Minako Sakai

UNSW Sydney | UNSW · School of Humanities and Social Science

Digital economy and its benefit for rural development particularly women in Indonesia

This chapter presents the case studies of Pamela Sunardi Syahuri and Nurhayati Subakat: two middle-class Muslim mompreneurs in Indonesia. It examines the traits demonstrated by these prominent Muslim businesswomen, who are looked up to as new role models for mompreneurs. Following this examination, this chapter explores how Islamic study groups and...

This chapter focuses on unmarried Muslim career women in Indonesia and other Muslim-dominant countries. Some are turning to Muslim match-making or are lured into considering polygamy. It highlights that a professional career path for Muslim women based on education and work opportunities alone has not altered the necessity to become a wife and moth...

The concluding chapter emphasises that Muslim mompreneurs are disseminating a new message that a good Muslim woman as wife and mother requires more than just raising a harmonious family. Their activities of contributing to the community are an important part of their gender role. Following the wives of the Prophet Muhammad as their role models, wom...

What are the significant factors motivating Muslim women to become mompreneurs in Muslim-dominant countries? Sakai answers this question by analysing the subregional trend in Muslim-dominant regions of the Gulf countries, South Asia and Southeast Asia. This chapter examines commonly identified influences on Muslim women’s choices about work partici...

The emergence of middle-class Muslim women entrepreneurs known as mompreneurs is an intriguing social phenomenon. In this book, Sakai and Fauzia show that becoming a Muslim mompreneur is a considered response of middle-class Muslim women to modernity. This chapter provides theoretical discussions on middle-class entrepreneurialism and women, and ou...

How do Muslim women become mompreneurs? This chapter focuses on the perceptions of younger Muslim women in Indonesia to explore what motivates them to or hampers them from becoming mompreneurs. This chapter shows becoming good Muslim mompreneurs following their role model of Khadijah is a way to balance work and family, and to make social contribut...

This book analyzes women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries who are using Islamic values to develop and run small businesses. As a core case study, the authors are using Indonesia as it is the largest Muslim country in the world by population. The project examines supportive policies and economic programs in detail and considers their effects on the...

Common features between SRG and Islamic Sukuk

Building Back Better (BBB) is a key international concept as a guiding framework for disaster recovery. This chapter explores how different socio-cultural contexts have affected the trajectories of post-disaster recovery processes in two countries, Indonesia and Japan. It will show how economic embeddedness has affected recovery efforts and mobilis...

A special edition Gender Relations and Women's Agency Indonesia – India Comparison Guest edited by Kathryn Robinson and Zazie Bowen http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue43_contents.html

Islam is increasing its influence in contemporary Indonesia. What impact does this have on women’s economic activity? In Indonesia there is a strong expectation that women should work. Working outside of the home, however, frequently poses a challenge for Muslim women, especially wives. The growing influence of Islamist (women’s) groups in Indonesi...

Daftar Isi Kata Sambutan___vii Daftar Isi___xi Bagian 1 Pembangunan Berbasis Agama untuk Pemberdayaan Masyarakat___1 1 Menelusuri Semangat Ekonomi Syariah dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat di Indonesia___3 2 Kontribusi Islam Indonesia terhadap Peradaban Dunia: Perspektif Pembangunan Sosial-Ekonomi___21 3 Meneguhkan Keadilan Sosial Melalui Keuangan Inklus...

This book makes a new and significant contribution to our understanding of South Sumatran society and ethnography, and, more generally, to our understanding of Indonesian society and history. It demonstrates an admirable integration of historical and ethnographic materials. I feel this book provides one of the most cogent ethnohistorical studies of...

Over the last three decades, the influence of orthodox Islam in contemporary Indonesian society has become increasingly visible. The use of Muslim clothing, Islamic expressions and commodities has become prevalent in the everyday life of Muslims in Indonesia. Along with this change, some prominent localised forms of Islam are being gradually replac...

Islam is increasing its influence in contemporary Indonesia. What impact does this have on women's economic activity? In Indonesia there is a strong expectation that women should work. Working outside of the home, however, frequently poses a challenge for Muslim women, especially wives. The growing influence of Islamist (women's) groups in Indonesi...

Islamic finance has been growing significantly across the globe. In Southeast Asia, interest in Islamic finance and its growth is significant in Malaysia. Compared with Malaysia, in Indonesia, however, the largest Muslim population country where an Islamic resurgence has been widely taking place, the growth of Islamic banks remains slower and on a...

Indonesia has approximately 240 million people, and more than 85% of the population are Muslims. Whilst incidents of religious intolerance have frequently been reported in the mass media, political Islam in Indonesia, represented by Islamic political parties, seems to have failed to gain popular support. Against this conflicting standing of Islam a...

Although religious diversity is legally supported in Indonesia, incidents of attacks on religious minorities and anxiety towards the practice of religious pluralism have continued to plague the country. This paper will analyse factors limiting the practice of religious diversity in post-Suharto Indonesia with a focus on two types of important grass...

This chapter focuses on state and civil society relations for effective disaster management and post-disaster community recovery. ---- Bab ini berfokus pada hubungan negara dan masyarakat sipil untuk penanggulangan bencana yang efektif dan pemulihan masyarakat pascabencana.

Contrary to the secularisation processes in modernisation theory, religions and faith.based organisations (FBOs) are thriving in contemporary Indonesia. Strongly supported by community members, religious organisations have begun to extend their services beyond the traditional areas of education and health to operate in disaster relief and poverty a...

Civil society organisations, including those that are faith-based, are increasingly viewed as key stakeholders that can influence government policies, advocate on behalf of poor people and contribute to service delivery and development. This paper discusses interactions between religious groups and the state and how they influence society in the et...

This article focuses on emergent ways by which Islam has been propagated among Muslimyouth in Indonesia. It highlights Habiburrhahman El Shirazy, a popular Islamic novelist and his approaches to propagating Islam (dakwah or da'waj. Instead of analysing cultural representations in his literary works, I will present Habiburrahman as an emergent Islam...

This paper explores the impact of the rise of Islamism on women in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world. Islamism, seeking to implement Islamic jurisprudence including establishing an Islamic state, tends to curtail women's rights and participation in public life. The focus of this paper is Islamic economy, particu...

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