Yumasdaleni --

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Researcher at National Research and Innovation Agency

Research Driven Dialogs (RDDs) are a method for collective sense-making and collaborative reflection on research findings by a range of stakeholders hoping to better understand and address a complex problem. Research findings are opened up through a process of dialog; implications for practice and action are co-designed by participants in ways that...

This article seeks to explain why so few women make the journey from social activism and community work to standing for election. Comparative research in Indonesia and Sri Lanka reveals four operations critical to mending the broken pathway to politics for non-elite women. Transference entails the recognition and valuing of women’s preexisting skil...

The path from student politics to electoral politics is a well-worn one across Asia. Literature examining this pathway overwhelmingly does so from the perspective of men, failing to adequately acknowledge women's relative inability to make the transition from campuses to legislatures in the same way. This article focuses on Indonesian women's exper...

Elections are expensive, disadvantaging women with limited access to financial resources. Strategies to address this problem have focused on increasing women’s campaign funds or lowering costs such as nomination fees. While important, such strategies will not overcome the disadvantages women face in countries where “transactional politics” is rife,...

The sect of group and movement of radicalism, intolerance and violent extremism have emerged in the last decades in various parts of Indonesia as concern in the issue of religious moderation. The religious moderation discourse initiated by the Ministry of Religion in 2019 as mainstream target in anticipating the group who acts of violence in the na...

Artikel ini membincangkan tentang penyertaan wanita dalam pilihan raya di Indonesia setelah pentadbiran Presiden Soeharto. Penyertaan wanita dalam pilihan raya melalui isu kuota bermula pada tahun 2004. Pengumpulan data dengan cara kualitatif yang disokong data kuantitatif. Dokumen paper ini menjelaskan dua faktor dinamik dalam penyertaan wanita pa...

Indonesia welcomes recommendations of the sustainable development agenda on increasing the number of women in parliament and has been applying the quota system since 2004. The expected a critical figure of at least 30 %, the election results show in. Structural and cultural factors on the role of women as the cause of the low numbers, it has been i...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to enhance understandings of personhood and self-becoming through an affective reading of field notes and interview transcripts in cross-cultural research teams. Design/methodology/approach – A research team in Medan, Indonesia, captured the affective and emotive aspects of a research sc...

The Badan Keswadayaan Masyarakat (BKM—Board for Community Self-reliance) are organisations established by the state as implementing agents of a community-driven development programme in Medan, Indonesia. Members are elected from the local population, but they continue to be supported by, and associated with the state. They are therefore ‘straddler’...