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Journal : LITERARY CRITICISM

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND FAITH BASED REGULATION Rosana, Yenni
LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 2, No 2 (2015)
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Women are human beings that should have rights as well as men. In the past women were only wives and mothers. However, nowadays many women achieve high positions in the workplace and social life. This achievement would be impossible without the work of feminist that have struggled to fight for women empowerment. This paper discusses women empowerment struggle and development process in comparison between Australia and Indonesia from the beginning to the contemporary era deals with faith of the communities. The reasons, of studying these two countries are because the two countries are different in levels of development and culture. Australia is developed country that recognizable as a very multicultural country where being engaged in a religion is not compulsory where Muslim people is minority among the population, the majority of Australian that belief in faith are Christian; meanwhile Indonesia is a developing country that has the biggest Muslim populations in the world. The methodology of writing will be study of published literatures on the issue. This paper will show how the two countries adapt ideological backgrounds of populations to support the women empowerment.  Keywords : Women, Gender, faith, Muslim, Islam, Indonesia, Australia, Empowerment
Liberal Feminism in the Little Women Novel by Louisa May Alcott (1868) Putri, Selvi Eka; Rosana, Yenni
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 4 No 1 (2018)
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The Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a fictional novel, the setting during the civil war period in America in the 19th century. This novel tells the story of the March family who face so many challenges in their life. This study aims to analyze the March family members’ characters and  find out how the women in March family were struggling to solve the difficulties in their life using the liberal feminism theory, which prioritizes women's freedom in achieving their rights. Following the theory, the women characters in this novel were classified into two themes. The first theme is leadership which including being a leader and being an influential figure. The second theme is independence, which is also divided into being independent thinkers and independent to support themselves and family. Keywords: Women, Struggle, Little Women Novel, Liberal Feminism theory
THE SYNERGY BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY WELFARE rosana, yenni
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 5 No 1 (2019): Literary and Criticism
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The government plays an important role in guaranteeing the success of a country.  Similarly, for a province; the government of a province should take actions to improve the capacity of the province. However, when the government cannot synergize its role with the mandate of civil society organizations, the community will be living in an ambiguous situation. Civil society organizations can act against the government. Meanwhile, there could be some of the community will choose to be in the civil society organizations? side, or in the government?s side. This essay will describe how the Aceh Province in Indonesia has experienced various changes in the lives of its people because there was no synergistic opinion between the government and certain civil society organizations. Meanwhile, community welfare is the main goal to be achieved, so it is necessary to have good cooperation between government and civil society organizations. Although civil society organizations will act as oppositions or partners, it should aim for the better life of the community.   Keywords: Government, Civil Society Organizations, Community welfare  
GENDER EQUALITY AND FAITH-BASED REGULATION Rosana, Yenni
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 2 No 2 (2015)
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This paper discusses women?s struggle in achieving the rights to be equal by comparing between Australia and Indonesia. This paper is a literature review that aims to analyze the differences and similarities faced by feminist in the two countries that adopt very different socio-cultural background, Western culture in Australia and Eastern culture in Indonesia. Besides, Islam as the religion of majority Indonesians is often blamed to barrier women to have equal right. Meanwhile, in Australia, being engaged in a religion is not compulsory and Muslims are the minority. Interestingly, there are contradict arguments, while many argued the influence of Western to support women in Indonesia to receive their rights; the history has recorded that Muslim women in Indonesia had attained higher education equal to men and had important positions in politics long before the term women emancipation was introduced in Australia. The methodology of writing is by analyzing secondary data from published literature on the issue. Moreover, this study found out that the ideological backgrounds of majority populations in each country influence gender equality achievement. From the two themes discussed (1) The Voice of the Majority in Determining the Implemented Law, (2) Faith-Based Organization and Woman Emancipation. The conclusion here,  there are controversial regulations in Islam including burqa banning and polygamy, however, how those regulations stated in Muslims? scripture are often misinterpreted. The rule of civil society organizations is important to empower women however beyond that is to understand the voice of majority populations to succeed in the program implementation. Keywords: women equality, gender, faith, Muslim, Islam, Indonesia, Australia,