Your Body Is (Not) Yours: Digital Activism On Anti-Sexual Violence Bill In Indonesia

The long and winding road to pass the bill on anti-sexual violence in Indonesia put the question on the success of a more-than century old feminist movement in Indonesia, a developing country with strong religious and cultural values. Fall short behind the highly expected equal treatment on public arena, Indonesian women struggle was actually still on the basic level of mastery over their own body. The bill was proposed by the National Commission on Violence Against Women to the government in 2012 and has been deliberated by the lawmakers since 2016. The opposition, mainly from right-wing fundamentalist groups, were strong, causing the
House of Representatives decided to delay the passage of the bill. This research aims to map the anti-sexual violence discourse related to the bill and the actors. Data will be drawn from top five major online media using Topic Mapper software and analyzed with Discourse Network Analyzer (DNA) software. Theoretically, this research will contribute to the development of Discourse Coalition Framework theory by Marteen Hajer and feminist theory by placing them in the context of digital activism. Practically, this research is expected to
contribute to the communication strategy for the feminist digital activism on online media.