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The Birdwoman's palate
Aruna is an epidemiologist dedicated to food and avian politics. One is heaven, the other earth. The two passions blend in unexpected ways when Aruna is asked to research a handful of isolated bird flu cases reported across Indonesia. While it's put a crimp in her aunt's West Java farm, and made her own confit de canard highly questionable, the investigation does provide an irresistible opportunity. It's the perfect excuse to get away from corrupt and corrosive Jakarta and explore the spices of the far-flung regions of the islands with her three friends: a celebrity chef, a globe-trotting \"foodist,\" and her coworker Farish. From Medan to Surabaya, Palembang to Pontianak, Aruna and her friends have their fill of local cuisine. With every delicious dish, she discovers there's so much more to food, politics, and friendship. Now, this liberating new perspective on her country--and on her life--will push her to pursue the things she's only dreamed of doing.
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Reading contemporary Indonesian muslim women writers
Most literary analysis of the canon of Indonesian literature overlooks its religious aspect. This book is the first to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in literary writing by four prominent Indonesian Muslim women writers: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy and Helvy Tiana Rosa. The narratives of the four writers are rich sources for revealing the construction of Indonesian Muslim women's identities. Within their feminist reading the writers understand that gender roles are negotiable rather than inherent. In representing women in a variety of discourses they draw multi-faceted women struggling against repression and domination, and resisting their status as powerless.
Dit is het eerste boek waarin de verhouding tussen geslacht en islamitische identiteit in de Indonesische literatuur wordt onderzocht. Diah Ariani Arimbi doet dit aan de hand van vier schrijfsters: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy en Helvy Tiana Rosa. Het verhaal van deze vier vrouwen onthult de ware identiteit van Indonesische moslima's. Vanuit hun feministisch standpunt laten deze schrijfsters zien dat verhoudingen tussen man en vrouw niet statisch zijn, maar veranderlijk en onderhandelbaar. Arimbi schetst een innemend beeld van deze veelzijdige vrouwen en hun strijd tegen onderdrukking en discriminatie. Zij blijken allesbehalve weerloze zielen te zijn.
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Indonesian Women in the Media from Da`wah (Islamic Missionary) Perspectives
This article is about women in the media in Indonesia in general and Muslim women in particular from Islamic dakwah perspectives. Generally, the media images of women have strengthened their position as inferior beings. The media in general have portrayed the images of women as the objects in the world dominated by men in their advertisements, the soap opera, as well as the coverages by some journalists. The negative and inferior status and position of women in the media should be improved based on Islamic da`wah perspectives. Since Allah has created men and women to live on this world planet in peaceful conditions as demanded by Him. This article explores Islamic da`wah perspectives for Muslim women and non-Muslim women in Indonesian media. For Muslim women, they are to be portrayed and presented in the media by referring to some verses of the Holy Quran and based on the status and position of Muslim women in the Muslim early historical period.
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Determinants of breast self-examination practice among women in Surabaya, Indonesia: an application of the health belief model
Background
Breast cancer has become one of the most common causes of mortality among Indonesian women. Many women in Indonesia present with late-stage breast cancer, negatively affecting prognosis and treatment outcomes. Better prognosis of breast cancer will be achieved if it is diagnosed in an earlier stage, thus efforts to detect breast cancer earlier are important. Breast Self-Examination (BSE) is considered as an important first step to encourage women to actively be responsible for their own health, especially for women in low-and middle-income countries with limited resources and access to other forms of preventive healthcare (e.g., screening programs). The present study aimed to predict BSE practice among women in Surabaya, Indonesia using the Health Belief Model (HBM).
Methods
This investigation was a cross-sectional survey which was distributed among 1967 women aged 20–60 years. The Indonesian version of Champion’s Health Belief Model Scale (I-CHBMS) was used to explain self-reported BSE practice. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association of HBM variables with BSE practice.
Results
44.4% of the respondents indicated they had performed BSE. Further, the results indicated that the HBM variables were significantly associated with BSE practice. Specifically, higher perceived benefits and self-efficacy, lower perceived barriers and less cues to action were unique correlates of BSE practice. The result also showed that perceived severity and susceptibility were not associated with BSE practice.
Conclusion
This study indicated that several HBM constructs significantly associated with BSE practice among Indonesian women, suggesting that BSE health education programs should emphasize the perceived benefits of BSE, focus on increasing women’s self-efficacy to address and overcome perceived barriers in performing BSE, and help them in identifying personally relevant cues to action.
