Increasing Women Political Participation in Indonesia

1. Increasing Women Political Participation in Indonesia Women’s Empowerment and Gender Integration Workshop Bali, 19 February 2014

2. Women Political Representation in National Parliament

3. Women civil servants in 34 Ministries N = 503,554 Data from 2011

4. Evolution of TAF’s Election and Women Political Participation program

5. Indonesia Election in numbers • Over 180 million registered voters (an additional 3 million overseas voters) • Approximately 6 million Indonesians employed in administering, supervising and securing the elections • Seat contested: • 560 seats for National Parliament • 132 seats for Regional Representatives (DPD) • 2,112 seats for Provincial Parliaments • 16, 895 seats for Regents / Cities Parliaments • Approximately 200,000 candidates • 12 national parties and 3 local parties in Aceh

6. 2014 Elections • 9 April 2014: Legislative Elections (for national, provincial and regional parliaments) • 9 July 2014: Presidential Election • 20 September 2014: Second-round of Presidential Election (if necessary) • Ongoing: Regional Head elections (average of one election every 3-4 days in Indonesia)

7. Checklist gender mainstreaming in election program

8. Checklist gender mainstreaming in election program

9. Checklist gender mainstreaming in election program

10. 2009 and 2014 Election: Increased the Electability of Women Candidates

11. Spatial Distribution of Women’s Candidacy in 2009 Election Regions with women candidates < 29% Regions with women candidates ≥ 29% Local condition has strong impact on women’s candidacy. Amongst many factors are: access, participation, culture, non-functioning political parties, weak economic condition, weak civil society organizations and network.

12. Assessment 2009 Elections Results

13. Representation and parties numbers

14. Trainings for women candidates • Training Materials: • Women and Politics • Meaningful representation in politics • Election Systems • Targeting your votes • Campaign strategies

15. Post election program approaches

16. Increasing number of discriminatory local regulations

17. Australia Indonesia Electoral Support Program (AIESP) Electorate makes better-informed voting decisions Better independent verification of elections

18. 2013 Perception Survey • Objectives: • Strategies for voters education and voters information • Recommendations to CSO, EMBs (KPU) • Respondents: • 2.760respondents, 460 in each province (over-sampled 3 x 30 respondents) • Data collection: • September – October 2013 • Location: • AIESP areas: DKI Jakarta, Aceh, East Java, East Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, NTT

19. Survey Results 1

20. Survey Results 1 (cont.)

21. Survey Results 2

22. Building sustainable partnerships

23. Working tools Please contact natalia.warat@asiafoundation.org to see these tools. • AIESP M&E Plan • AIESP Gender Action Plan • AIESP Online Monitoring and Evaluation Platform: www.monevelectiontaf.com • Partner Report template: • Activity report • Quarterly report • Report template to DFAT • Monitoring & Evaluation for Norway Program

24. Urgency of New Agenda for Women in Politics • Expand the meaning and practices of political representation through increase in women candidacy and electability also take opportunity to push for equitable public policy agenda. • Draft common agenda to eliminate inequality in power relationship; recognize and reject gender blind attitude in political institutions. • Strengthen network and coalition amongst women leaders, decision makers with civil society organizations and activist, as well as women’s community at the grass-root level.

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