Description
An overall view of women's activities in Indonesia today or any- thing at all on present-day Indonesian women, published by this Department has indeed been long overdue.
To compensate for this gap of information the Editors have, within the means available and for a start, compiled material which were mostly though not exclusively -drawn upon the Indonesian Country Report submitted to the World Conference in Copenhagen, July 1980, marking the United Nations Mid-Decade for Women.
Since the World Conference in Mexico City in 1975, International Women's Year, and even before that, the Government has been responsive to the growing concern about women's conditions and their status.
In line with the State policy and strengthened by public concern, the Government ultimately singled out women's affairs as one of six national subjects that shall have priority treatment. For this purpose an Associate Minister for the Role of Women has been added to the Third Development Cabinet (1978-1983). Her assignment is to coordinate women's activities in the Nation's overall development.
Specific projects for women are contained in the country's Third Five-Year Plan (1979-1984). These projects have been planned on priority needs of rural women which are basically similar in most developing countries. Consequently, the project items will fall into either one of the three main sectors upon which the World Plan of Action adopted in Mexico City is focussed: health, education, and employment opportunities.
