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Gender and Politics

Solidarity and Participation: Women's Experiences in

Village Decision Making Exclusion

Juwita Hayyuning Prastiwi

Universitas Brawijaya

This research focuses on looking at actors and government mechanisms from a political and
gender perspective in Sidomulyo Village, Batu City. The focus on actors and mechanisms

elaborate into three objectives, First, to identify women's issues in Sidomulyo Village. Second,

identify political actors in Sidomulyo Village and see where women are placed. Third, analyze

accommodation of women's interests in decision-making practices in Sidomulyo Village. The

process of collecting, identifying and analyzing data was carried out using qualitative methods.

The field research was carried out over a period of two months with three main techniques
including in-depth interviews, Focus Group Discussions (FGD) and Document Studies. In total,

one FGD was conducted, 12 informants were interviewed and more than 20 government

documents were collected from the research location. The description of Sidomulyo Village is

that this village has peri-urban characteristics with a physical appearance that shifts from

agricultural to non-agricultural. From the aspect of tradition shows the dominance of

Javanese-Islamic culture in the form of activities such as mbiodo, sayan, recitation, tahlil,
diba'an, khataman, and slametan which are dominated by village women. As a result, this

research shows that Sidomulyo Village has uniqueness related to gender issues, which is

shown through the strong initiative and solidarity of women of the village in dealing with

social problems. However, the activeness of women at the grassroots level is unfortunately not

linear with their involvement in formal decision-making practices at village level. The dynamics
of the political and decision-making in Sidomulyo shows that the governance actors involved

are civil society organizations (CSOs) and the Village Government, but both contribute to an

asymmetrical relationship. The CSOs include not only local community groups that were

formed independently such as Karya Bunda Community, but also the Wahid Foundation

which brought the Desa Damai program. From the gender aspect, quantitatively women at
the government level are in the underrepresented category with descriptive representation

practices where policies and budgets are discussed in a gender-neutral. Overall this study is

related to the Gender, Politics and Public Policy as the sub-theme of International Conference

of Gender, Culture and Society (ICGCS).

Keywords: Women's Solidarity, Women's Participation, Village Women, Village

Politics

Short Biography:

Juwita Hayyuning Prastiwi is a lecturer at the department of political science and

member of Pusat Pengkajian Desa, FISIP Universitas Brawijaya. She has great interest in

gender and politics studies, as well as developing additional fields of interest in rural

politics studies. One of articles published in the international journal is titled “The

Substantive Representation of Women In The Local Parliament Seats Above 30%” (Opcion

Journal/Q3, 2019).

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