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Concluding comments of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Indonesia<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Thirty-ninth session. A few relevant sections are reproduced here. editor

9. The Committee calls upon the State party to take immediate steps to

ensure that the provisions, principles and concepts of the Convention are fully

applicable and utilized in domestic law. It further encourages the State party to

incorporate a definition of discrimination into its Constitution or national

legislation that conforms with article 1 of the Convention. It recommends that

the State party ensure that effective mechanisms and remedies are available to

women whose human rights, as provided for in the Convention, have been violated

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 The Committee calls on the State party to ensure that the Convention

and related domestic legislation are made an integral part of legal education

and the training of judicial officers, including judges, lawyers and prosecutors,

and are well known to lawmakers in order to firmly establish a legal culture

supportive of women’s equality and non-discrimination in the country.

13. The Committee urges the State party to review, monitor and evaluate the

implementation of local and regional laws to ensure that they fully comply with

national human rights laws and the obligations of the State party under the

Convention, so that women’s rights are fully protected throughout the country.

The Committee recommends that such measures should include, inter alia, the

provision of guidelines to local authorities on the drafting of local laws and the

rescinding of laws discriminating against women. The Committee encourages

the State party to obtain information on comparative legislation and

jurisprudence in which more progressive interpretations of Islamic law have

been codified and applied. It also urges the State party to take all necessary

steps to increase support for law reform, including through partnerships and

collaboration with Islamic jurisprudence research organizations, civil society

organizations, women’s non-governmental organizations and community

leaders, that is supportive of women’s equality.

15. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen the national

machinery, especially the Ministry of Women Empowerment, by providing it

with the necessary authority and adequate human and financial resources in

order to enhance its effectiveness in carrying out its mandate at all levels. It

further encourages the State party to broaden the mandate and authority of the

Ministry of Women Empowerment so that it may take a more active planning

and programmatic role. It also urges the State party to undertake concrete

measures to ensure that the gender equality mechanisms at all levels are fully

funded to implement their mandates.

The complete text can be accessed at http://www.ohchr.org/tbru/cedaw/Indonesia.pdf

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