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JAKARTA - The slow response from the government on a recommendation to revoke over 150 bylaws that are seen as discriminative against woman have made it possible that another 15 new bylaws that are also seen as such, may be enacted any time soon now. This worrisome news was released by the National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) earlier.
The commission has made the recommendations last year already, but there has been no response from the government yet, said Ninik Rahayu, a coordinator at the commission. The recommendation was reiterated later in 2009 for quick process in the 100-day program of the second term of Yudhoyono's presidency, but their actions were in vain.
Seven provinces and 16 regencies in Indonesia have discriminatory bylaws with rules on clothing, morality and religion, migrant workers and the criminalization of women. Some of them force Muslim women to wear a veil, while others disallow women going out without their spouse after nine in the evening.
As might be expected, the province of Aceh leads the ranks with the number of discriminatory bylaws, but the provinces of Banten, Gorontalo, Central Java, West Java, East Java and West Nusa Tenggara - all regions where Islam is the main religion - have enacted at least one discriminatory bylaw. The commission says that such bylaws violate the 1999 Human Rights Law and the 1984 law that ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw).
Therefore, we reiterate our recommendation to the President to prevent the birth of more discriminative bylaws that may violate women's constitutional rights as well as revoke the existing 154 discriminative policies. Ninik Rahayu, a coordinator of Komnas Perempuan
Both laws contain articles stipulating that limitation, excommunication, favoritism, harassment and neglect, direct or indirect, based on one's gender are forms of discrimination. Ninik said the country's Middle-Term Development Plan included synchronizing national laws and regional laws, but it seemed the government had failed to do so.
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