Minister Of PPPA Appreciates NU Women's Efforts In Providing Women And Children Protection

Nu Women Festival (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (Minister of PPPA) Bintang Puspayoga appreciates the efforts made by NU Women in protecting women and children.

Present at the festival with the theme NU, Empowered and Berkarya, Bintang signed a collaboration between NU Women with a number of ministries including the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection. "Women's and child protection requires the involvement of many parties. We really appreciate NU Women's steps in protecting women and children," said Bintang at the opening of the NU Women Festival in Jakarta, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, October 16. Bintang hopes that the cooperation carried out is not only in the form of signing cooperation, but also through real actions for women's empowerment and also protection. women and children, is a very important issue. Moreover, the issue of women's empowerment, "he explained. Moreover, half of Indonesia's population is women and one third of the total population is children. However, efforts to protect and also equality, he continued, are still not encouraging.

Therefore, we need joint steps to increase efforts to protect women and children, as well as empower women.

Chairman of the NU Organizing Committee (OC) Women Fest Zannuba Ariffah Chafsoh or Yenny Wahid said that NU (NU Women) women are the space for encounters among many NU networks. Yanny explained that her party will pay attention to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic which has a social and psychological impact on women and domestic violence (KDRT). Then help provide a support system that can support when women and children experience bullying or experience domestic violence.

This is a very progressive step. This NU woman (NU Women) is actually the space for encounters among many NU networks. So far, it has been there, but we were met in a big movement," said Yenny Wahid.

Thousands of NU women who were physically present and who were virtually present participated in various series of events, including screening of travel videos, work of NU women, the symbolic launch of the NU Women Task Force represented by 9 NU women across genderation from 9 cities in Indonesia, Declaration of 21 Bu Nyai Representatives from various places in Indonesia Against All forms of Violence Against Women, and the Nusantara Redungagam. NU Women Festival is also filled with NU Women Talk Women NU & Future Leadership.

NU Women, according to Yenny Wahid, is a meeting room for NU women, both those who are members of the structure and those who are active in culture. NU Women also acts as a consolidator and aggregator for all NU networks that deal with female problems, so that there is a more dynamic and directed synergy in carrying out efforts to bring mass in society.

Yenny Wahid emphasized that NU Women is not an autonomous body (Banom), but is a hub, or joint secretariat, where stakeholders are all Banom NU currently available.

"NU Women or Women NU hopes that it will lead us to a better future for women, to better women's quality, so that later God willing, with deep confidence it will improve the quality of civilization," said PBNU chairman KH Yahya Cholil Staquf.