https://www.scmp.com/rss/500891/feed Annisa R. Beta is a postdoctoral fellow with the department of communications and new media at the National University of Singapore. This article is an excerpt from a longer piece first published by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Indonesia’s young Muslim women are rarely thought of as political actors even though there is a large and increasing number of millennial female politicians. Instead, it is young, urban men who have often caught the public’s attention with their street politics and Islamist groups, eager for their beliefs to be reflected in policy. But the numbers tell a different story: of the 1,415 millennial legislative candidates in the country’s elections this April, some 816 – more than half – were... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3011026/how-political-influence-indonesias-young-muslim-women-went?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3011026/how-political-influence-indonesias-young-muslim-women-went?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 May 2019 04:00:06 +0000