Indonesian women have been the target of hundreds of gender-focused development programs but to what effect? Over recent decades Indonesia’s 120 million women have been the target of a veritable barrage of gender-focused development initiatives designed to help reach the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal of achieving ‘gender equity’ by 2015. Yet as this deadline looms, has the situation for women really improved? Are women any better equipped to gain access to work, healthcare, resources or government support?

For poor women in Indonesia, giving birth can be a life-threatening experience

Working-class women, especially domestic workers, have borne much of the burden of achieving Indonesia’s middle-income country status

As Indonesia’s rural poor are increasingly threatened by dispossession, is it time to adopt a more radical agenda for women and the environment?

The Indonesian government has come a long way when it comes to legislating for gender mainstreaming, but not enough has changed in terms of development practice

The New Order may have fallen, but women’s roles are still being manipulated for political purposes

A little help can go a long way when it comes to helping poor women to get ahead

Two non-profit organisations work together to help women headed households break out of the poverty cycle