Feminine Issues on Women Candidates: Studies at Local Level in Indonesia

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10.2991/978-2-38476-174-6_12How to use a DOI?

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feminine issue; woman candidate; local legislative

Abstract

This paper explained the uses of feminine issues (especially social issue) by woman candidates during the campaigns on the 2019 legislative general election in Indonesia for Batu Municipal People’s Regional Representative Council (DPRD; Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah). Through in-depth interviews and observations during the woman candidates’ campaigns, it was found that the woman candidates running for the regional legislative member preferred feminine issues, used campaign teams of women more, and were more comfortable when campaigned for the issue to woman groups. Based on the results, the use of feminine issues by the woman candidates at the local level were able to increase their electability during the legislative general election. However, the author argued that these feminine issue uses in this non-western country were due to the fact that the woman candidates had yet the confidence to compete against man candidates, and that the woman candidates still felt inferior to the man candidates. Thus these uses were actually a strategy to get them into the parliamentary without resolving the ongoing patriarchal culture problems existing in non-western countries. This strategy was adopted because of the presence of norms and values developing in the society that retain patriarchal cultures.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ratnaningsih Damayanti
AU  - Tri Hendra Wahyudi
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/01/08
TI  - Feminine Issues on Women Candidates: Studies at Local Level in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Democracy and Social Transformation (ICON-DEMOST 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 60
EP  - 68
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-174-6_12
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-174-6_12
ID  - Damayanti2024
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