Ganjar Pranowo Reminds The Importance Of Gender Equality And Women's Empowerment

The Governor of Central Java, Ganjar Pranowo, after thegriya title event in Purbalingga, Central Java, Saturday. (Between/Wuryanti Puspitasari)

JAKARTA - The Governor of Central Java, Ganjar Pranowo, invited women in the local area to dare to progress and be empowered in order to support the gender equality program.

"Women must move forward, they must be more empowered," said Ganjar Pranowo after thegriya title event in Purbalingga, Central Java, Saturday.

The governor added that Kartini Day which is celebrated every April 21 reminds the importance of gender equality and women's empowerment programs.

"To realize the gender equality and women's empowerment program, women must be given space, how to do it with affirmative action," he said as reported by Antara.

Ganjar added that the Central Java Provincial Government continues to intensify various gender mainstreaming strategies and make the program the main focus of its government.

"Women must show their role in development, fill strategic seats in the government," he said.

Ganjar also considered that women have a leadership style and a distinctive decision-making style.

"Usually women have a calm and comprehensive style of leadership and decision-making style," he said.

Meanwhile, the Central Java Provincial Government has also continued to intensify education and socialization regarding gender equality programs to the entire community.

"In social construction, men and women have no difference. If women give birth and menstruation is genuine, but if you take care of children, cook, decorate floors and others, it's a shared role between men and women," he said.

Such education, said Ganjar, is needed so that the public understands that women have the same opportunities as men in filling development.

Meanwhile, in line with Ganjar Pranowo, Komnas Perempuan member Alimatul Qibtiyah also said about the need for policies that contain special treatment to achieve gender balance in women's leadership levels in the public sphere.

"There needs to be a new understanding in society and policies that contain special treatment or affirmative action to achieve gender balance," he said.