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Gender, Conflict and Peace

Gender Mainstreaming Policy for Women’s Protection

and Empowerment in Social Conflict

Sartika Soesilowati

Universitas Airlangga

This study aims to examine an effort by the Indonesian government to gender mainstreaming

in social conflict. There is an urgency to mainstream gender in a social conflict in Indonesia

due to multiple social conflicts driven by various issues and motivations which have not been

resolved sustainably. The Indonesian government issued a policy known as Perlindungan dan

Pemberdayaan Perempuan dalam Konflik Sosial (Protection and Empowerment Women in
Social Conflict) (P3AKS). Several regulations and national actions have been declared to

support P3AKS. How and to what extent is the local government applying P3AKS? What are

the challenges to implementing these gender mainstreaming regulations? This study uses

qualitative and quantitative research methods. It also combines primary data and secondary

data. Primary respondents of this study are the officials related to P3AKS policies in three
districts, namely: Blitar, Sampang and Tuban. Despite the claims that the Indonesian

government has strengthened the protection and empowerment of women in conflict, in

reality, it is argued that there are still fundamental challenges to implementing the robust

policy of P3AKS. Besides a lack of funding, limitation of bureaucratic system, local government

officials have less capacity for gender mainstreaming to conduct P3AKS programs.

Keywords: Gender Mainstreaming, Women’s Protection and Empowerment,

Social Conflict.

Short Biography:

Sartika Soesilowati Dra, M.A, Ph.D is Associate Professor at Department of International

Relations, FISIP, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia. She finished her B.A degree

from Department of International Relations at FISIPOL, University of Gadjah Mada (UGM),

Yogyakarta. And finished her M.A and Doctoral degree at The Australian National

University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. Her research interest are Gender in Security and
Conflict Resolutions, International Peace and Security, Southeast Asia.

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