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arch 15, Online

Six major Islamic organizations have voiced objections to the gender fairness and equality bill, saying that some articles may harm Islamic values.

The objections were made during a consultation meeting between the organizations and the House.

The criticisms came from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the Indonesian Consultative Council for Muslim Women Organizations (BMO-IWI), Aisyiah, Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), the Islamic Community Party (PUI) and Muslimat NU.

Your comments:

In 70 percent of the households in Thailand, women are the bread winners. Thailand has more women CEOs than any other nation on the planet.

Women can become presidents in many countries and do fantastic work. Do not listen to religious
conservatives.
Didit
Jakarta

Do they not know that Khadija, the Prophet’s wife, was a successful businesswoman prior to marrying Muhammad? How can a quarter of an inheritance for a woman be better than half?
Jaytee
Jakarta

Western women need to learn from Indonesian women as to how to devote and submit themselves to their husband and family and how to cook and to follow what their husband tells them.

Western women always like to argue and think they are the boss. That’s the reason why the model of the family in the West doesn’t work.

Women always need to be aware that the man is the boss. Once this is being disrupted, the whole relationship is a mess, as in the West.
Right
Jakarta

Most Indonesian women can physically beat up their men, which the men don’t like and so they look for ways to suppress the women. If someone says it’s about religion, it means they are afraid to be beat up.
Faisal
Jakarta

Indonesian teachers are educated and I can’t imagine how a female teacher can feel “superior” knowing that her husband can easily beat her and, of course, divorce her, leaving her on the street.

But with a job and education, she can survive, unlike her sisters in the Arab, African and Afghan world, many of whom are deliberately kept illiterate so that they can’t run away. They are forced to swallow the bitterness of an unjust life.
Bona
Jakarta

While I appreciate their insight, I fail to see why the gender inequality preference of any religion should come into play in the making of laws.

Under the law, everyone is equal. No bill can possibly take into consideration all the dos and don’ts
of every religion that voices its principles. If one’s faith prohibits marriage of differing religions, then it is one’s own responsibility to guard against it.

If one’s faith has regulations on inheritance, one can always file a will with one’s lawyer. If one divorces one’s husband because of some superiority complex, then one better learn something about humility and the true meaning of marriage.

Don’t object to equality on basis of people’s inability to take responsibility for their own actions. Stop demanding that the state take responsibility to safeguard your personal religious mishaps.
Christine Pan
Jakarta

Men and women are physically and mentally different. They are supposed to play different roles.

Islam has guided them to serve their natural functions.

Hereby, women are respectfully treated as human beings. When we agree and follow this, we are leading to the true happiness.

When we feel annoyed with it, on the other hand, we may have a serious mental problem.
Khairul
Bandar lampung

Wives don’t just leave their husbands because they earn more, as one report cited in the article said. If women don’t have jobs, they do not have a chance to separate because there is no way they can provide for themselves without their husbands.

They choose to stay even if they are beaten. Is that better than giving them a chance to find work outside the house?
Lars Andersen
Copenhagen

There is no such thing as Islamic law in Indonesia because Indonesia is secular country.  
Abdul
Jakarta

What about other religions? Indonesia is not an Islamic country although the majority of our citizens are Muslim.

People, can you stop overanalyzing things from your own religious point of view please? It’s selfish.
Petra
Salatiga, Central Java