THE ROLE OF WOMEN LEGISLATORS IN COMMUNICATION OF GENDER MAINSTREAM POLICIES Standpoint Theory Analysis in the Maternal and Child Welfare Draft Bill

Abstract

The number of women legislators in the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) continues to increase in every election as the result of the provision of 30% quota for women legislative candidate in Law 12 of 2003 regarding General Elections for Members of the DPR, DPD, and DPRD (legislative election bill) however, this is not in line with the mainstream gender policies produced by DPR RI. Based on credible data from 2004-2022, hundreds of bills have been ratifed in DPR, but only a few were gender mainstreaming. Several researches before found that the role of women in a patriarchal system was very weak, even just to express their opinions. Gender bias also found in the news about women’s role. Some of the researches also described how the women leadership and their way to fought for the rights of women and children in discrimination. Therefore, this research seeks the point of view of women legislators in communicating KIA Draft Bill as a gender mainstream policy, as well as their role to pass that bill through the Standpoint Theory which has three key concepts such as standpoint; situated knowledge; and division of labor. This research uses a qualitative approach combined with a case study method, by using in-depth interviews with the informants who ft on the criteria, also documentation study as the data collection technique. As a result, the standpoint of women legislators does not always have a gender perspective, several of them always have her own political interests in carrying her role in DPR RI.