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Atnike Nova Sigiro: Amplifying women’s voices
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Voice for the voiceless: Atnike Nova Sigiro had a long history of activism before joining ‘Jurnal Perempuan’. (Jurnal Perempuan/-)
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tnike Nova Sigiro and her team at Jurnal Perempuan embrace Indonesian women’s voices and their continuous struggles for equality and empowerment.
When R.A. Kartini wrote the letters that would later be compiled into the book titled Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang (Out of Darkness Comes Light), she spoke of ideas that were unthinkable in the Indonesian society of her era: women’s emancipation.
Now, more than a century after Kartini’s passing, her legacy lives on through the numerous women’s movements and rights groups in the country. One of them is quarterly feminist publication Jurnal Perempuan, which has just published its historic 100th issue under the helm of Atnike Nova Sigiro.
Serving as the journal’s executive director since 2017, Atnike said that her interest in the women’s movement and feminism grew from her childhood experience.
“Born to a Batak family, I observed how customs tend to set women as a complement to traditions, whereas men are given a public role as decision-makers,” she recalled.
“During my teenage years, I also experienced harassment in public spaces, although at that time I could not explain what all of them meant,” Atnike recalled.