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Issuing Justice
The ratification of the Sexual Violence Crime Bill in May 2022 reflects the collective efforts of diverse actors advocating for gender justice in Indonesia, including women ulama from the Congress of Indonesian Women Ulama (Kongres Ulama Perempuan Indonesia/KUPI). Central to this achievement is the KUPI’s pioneering 2017 fatwa condemning sexual violence, which empowered women ulama to mobilize support for the bill. This article explores how KUPI’s fatwa galvanized support for the Bill, helped to overcome resistance, and built lasting coalitions, thereby drawing attention to the overlooked role of women in issuing fatwas and in navigating and reshaping traditional religious frameworks to address gender-based violence. Using qualitative methods—including online observation, textual analysis, and interviews—I examine how women ulama challenge patriarchal interpretations of Islamic law and assert their authority in public religious discourse. I argue that, in social movements, fatwas can serve as internal innovations that offer shared moral guidance, unite actors, and act as mobilizing tools to drive policy change. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of female religious authority in Islamic jurisprudence and highlights shifting gender dynamics in contemporary Muslim societies, with a specific focus on Indonesia.
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Unmarried Women in Bugis Culture: A Phenomenological Study of an Indonesian Ethnic Group
The population of single women, though still a minority in Indonesian society, has seen a significant increase in the last decade. This demographic trend is often attributed to shifts in lifestyle and higher levels of women's education. This study analyzes the perspectives of unmarried women, focusing on the factors contributing to singlehood within the Bugis culture in Indonesia. Utilizing a qualitative phenomenological approach, this research involved seventeen single women aged thirty-five to fifty, which is beyond the average marriage age in Bugis culture. Informants were selected through snowball sampling. Data were collected through in-depth interviews to explore the narratives and views of these single women regarding their reasons for remaining unmarried. The findings reveal that these seventeen women have a desire to marry and lead an ideal family life. However, factors such as family economic conditions requiring them to be the main breadwinners, difficulties finding a suitable partner, caste and social status, traumatic experiences, and feelings of insufficient physical attractiveness were identified as significant barriers to achieving this desire. Singlehood among these Bugis women is not a lifestyle choice or part of an organized feminist revolution, but rather it is the result of the socio-economic and cultural conditions that impede their goals to marry.
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A spiritual journey of an Indonesian woman: The evidence through literature from a psychospiritual perspective
Recently, the study of women has been widely discussed worldwide in various perspectives. One of them is the study of women through a literary perspective. In this regard, this article aims to explore women who seek identity through a psychospiritual perspective using the medium of literature. This study combines psychology and the spiritual dimension as a transpersonal approach. Specifically, this article explores the spiritual journey of an Indonesian woman through fiction, which is depicted in a novel entitled Partikel by Dewi Lestari. This study applied a qualitative method to present the result in a descriptive-interpretative way. A documentative technique was used as an instrument to collect data. Meanwhile, the data analysis technique was conducted through data identification, classification, reduction, and explanation stages. The results of the study revealed the following findings. First, the character Zarah was not brave enough to choose her spiritual path in her childhood stage. Second, in her adolescence stage, Zarah started openly exposing her spiritual path by worshipping mushrooms. Third, Zarah experimented on her spiritual journey by eating the sacred mushroom to carry out a holy pilgrimage in her adulthood stage. This study has implications for psychospiritual studies in the context of women's literature and for the development of future literary studies.
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Born out of place
Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong–born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.
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A Multimodal Study of Indonesian Women's Activist Representation in Disaster Mitigation Campaigns in Online Media
This research explores the representation of Indonesian female activists in disaster mitigation campaigns on online media, with a focus on how multimodal strategies shape meanings related to women's roles. The aim is to analyze these representations and evaluate online media through a gender-sensitive disaster communication framework. The method employed is Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) as outlined by Kress and Van Leeuwen. This study examines three online media outlets Mongabay, Tempo, and Metro TV, using data from two female figures, Nur Hidayati and Masudah. The analysis emphasizes semiotic elements, including activation/passivation, naming/categorization, personalization, and visual framing. The findings illustrate that the representation of Indonesian female activists reflects a complex interaction among cultural identity, beliefs, and activism within the context of disaster mitigation. These women are involved not only in pressing environmental issues but also in advocating for social justice, showcasing activism's potential to challenge traditional gender roles. This study underscores the importance of integrating a gender-sensitive approach to disaster communication, which can enhance inclusivity and equality in disaster mitigation efforts and ultimately promote the agency and voice of Indonesian women. The implications of this research contribute to women's empowerment by providing a platform for them to express their unique experiences and perspectives in the realm of disaster mitigation.
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