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In 2004 Election, Indonesian government launched a policy mandatory 30 percent female representatives in the legislature. This is an effort to accelerate an increase of women’s representativeness in the parliament. This research describes the imaging of women as politicians in Indonesian online news sites: detikcom, Kompas.com, and Tribunnews.com. Van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis was utilized as method of this research with feminist critical analysis as the  corresponding method. The result shows that the imaging of female politicians is in the domestic area. They are pictured as emotional and weak persons.

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The Tarbiyah (education) movement in Indonesia today is the best known and has the largest number of members amongst groups in the Dakwah (proselytizing) movements that mostly work in Indonesian campuses. Using the notion of Islamic feminism, this study aims to explore the numerous and varieties of women’s activities in this movement, especially in relation to the ways women see their rights and roles within their notion of piety. Female and male activists of the Tarbiyah movement in six state universities in East Java are used as data. Participant observations and in-depth interviews are used as techniques of data collection. Data collection was done from April 2015 to September 2016. One important finding indicates that the Tarbiyah members conceive that male and female are segregated in nature (biological construction), yet in fact they subscribe to concepts of women’s rights and equality while maintaining sexual segregation.

This research aimed to discover the meaning of the Majelis Taklim for upper-middle-class worshipers and how simulacra-simulation and hyperreality processes occur in the Salafi Majelis Taklim. This research was a qualitative descriptive study which explored data through participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The data was analysed by Miles and Huberman’s analysis through three related sub-processes, namely data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. Jean Baudrillard’s simulation-simulacra theory was used as the primary research framework. The results of data analysis revealed that (1) Majelis Taklim became a mean of hijrah for the members. The hijrah referred here is the conversion from non-Salafi to a Salafi movement. It is an ideology that Muslims must return to the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Apostles to become more religious, increase social piety, and stay away from restrictions (usury, photos, polytheistic acts, etc.). (2) With media’s support, Majelis Taklim became a simulacrum for the simulation process, which ultimately led to hyperreality, especially signs consumption practices (fashion, worship groups). (3) Hyperreality occurred in religious life.

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Sapardi Djoko Damono or Sapardi is known as one of the greatest poets in the world of Indonesian literature whose works are full of intensity in the quest of moral conduct and moral virtue.  Reading works of Sapardi parallels to read teachings of morality: of how one should live in the world with full moral responsibilities. One major issue Sapardi always tackles in his works is the notion of poetic justice. As a literary device, poetic justice always sees that the right will win in the batttle against the wrong, and eventually truth will prevail.  In the perspective of Martha Nussbaum: a philosopher who believes that literature signifies important position in establishing social justice, poetic justice may function essentially as moral conduct human beings long for. The works of Sapardi will be analyzed using close reading technique as one method in literary reading and analysis. Sapardi’s works, be it his poems, lyrical proses, or short stories propose human struggles in search for truth and social justice. Using poetic justice in scrunitizing the works of Sapardi one can easily understand that in the battle between the virtue versus the vice, the virtue will win and be rewarded while the vice will be defeated and punished, and often virtue will replace vice in ironic twist. Sapardi’s works also show that in the quest of truth, sacrifice is necessary action as through sacrifice transformation from bad to good will take place. Abstrak Sapardi Djoko Damono atau yang dikenal sebagai Sapardi adalah salah satu pujangga besar yang sangat produktif dalam dunia sastra Indonesia. Membaca karya Sapardi seperti membaca pencarian moral karena karyanya, baik puisi, prosa liris, maupun cerita pendek sarat dengan ajaran moral. Salah satu isu utama yang selalu muncul dalam karya Sapardi adalah keadilan puitis, yaitu dalam pertarungan antara kebaikan dan kejahatan pada akhirnya kebaikan dan kebenaran selalu muncul. Itulah yang dikatakan sebagai keadilan puitis (poetic justice) dalam perspektif Marta Nussbaum, seorang filsuf yang selalu menggunakan sastra sebagai sarana dalam membangun keadilan sosial. Dengan menggunakan pemikiran Nussbaum tentang pentingnya sastra sebagai pembentuk ajaran moral dan panduan moral dalam kehidupan seseorang, tulisan ini membedah karya Sapardi, baik yang berupa puisi, prosa liris, maupun cerita pendek. Terbukti bahwa karya Sapardi tidak pernah lepas dari pergulatan manusia dalam mencari kebenaran dan keadilan sosial. Dengan menggunakan metode pembacaan sastra yang dikenal sebagai teknik pembacaan mendalam (close reading technique) tulisan ini akan menggunakan perangkat sastra, yaitu poetic justice yang sering kali muncul melalui pembalikan posisi dari awal yang baik kalah dan menjadi pemenang pada akhirnya dan yang awalnya kejahatan menang tapi kalah pada akhirnya. Melalui karya-karyanya Sapardi mengingatkan kita sebagai pembaca bahwa kebenaran akan selalu menang pada akhirnya dan kebenaran membutuhkan pengorbanan karena melalui pengorbanan itulah transformasi dari yang buruk menjadi yang baik akan terjadi.

This article addressed identity reconstruction through an analysis of two of the most prominent fictional works by one of the Chinese Indonesian young writers, Audrey Yu Jia Hui. In encompassing the idea of identity rewriting, I addressed Hui’s second and third novels respectively, Mellow Yellow Drama (2014) and Mencari Sila Kelima (Searching for the Fifth Principle, 2015), through the post-structural concepts of Derrida’s deconstruction, and also in relation to cultural studies views on identity. The works were analyzed through close-reading technique. The novels were published during the Reformation (Reformasi) era, where politics had served to be a profound aspect that directed the cultural identity and social attitude of the society. In a range of aspects, from narrative structure to their deeper themes, Hui’s literary works were found to draw on a distinguishable set of strategies which enabled Hui to establish her own identity as someone who was liberated, culturally accepted and free to embrace local colors. This article also showed that Audrey Yu Jia Hui’s narratives have served as an acceptance of an individual’s multiple identities, which often depends on the problem at hand as well as the context of choices.