The Colonial Heritage of Human Rights in Indonesia: The Case of the Vote for Women, 1916-41.

From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: Locher-Scholten, Elsbeth | Copyright information

This article argues that the human rights tradition in Indonesia has colonial as well as Indonesian roots, while universalist claims of Western human rights activists date from the post-colonial period. The point is demonstrated by analyzing one case of human rights: the struggle for the female vote for city councils, which was won in 1941. The Dutch colonial government was slow to recognize voting rights for European women, but even slower to do so with regard to women from Indonesian and ...

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