A ROAD TO REPAIR WOMEN IN MOLUCCA ???
Many a man running down the street, one area in Ambon July 27, 2000, they intercept anyone who met in the street, with a machete drawn at the end there is a drop of blood

A woman came fear, a threat that a machete unsheathed a remaining drop of blood, one question that can not be answered at the end with the lives lost at the end of the machete that is remaining drops of his blood. Mayat perempuan di lego begitu saja ke dalam got. The bodies of women in lego just in the gutter.

On either side of me, children and women suffer the same fate. Ada yang beruntung tidak sampai tewas, namun yang tersisa adalah trauma. There are lucky not to die, but the remaining are traumatized.

A friend of mine in Aceh told the traumatic feelings that still remain, when DOM (Military Operations Area) took place, citing his father and older brother GAM followers, killing them in front of the eyes, mother of raped in front of the eye, and in the killing. It was her turn at the turn endlessly by many men berpostur sturdy. He kept it until now had crazy for it though.

My other colleagues in Papua, also a journalist, telling stories, in one tribe, a man who has lots of pork (symbol of prosperity of people of Papua), can marry many women and all living under one roof, to be servants for men. Women are second-class citizens who do not have any rights. They even had to work hard for oneself even have a husband.

Then the women in Aceh, Acehnese Women's Congress design. They were united, convey shouting kepenatannya, the results of women in Aceh could do more, they're in a lot of parties and given the widest possible opportunity, they repair themselves from the trauma of a long day.

So also in Papua, Papua Women's Congress, produces extraordinary recommendations, a woman managed to sit as vice chairman of the unity of the church as Papua, which has been difficult in women occupy.


So what do women want in a congress of the Moluccas.A question arises in the minds of many women Maluku. I interviewed some of them at random. From among politicians reveal, there is a desire to reach agreement, the woman must be committed with the 30 percent quota and women should choose a woman, so the bargaining position of women in politics could be more calculated. Because obviously more women voters than men.


From among the housewives, the simple desire, the right to live a more decent, fulfilling the needs of families, of course including free health and education over the intensifying.

In academic circles and the bureaucracy, the same opportunities given to women seluasnya to increase the opportunities get better facilities, could occupy a strategic position, is an effort that is worth fighting for.

Then the mama-Sibu and Sibu papale ask, one simple thing, with little capital and distance from the mountains and remote beaches to the market in the city, they hoped they were not in gusur when berjualanan, the pull of the levy should be and of course free pemalakan thugs from the market. They wished they could bring home some profits from the sale of a bundle ganemo or a fish.

Unlike a profession, nurses and health workers in hospitals, the hospital hoping their honorariums better meet the standards and pay on time, the housemaid in revealing the pain and snapped their employers could expect better appreciated and humanized.

As for the women victims of conflict who have lost homes, relatives and experiencing physically and mentally traumatic for 1999 Maluku conflict, or a partial conflict now occurs between kampung and ethnicity, expect, more men and give reducing egoismenya a safe and comfortable for children children and women, in order to live a normal life and can have a dream about the future expectations better. To bear and raise children in a healthy environment away from violence and and uncertainty.

Many complaints and expectations, but generally women Moluccas, hoping their rights and more exalted dignity, not tortured physically and mentally, in treating people properly, be given greater opportunities, not abused and humiliated.


Many women's empowerment program, prepared the central and local governments, but unfortunately there are many such programs do not touch the basic interests of women in real Moluccas.

Many women's homework for the long road toward the Moluccas recover or repair the situation to be more pro-women's interests.

Actually, the discussion about gender differences at the time of drafting, designing or implementing to rehabilitate the condition of women is unlikely to date. Patriarchal culture that has traditionally become a part of women's history and even Maluku Indonesia, a major cause of the difficulty of women's right to live a decent life and normal.

Then the representation of women could talk and discuss in Maluku Konges I Women who will be 29-31 degrees this January, to discuss thoroughly and gave birth to the best resolution recovery Maluku women? or just limited to an''activity''which just passed it. Then that's it. This precious moment should be a new milestone for women Maluku, designed to further the interests heard and considered. I hope so