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Gender, Conflict and Peace

How Does Women Peace and Security/Wps Agenda

Integrate in Indonesia Law and Policies?

Sri Wiyanti Eddyono

Universitas Gadjah Mada

After 20 years of 1325 UNSCR on Women Peace Security (WPS), the discussion of how far

women participate in peace and security agenda are emanated. The WPS has placed the

significant equal and meaningful participation of women in prevention and peace resolution

during and post conflict. The WPS also enhances women’s participation in addressing their
needs and interest in humanitarian response and in post-conflict reconstruction. Women's

equal and full participation are relevant in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of

peace and security. Indonesia has a commitment to be part of the global community, it is

important to reflect on how Indonesia, particularly in its laws and policy, integrate Women

Peace Security Agenda?

Indonesia has the Law No 7/2018 on Handling Social Conflict in which gender equality is

recognized as one of the principles. The Indonesia government also has established the

Presidential Regulation No. 18/2014 on the National Action Plan for the Protection and

Empowerment of Women and Children during Social Conflicts. Besides Indonesia has ratified

important human rights conventions (CEDAW, CRC, CIMW) and has some progressive anti
domestic violence law, revised Indonesia Citizen Law, Amendment of Marriage Law, Anti

Trafficking Law, The Law on the Protection of Migrants Worker. However, the WPS agenda is

lack both in law and policy level and its practices.

This paper will elaborate three critical gaps with regard to WPS agenda in Indonesia law and
policies: a) the approach of the law and policy toward women in conflict; b)the limited scope

in defining conflicts; c) the compartmental/disintegrated in gender dimensions. This paper will

discuss what Indonesia needs to do in integrating gender perspective and women’s

participation and empowerment in security sectors.

Keywords: Women Peace and Security, 1325 UNSC, peace building, women in

conflict, Indonesia

Short Biography:

Sri Wiyanti Eddyono, S.H, LLM, Ph.D is an assistant professor at Criminal Law

Department of Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She

obtained her PhD from Monash University Australia and her LLM from The University of
Hong Kong. Her specialist is in the area of human rights law, criminal law (transnational

and specific criminal law), victimology, women access to justice, violence against women,

gender equality law and policy reform in Indonesia and Asia contexts.

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