Gender Mainstreaming

This dataset contains 45 regulations and policies governing gender mainstreaming in Indonesia—a strategy to integrate a gender equality perspective into all stages of policy-making, programs, and development activities.

In terms of levels of government, most regulations are found at the regional level (26 out of 45, or 58%), followed by the executive/ministry level (11 regulations), the national level (7 regulations), and only 1 from a political party. This pattern indicates that gender mainstreaming in Indonesia is primarily implemented through technical policies at the ministry and local government levels, rather than through legislative frameworks at the statutory level.

By regulation type, the majority consist of Regional Regulations (Peraturan Daerah) (27 regulations) and Ministerial Regulations (Peraturan Menteri) (15 regulations). This reflects the nature of gender mainstreaming as a technical-administrative policy translated by each ministry and regional government into its respective programs, rather than being governed uniformly under a single legal umbrella. The highest legal framework serving as the primary reference is Law No. 7 of 1984 (Ratification of CEDAW / Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), which obligates the state to implement affirmative action policies for women.

Substantively, most ministerial regulations focus on institutional establishment (Gender Mainstreaming Working Groups/Pokja PUG, Focal Points, Technical Teams) and technical guidelines (gender analysis in budget plans/RKA-DPA, gender data compilation). Meanwhile, regional regulations mostly address the organizational structuring of regional government offices handling women’s empowerment.