Culture, Islamic feminism, and the quest for legal reform in Indonesia

یادداشت: عنوان فارسی: فرهنگ، فمینیسم اسلامی و تلاش برای اصلاحات قانونی در اندونزی.
This paper examines the interplay of Islam, history, and feminism and views it in the legal context of Indonesia. I use social movement theory to examine how women’s movements here have organized and mobilized resources to achieve certain goals in this specific socio-political context. This paper sees the Marriage Act 1974 and the Counter-Legal Draft of the Compilation of Islamic Law (CLD) as two relevant examples of how women’s movements have struggled to achieve a particular goal in accordance with their ideals. These represent two different contexts: while the Marriage Act was enacted during Suharto’s authoritarian New Order regime, the Counter-Legal Draft was proposed during the Reform Era following the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998.
Keywords: Counter legal draft; marriage law 1974; polygamy; women’s movement; compilation; legal reform