Women's Role in Indonesian Legislative - Bagus W. Ruswandi

Advanced world doesn’t always mean advanced people. In every inch on this world, the communities, the countries, the people that we thought were “advanced” are actually not. In a country, problems arise not only because the leaders, the government, the parliament, are not capable of doing their duty -- although here we see them making stupid mistakes a lot -- but problems arise also because the people in many countries do not have the awareness of hand-in-hand making the society better. One of the problems that we see the most is the discrimination issue. We’ve seen and heard a lot about this but still, somehow no action has been done. Within sociology, 'discrimination' is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. Discrimination is the actual behavior towards members of another group. It involves excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to other groups . Moral philosophers have defined it as disadvantageous treatment or consideration. This is a comparative definition. An individual need not be actually harmed in order to be discriminated against. He or she just needs to be treated worse than others for some arbitrary reason. If someone decides to donate to help orphan children, but decides to donate less, say, to Chinese children out of a racist attitude, he or she will be acting in a discriminatory way even if he or she actually benefits the people he discriminates against by donating some money to them. Discrimination revolves around so many aspects of life and it indeed violates the very basic of human rights. Aspects such as race, sex, caste, employment are some of the most popular discrimination issues happening around us. But what’s been troubling me is those issues arise that deal with sex, gender, even gender identity discrimination.