MDG 3 Indicators

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MDG 3 Indicators

• Shelagh Pepper
• Dir. Law and Governance
• MDI International
• GRM Group

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Introduction

• Contractor Representative for IALDF - Legal
  reform Indonesia
• REPSF- Economic policy research for ASEAN
• PMCF - Pacific governance facility -for media,
  government and civil society

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Real Life

• Shariah Courts women judges strongly
  represented
• Among other things we will try to collect data on
  
• Clients, particularly womens perceptions of the
  religious courts
• Why certain women do not use the services of the
  religious courts (for family breakdown and
  inheritence issues and the adverse legal and
  economic implications)

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MDG Goal Three Indicator

• Participation in national parliaments and local
  government bodies
• Percentage of seats held by women in national
  parliament
• Percentage of seats held by women in local
  bodies.

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Representation in local government.

• Governement target 30 introduced 2003
• 2004 elections
• DPR House of Representatives 11.9
• Party Political based elections
• DPD Deputies from Provinces 21
• 4 delegates from each province

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Context Pornography Bill

• Madeleine Bunting- Guardian Weekly. Conflict
  between secularism and political islam or
  between tradition and modernity mediated through
  womens dress and behaviour.
• Nursyahbani Katjasungakana M.P., Head of the
  Women's Legal Aid Foundation, IALDF Board Member
  There are 21 laws in Indonesia that compromise
  rights on the basis of gender, many in conflict
  with treaty obligations re womens rights