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标题：Neo-Ibuism in Indonesian Politics: Election Campaigns of Wives of Regional Heads in West Sumatra in 2019
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作者：Muhammad Ichsan Kabullah ; M. Nurul Fajri
期刊名称：Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
印刷版ISSN：1868-1034
出版年度：2021
卷号：40
期号：1
DOI：10.1177/1868103421989069
语种：English
出版社：GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
摘要：This article focuses on electoral victories by wives of regional heads in West Sumatra province during Indonesia’s 2019 elections. We argue that these victories can be explained by the emergence of a phenomenon we label “neo-ibuism.” We draw on the concept of “state ibuism,” previously used to describe the gender ideology of the authoritarian Suharto regime, which emphasised women’s roles as mothers ( ibu ) and aimed to domesticate them politically. Neo-ibuism, by contrast, allows women to play an active role in the public sphere, including in elections, but in ways that still emphasise women’s roles within the family. The wives of regional government heads who won legislative victories in West Sumatra not only relied on their husbands’ political resources to achieve victories, they also used a range of political networks to reach out to voters, in ways that stressed both traditional gender roles and their own political agency.