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Gender and Education

Do We Still Need Women/Gender and Child Protection

Research Centre in Universities? Notes and Critiques

Khaerul Umam Noer

Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

This paper aims to answer one crucial question: do universities still need Women/Gender and

Child Protection Research Centre? The main argument is why currently various policies,

especially gender and child policies, often ignore research results. Whereas the numbers of

violence against women and children continues to increase every year, in line with the

increasing number of researches on violence itself. To answer this question, this paper is
divided into two parts. The first part will track the role of women’s research centre in Indonesia.

By focusing on the period from 1970 to 1998, this paper explains how women's research centre

have played a role in policy makers in Indonesia. The second part of the paper, starts from the

reform era to the present, aims to show how the disconnection and fragmentation in research

and policy in Indonesia, causes various research results to only end up in libraries or scientific
journals, but has no impact on policies. By focusing on research centre in eighteen universities,

through ethnography, this research maps out some of the obstacles to why research has not

driven substantial policy. There is a disconnect, that research centre has long abandoned their

role as producers of knowledge, that research is no longer used as a policy reference. On the

other hand, there is fragmentation in which various research centre do not collaborate,
resulting in almost identical or research that is not applicable to policy. Finally, this paper

provides a number of opportunities for gender research centre to play a more active role, using

the results of research across universities for policy at the national level

Keywords: Gender, research, higher education, violence, policy

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