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...Together with Indonesia's most prominent male feminist cleric, Kyai Husein Muhammad, Marcoes-Natsir has developed a course for teaching gender equality in Islam. On a hot summer morning in Cirebon, Northern Java, she taught a workshop on reproductive health, which had her gamely sketching fallopian tubes on a white-board, and parsing Quranic verses on reproductive rights. From the young men and women students, there were nods, furious scribblings, and the odd giggle. And then there was the group of young women, all majoring in gender studies at the local Islamic college, who were snapping pictures to post...
...that these ideas don't find resistence: There's a strong tradition of male authority in Indonesia, as well as a more recent trend towards fundamentalism, so feminists have to be careful to pick kyais who will be open to their teachings. Jakarta-based feminist activist Lies Marcoes-Natsir says much of her work is protecting indigenous Indonesian Islamic culture from the spread of stricter, Saudi-style Wahhabi interpretations of Islam. "The good thing is that [Indonesia's religious scholars] are also worried about Wahhabism, so we can work hand-in-hand with them," she says. Tellingly, Marcoes-Natsir finds...
What the rebels need most is allies, and here they are experiencing the most difficulty. Natsir lingers in Padang still uncommitted, but still the probable candidate for President, if the rebels are forced to disavow Sukarno. A key man is Colonel Barlian, commander of South Sumatra. His area includes the rich Stanvac and Shell oilfields and refineries at Palembang, which supply most of Djakarta's gasoline. Padang's Colonel Husein is his closest friend, and he is with the rebels in spirit but, so far, hesitates to disown Djakarta. Possible reasons: his region is heavily settled by migrant...
...Late? Djuanda's compromise might have come too late. In Padang, Roem found some civilian leaders receptive. "But," Masjumi Party Chairman Mohammed Natsir told him, "it is not for us to decide." Plainly, Colonel Maludin Simbolon and his fellow colonels have grown increasingly impatient with Sukarno's attempts to solve the crisis by postponement, and the colonels' power is decisive in Padang's councils. For they control most of oil-and rubber-rich Sumatra (which they propose to make the base of their counter-government if Sukarno cannot be brought to terms), can also claim scattered...
Even the Masjumi Party's Natsir, while counseling moderation and patience, had himself turned outspokenly critical of Su karno. "West Irian [West New Guinea] was not a real issue for Sukarno," Natsir wrote in an open letter published in the Sumatra press. "It was only the stepping-stone for a far greater strategical move-the severance of all relations with the Western democracies, and the use of the economic and political consequences of this action to bring Indonesia into the Soviet bloc...