Over the last two decades international development agencies have promoted worldwide womens quota as an affirmative action to improve womens abysmally low representation in politics. Indonesia has often been receptive to international policy efforts and the pursuit of womens equal political representation gained momentum after the downfall of Suhartos authoritarian government in the 1998. This work discusses the myriad of pathways to increasing women representation learned from women that had been elected to the National Parliament in Indonesia in the 1999 free democratic election. By...
Over the last two decades international development agencies have promoted worldwide womens quota as an affirmative action to improve womens a...