National Guidelines in Indonesia - President of the Republic of Indonesia

National Movement on the Harmonious Equal Partnership between Men and Women through a Gender Approach

The President of the Republic of Indonesia established this framework on Women’s Day in Indonesia, 22 December 1995, to advance the promotion of women in national development on the basis of an equal partnership with men. The Harmonious Equal Partnership is defined as "a dynamic framework in which men and women have equal rights, obligations, positions, roles and opportunities, based on mutual respect and planned with a view to promoting the role of women."

Instruction of the President of the Republic of Indonesia No. 9/2000 Concerning Gender Mainstreaming in the National Development

The instruction addresses the promotion of the position, role and qualities of women to achieve gender equality in the family, society, and the nation. It instructs all governmental bodies to implement gender mainstreaming for the application of gender perspective to the planning, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of national development policies and programs in accordance with their responsibilities, functions and authorities. In addition, these bodies are to earnestly stick to the Gender Mainstreaming Guideline in the National Development. The State Minister for the Empowerment of Women is to provide technical assistance to government agencies in the implementation of gender mainstreaming, and report the results to the President.

The Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines for the National Development covers all processes of planning, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of national development policies and programmes. It requires that a gender analysis be conducted, which includes:

1. efforts to identify the gap between men and women concerning benefits from development policies and programmes;
2. efforts to identify and understand why gender inequality and injustice exist; efforts to formulate measures that are needed to realize gender equality; and
3. efforts to determine gender indicators to measure the effectiveness of efforts to create gender equality.