Nursyahbani Katjasungkana<\/h2>\r\nBorn in Jakarta 7 April 1955, \u00a0and \u00a0graduated from Law Faculty of Airlangga University (1978) and having a specialization in Criminal law (1979)\u00a0 as well as having a post graduate diploma on International Comparative\u00a0 Sexual Orientation Law from Leiden University (2012) and on Bridging the Research-Policy Divide from National Centre of Epidemiology\u00a0 of Australian National University (2012).\r\n\r\nShe was the\u00a0 country prosecutor of the\u00a0 Women\u2019s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan\u2019s Military\u00a0 Sexual Slavery (2000), General Coordinator of The International Tribunal of 1965 Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2015) and member of judge panel of Permanent People Tribunal of Rohingnya (2017)\r\n\r\nShe is a Human Rights lawyer and for more than 40 years she has been working at several NGO\u2019s working on human and women\u2019s rights organizations as well as environmental issues. She was \u00a0member of People Consultative Assembly (1999-2004) and she has been elected as Member of Parliament (2004-2009) and acting as Vice Chair of National Awakening Party (2004-2013). \u00a0She used to work and to be Director of Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (1980-1993) and President of Indonesian Environmental Forum (WALHI) and currently acting as National Coordinator of Indonesian Legal Aid Association for Women and Chair of Board of Trustee of Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation, a leading women and human rights organization in Indonesia.\r\n\r\nShe was \u00a0Commissioner of the\u00a0\u00a0 National Commission on Violence Against Women (1998-2004) and the first Secretary General of the Indonesia Women\u2019s Coalition for Justice and Democracy (1998-2003).\r\n\r\nShe was a member of People Consultative Assembly (1999-2004) and she has been elected as Member of Parliament (2004-2009) and Vice Chair of National Awakening Party (2004-2014) and has long experience in legislative advocacy works. She used to work for three months with UNFPA (Jakarta office) and Gender Unit of Prime Minister\u2019s office of Timor Leste to prepare a Timor Leste Domestic Violence Bill.\u00a0 She is also Advisory Board of Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Culture (Netherlands) and co-Founder and now Coordinator of Kartini Asia Network, Gender and Women\u2019s Studies network in Asia also contributor of World Bank Women in Business\u00a0 and Law book as well as member of\u00a0 World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development (2013-2015).\r\n\r\nShe has also \u00a0been active as board member of Sexual and Bodily Rights Coalition in Moslem Society based in Jordan (2007-2014)\u00a0 as well as co-founder and chaired as Executive Board of Partnership for Good Governance (2011-2013). She also has experience in consultancy\u2019s works on the women\u2019s legal rights and involved in several fact-finding team on human rights violation during Soeharto era. For her commitment and work, \u00a0she was nominated as one \u00a0of Thousand \u00a0Noble Prize (2006).\r\n\r\nShe has a long experience as trainer for lawyer, legal enforcer member of local parliament, bureaucrat on \u00a0feminist\u2019s legal theory and practices including gender and shariah as well as\u00a0 on\u00a0 CEDAW and ILO Conventions especially on migrant worker\u2019s right. She has experiences as trainer on sexuality and sexual right for young researchers and activists\u00a0 under IASSC (International Association for the Study of\u00a0 Sexuality, Culture and Society) and Kartini Asia Network. She is developing a community based legal aid and provide a paralegal training to the community especially to women\u2019s survivor of VAW and trade union and labor\u2019s group. She was also a news paper columnist and had published 5 books on legal and violence against women issues and implementation of CEDAW. \u00a0She had published some articles in chapter of books and she has written many articles and conference papers. The latest chapter on Indonesia in the Grip of Fundamentalism : Legal Issues and Women Movement Responses was included in The Future of Asian Feminism in Confronting Fundamentalism, Conflicts and neo-Liberalism (published by Cambridge Scholar Publishing,2012). Her latest research on The Implementation on Domestic Violence Act in Indonesia\u00a0 is included in the\u00a0 \u201cFamily Ambiguity and The Domestic Violence in Asia (Sussex Academic Press, 2013). She also\u00a0 co-author of \u00a0heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia ( Sussex Academic Press, 2015), Creeping Criminalisation of LGBT in Indonesia (OutRight International 2017), \u00a0Propaganda and Genocide in Indonesia: Imagined Evil (Routledge 2018, forthcoming).\r\n\r\nShe was awarded as a leading women\u2019s right advocate in Indonesia from Nestle (Bear Brand Award, 1997), The Asia Foundation (2006),\u00a0 Femina Magazines (2007), Metro TV (2008),\u00a0 Matra Magazine as well as Kartini Abad ini (Kartini of this Century,1989) and Women in Development Award ( 1997). In 2007 and\u00a0 2008, GLOBE ASIA magazine put Nursyahbani Katjasungkana\u00a0 as number 51 of\u00a0\u00a0 99 powerful women in Indonesia.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nursyahbani Katjasungkana Born in Jakarta 7 April 1955, \u00a0and \u00a0graduated from Law Faculty of Airlangga University (1978) and having a specialization in Criminal law (1979)\u00a0 as well as having a <\/p>\n