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“Indonesia must repeal ‘cruel’ new stoning and caning law”

Amnesty International uses the same human rights framework mentioned above to oppose a bylaw that endorses stoning to death for adultery in Aceh province in Indonesia. Here they say: "Stoning to death is particularly cruel and constitutes torture, which is absolutely forbidden under all...

“Indonesia: New law in Aceh makes adultery punishable by stoning”

This a call to action and informative post by the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network and the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women (SKSW) with regard to a set of regressive new laws introduced in Aceh, Indonesia on 14 September 2009. Indonesia's...

“Indonesia’s emerging Muslim feminism: women leaders on equality, inheritance and other gender issues”
This article covers the diversity of opinions among Javanese women concerning Islamic teaching that influence women’s lives such as covering the head, women’s share of inheritance, and polygyny.
“Islamic inheritance law in Indonesia: The influence of Hazairin's theory of bilateral inheritance"
Islamic inheritance law has long been a source of controversy in Indonesia. The controversy has generally been framed in terms of a supposed conflict between Islamic inheritance doctrines and the customary law or adat of the country's many ethnic communities. This article argues that recent...
“Joint marital property in Indonesian customary, Islamic, and national law"
“Marital property in California and Indonesia: Community property and harta bersama”
One of the more notable features of Indonesian Islamic law is its recognition of the concept of jointly owned marital property which bears a striking similarity to the community property system in California. In both systems the marital estate consists of property acquired during the marriage...
“Rural women’s land rights in Java, Indonesia: Strengthened by Family Law, but weakened by land registration”
In Java, Indonesia, only about one-third of land title certificates reflect ownership by women. This lack of registered land ownership can potentially harm women by depriving them of influence within the household and leaving them vulnerable in cases of divorce or a spouse’s death. This Article...
“Women, land, and labor: negotiating clientage and kinship in a Minangkabau peasant community”
One of the central dynamics shaping agrarian change, and one seldom highlighted, is the structure and ideology of kinship and clientage in peasant communities. This article examines the importance of kin ties in the maintenance of nonwage labor relationships in a wet-rice farming community in West...
“Women’s Activism Against Violence in South Sulawesi”

Prior to the reform era (1998) the issue of violence against women in Indonesia was largely neglected. Post-1998 the women’s movement in Indonesia began to focus on the issue of violence against women in both the public and the domestic sphere. This chapter examines the efforts of women...