates an example of a literary expression looking to curb femininity and masculinity reconfigurations sprouting from migration.

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IFJ Vol. 2 No. 1, August 2014

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In this second edition, IFJ presents a wide sampling of the work of several of Indonesia’s feminist thinkers on national governance. National governance is the sum of the informal and formal values, norms, procedures, and institutions, that help stakeholders to identify, understand, and address national problems. This issue will address the degree of order, stability and predictability of the reformation era under SBY presidency: how is Indonesia governed in the absence of gender perspectives? How does this system engage with our existential problems such as climate change, natural & human-made disasters, economic gaps & dispossessions? IFJ seeks to answer such questions entailing the Indonesia general election in April and presidential election in July 2014.

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IFJ Vol. 1 No. 1, August 2013

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The Indonesian Feminist Journal (IFJ) is the English edition of Jurnal Perempuan (JP), Indonesian's first feminist journal, which began publication in 1996. In this first edition, IFJ presents a wide sampling of the work of several of Indonesia's feminist thinkers. Debate on feminism and the feminist perspective in Indonesian society has flourished during the Reformation Era, interwined with broader issues of democracy and justice. Over the years of Reformation gender issues have been openly debated in the context of widening and deepening democracy in Indonesia. This edition features a cluster of writings on the topic of gender and corruption, which is a recent focus of feminist scholarship in Indonesia. IFJ brings out the flavor of many Indonesian poets and writers, many of them increased social awareness and self realization. These are feminist who claimed their place in society and political reality. We consider their expressions as a movement in Indonesian society.

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