Post-Tsunami Reconstruction in Indonesia

2 Political landscapes of gender mainstreaming

Intelligibility of gender in Aceh

 

Gender mainstreaming was formally adopted in Indonesia through a presidential instruction in 2000.¹ It was a result of a preparatory project at the Ministry for Women's Empowerment funded by the UNDP, UNFPA and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). UN agencies, the World Bank, bilateral development agencies and INGOs have played an important role in supporting gender mainstreaming at the central government and provincial government levels, but also in providing funds to the newly emerging women's organizations and women's study centres. Some scholars argue that the emergence of the word ‘jender’ or ‘gender’ in the Indonesian vocabulary dates back to ...