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Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Learning from Women's Groups in Indonesia

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This paper focuses on the way in which Jakarta women's groups responded to the crisis that preceded and succeeded the end of Suharto's regime in Indonesia. In particular it looks at the way in which the gang rapes of women of Chinese descent focused and united the feminist response to the turmoil of 1998. Women's groups developed a number of strategies and actions during this period, but this paper focuses on the way in which women's groups accessed and used international instruments, especially Human Rights instruments to challenge their own government and to develop a specifically feminist position on violence against women. This activity is described as a form of creative ‘borrowing’. Seen in this context is can provide a new perspective on approaches to development that are genuinely indigenous and participatory.

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  • Marilyn Porter, 2001. "Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Learning from Women's Groups in Indonesia," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 6(2), pages 1-13, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:6:y:2001:i:2:p:1-13
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.590
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