Gender

Women in the Ministry of Finance face significant obstacles to advancement

KERRY BROGAN talks with two women whose husbands 'disappeared'.

PETER HANCOCK finds that women in a rural Nike factory are considerably worse off than those who work in other factories.

A Spanish enquirer gets the catechism in an exclusive Jakarta suburb. MARGARET COFFEY was there too.

Why is it so hard to remember the evils of the past? ROB GOODFELLOW explores the pain, and the exhilaration, of memory.

There are dozens of stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things for human rights in Aceh. Here is a personal account of one such person.

What if there were not just two genders, but five? In Indonesia, there are

Between girl power and the mother image, young urban women struggle for identity

Poor kampung women double their income through their own micro-credit scheme

Manufacturing workers in Tangerang make a special effort to look good

Balinese dress says a lot about women’s roles

The government works with waria in South Sulawesi

Women’s movement activists and artists unite

No big gains for women workers

A Jakarta NGO is building alternatives to prostitution

Aceh’s women find themselves between an armed conflict and Islamic law

Three women authors take the Indonesian literary world by storm

The Islamic headscarf is now compulsory in many high schools

This man’s message is simple — four wives are better for business than one