Janus Faced of Women's Parliament Family Line: Representation of Women in Politics and Party Oligarchy

• Main Authors: Ardhana Ulfa Azis, Mia Siscawati
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International journal of multicultural and multireligious understanding 2021-02-01
• Series: International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding
• Subjects: women parliament; family path; political representation; political oligarchy
• Online Access: https://ijmmu.com/index.php/ijmmu/article/view/2404

The implementation of affirmative quota policies by political structures, especially political parties as one of the elements of the political infrastructure, has provided the widest possible opportunity for women to be directly involved in the political process, such as becoming members of parliament to carry out over sight, budgeting, and legislative functions: the making and policymaking and political decisions. This research examines how women in the family path of the 2019’s election results, on the one hand, their faces are seen as political representatives of women in parliament, but on the other hand, they are also seen as representatives of the interests of party oligarchy in parliament. We explored the filling of affirmative quotas for female parliamentary candidates from the family line by political parties which allowed us to identify women parliamentarians from the family line as having two faces, namely as women's political representatives as well as party political representatives. In a stronger party oligarchy, we argue that filling the affirmative quota of female parliamentary candidates from the family line apart from being urged by the affirmative quota policy for 30%women's political representation, is also motivated by the interests of party oligarchy. We adopt the thoughts of Anne Phillips (1991) about the politics of presence which sees that women's representation in parliament starts from the number, not from the policies they produce.