“…Studies conducted in Asian contexts like Thailand (Sriwimon & Jimarkon, 2017) and Indonesia (Santoso, 2018) also highlight trivialization of women by means of the media. The first female prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was discursively constructed as a novice politician, the youngest sister of the former prime minister Thaksin, an inexperienced and incompetent politician in the print media (Sriwimon & Jimarkon, 2017). Whereas, in Indonesian politics, women are still perceived as less competent and subordinate to their male counterpart because of their traditional role in family context (Santoso, 2018).…”