PATRIACRHY CULTURE AND INJUSTICE FOR WOMAN IN POLITICS FREDIK LAMBERTUS KOLLO (1*) AND SUNARSO (2*)
(1) Student of Civic Education Graduated School Program Yogyakarta State University. *Email: fredikkollo[at]yahoo.co.id
(2) Lecture at Civic Education Program Graduated School Program Yogyakarta State University. *Email: sunarso[at]uny.ac.id
Abstract
Injustice to the women often happened in every field of life. One of those injustices is in political fields. The purpose of this research is to know the influence of patriarchy culture to the injustice of the women in politics. The background of this research is just to see the way patriarchy culture puts woman on the second position after man. Almost all Indonesian people still hold tightly this patriarchy culture. The system of our politics is influenced by patriarchy culture and makes woman lack to get political access. Woman does not have chance to rule a strategic position in politics. The object of this research is in Non-Government Organization Legal Aid Institution Indonesian Women Association in Kupang(LSM LBH APIK). The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative methods. The result of this research shows that people’s perspective about woman still in the assumption that woman just should concern about house matters. There are some kinds of injustice for woman in politics. First is the lack of political education for woman. Second is the lack of supports from political party. Third, woman does not have chance as decision maker in strategic position. Fourth isthe paradigm in society which shows that the leader must be a man. There are some woman figures who become candidate as the head of government in the general election but they don’t have support from political parties, there’s only man who got the support from them. Women are lack to get supports in the process of legislative election so their political right can’t be struggled. Almost all women have ability to lead but they have not the chance thoroughly yet. Women in patriarchy culture can be divided into some categories: first is woman always rules the house jobs. Second one is women rule the country but they are still not maximum in their role. The society should fully support woman in politics participation.
Keywords: Patriarchy culture, women’s injustice, politics, general election.
