CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. TABLES viii
4. FIGURES x
5. CONTRIBUTORS xi
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiv
7. GLOSSARY xvi
8. PROLOGUE xxiii
9. 1. Introduction to the Issues 1
10. 2. The Mega Factor in Indonesian Politics: A New President or a New Kind of Presidency? 13
11. 3. The Downfall of President Abdurrahman Wahid: A Return to Authoritarianism? 28
12. 4. The Year in Review: From Blind Man’s Bluff to Mega Expectations 41
13. 5. Further Comments on the Economy, with a Gender Perspecti 61
14. 6. Institution Building: An Effort to Improve Indonesian Women’s Role and Status 68
15. COMMENTARY 78
16. 7. Feminism in Indonesia in an International Context 80
17. 8. Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities, National Belonging and the New Indonesia 92
18. 9. And the Winner Is … Indonesian Women in Public Life 100
19. 10. Indonesian Women Artists: Transcending Compliance 113
20. 11. Literature, Mythology and Regime Change: Some Observations on Recent Indonesian Women’s Writing 130
21. 12. Women and the Labour Market during and after the Crisis 144
22. 13. Women’s International Labour Migration 158
23. 14. Customary Institutions, Syariah Law and the Marginalisation of Indonesian Women 179
24. 15. Women’s Grassroots Movements in Indonesia: A Case Study of the PKK and Islamic Women’s Organisations 187
25. 16. Women’s Activism against Violence in South Sulawesi 198
26. 17. Gender Mainstreaming and Sex-disaggregated Data 209
27. 18. The Changing Indonesian Household 219
28. 19. Women, Family Planning and Decentralisation: New Variations on Old Themes 235
29. 20. Men, Women and Community Development in East Nusa Tenggara 250
30. REFERENCES 264
31. INDEX 275