Project activities
Activities - Participating organisations
As of the end of the year, all 24 local partners participating in the Gender Development Project in Indonesia had initiated at least preliminary project activities according to their proposals. Some, such as LBK-UB and PKBI Yogya in Java and YPKM in Papua, already started moving beyond the early phases.
Activities – The Java Coalition
In Java, coalition activities centred around International Human Rights Day and the Campaign, “Women and Girls are Free from HIV/AIDS”. Activities at national level included a rally, a press conference, and a public dialogue with speakers from Rahima, PKBI, KPI, and other groups.
Local level activities were organized in coherence with the national level campaign. Thus, some partner activities focused on specific aspects of the national campaign, such as prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. Actions included a march, a day of prayer and contemplation, a writing competition on HIV/AIDS, and an art show.
Activities – The Papua Coalition
In Papua, coalition activities were designed primarily to intervene at the provincial level. Coalition members drafted a local ordinance aimed at the Papua Provincial Health Service Administration. This work was accomplished in collaboration with an already existing civil society–based health working group. The draft ordinance was submitted to members of the local legislative body and the Papua AIDS Commission.
Mirroring the work in Java, the Papua coalition took up a campaign that linked the current Papuan political context to women’s rights and HIV. The campaign included a protest for women’s rights in which 250 people from 27 community groups and associations participated. It also included a follow up focus group discussion with representatives of the 27 groups on International Human Rights Day. A series of communications activities were also organized in connection with the campaign, including radio announcements and press articles.
Translation banner:
Women and girls free of HIV and AIDS; Let us together take responsibility for defending their rights.
