Gender Equality in Social Media [Gender Mapping Concept in Indonesian Feminist Communities]

Abstract

Gender equality is not a new issue that exist in Indonesia. However, it seems that the issue of equality is also problem that we cannot find the solution easily. Although there are several universities that already have opened gender-focused study programs, this movement has begun emerge outside of academic atmosphere, especially in this era of disruption. In this era, many feminist communities and movements begin to penetrate the social media, especially in Instagram. In the course of its journey, it turns out that there are several variants of the feminist movements that live and continue to grow today. Based on these facts, writer want to know how the model of educational spread, the content and the point of view of each feminist communities. Here, research methodology that writer will use is quantitative descriptive analysis and interview to find the mapping concept from feminist communities in Indonesia. Writer also limit the objects of feminist communities on Instagram including; @indonesiafeminis, @cherbonfeminis and @affcindonesia as accounts that actively give their respond to gender equality issue in Indonesia today and also can represent the model of the feminist ideology in Indonesia. The result of this research is that @indonesiafeminis account as a representation of liberal movement community and did not focus on the difference of ethnicity, race and religion in their contents, @cherbonfeminis as a community that represents moderate model on spreading Islamic feminism in their content and @affcindonesia as a representation progressive movement that using anarchy-feminist as their ideology.