UNAIR PSW Holds Workshop to
Show Existence
UNAIR NEWS – Universitas Airlangga Woman Study Center (PSW
UNAIR) held ‘National Workshop on Gendered-perspective Policy
Research Method to Support Women and Children Empowerment
Development’, March 17-18, 2016. Held in Kahuripan Hall, UNAIR
Management Office, lecturers and researchers of Women Study
Centers from many regions in Indonesia attended the workshop.
Prof. Dr. Emy Susanti Hendrarso, MA, the head of the
committee, said that the workshop was held in order to
encourage researchers in women study center to conduct
researches which can support government policy and be
published in international journals. As of now, according to
Emy’s record, there are about 68 women study centers spread
across the country.
“There’s a need from the government to use research results of
women study centers to be inputs for their policy. In the
future, we must present useful researches which aim for two
things, to support government’s policy and be able to be
published in international journals,” said the woman who is
also the Head of Indonesian Women/Gender and Children Study
Center Association(ASWGI).
According to her, the workshop supported by Ministry of Women
Empowerment and Child Protection was also useful to improve
the capacity of the researchers in women study center which
meet challenges to show their existence.
“From its institutional aspect, women study center has a
problem. Every university has its own policy regarding the
women study center,” added the woman who is a professor of
FISIP UNAIR on gender sociology. She said that the existence
of women study centers should be reinforced institutionally.
The alumnus of Flinders University also hoped that the
workshop can make PSW UNAIR, as the first women study center,
contribute more in reinforcing the existence of woman study
centers in many regions.
Stella Thei, one of the participants from Universitas Mataram
was pleased for attending the workshop. In her opinion, this
kind of workshop was important for the inconsistency showed by
women study center in many regions in Indonesia.
“We can get more knowledge with other colleagues from all
around Indonesia. The point is, research should not be an
inventory but should also provide solutions to women’s
problems,” she said. The workshop, for a researcher in a women
study center like her, was very helpful. (*)
Author : Yeano Andhika