The Diffable Womens Movement in the 2019 Legislative Election in Indonesia
Ika Arinia Indriyany, M. Dian Hikmawan, Yeby Maasan Mayrudin
Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa
Abstract
The absence of representatives of the DPR RI (Representative Council Republic of Indonesia) from diffable people and the discourse of their political struggle to obtain previlage rights as citizens became an interesting study. This research focuses on the issue of the emergence of a movement that was built for the struggle for DPR RI seats in the 2019 legislative elections by woman legislative candidates from the diffable. She does not only carry out womens struggles in carrying out his rights as citizens, furthermore his movement tries to bring the issue of diffable women to gain seats in parliament. The movement that is trying to be constructed is an issue of fulfilling the right to the diffable people through legislating in parliament. This research uses qualitative methods and phenomenology approaches to unravel the movements that try to be constructed by diffable candidates in managing issues that will be fought for in parliament as the substance of the political struggle. The findings in this research also emphasize the presence of political struggle movements of diffable candidates through the issue of representation of disabled people, especially diffable women through transformative politics, at least the issue of representation of disabled people to sit in parliamentary seats becomes a political agenda in the 2019 legislative elections.
Keywords: Woman, Diffable, Representation, Election, Social Movement
Topic: Local Politics and Decentralization