ReIShaping Policies for Creativity and Gender Equality in Indonesia

The project ReIShaping Policies for Creativity and Artistic Freedom provides a unique opportunity for Indonesia to capitalize on its recent actions to consolidate established participatory mechanisms through the design of a gender-transformative action plan/measure for the cultural and creative sectors.
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Last update:28 April 2023

Context

In the past years, Indonesia has become an important creative hub in the Southeast Asian Region, hosting international gatherings on policy making supporting creativity. CCIs were notably integrated in national strategic frameworks, such as the 2018-2025 National Master Plan for Creative Economy Development. Since its ratification of the 2005 Convention in 2012, Indonesia has engaged in various innovative initiatives to promote dynamic creative and cultural sectors in the country, partnering with UNESCO on many occasions to strengthen its CCI ecosystem.

In the framework of the SIDA funded projects, it engaged twice in participatory policy monitoring on policies and measures in favor of the diversity of cultural expressions, which was a fruitful opportunity to sensitize a wide range of policy makers and cultural professionals on emerging themes such as artistic freedom, gender equality and media diversity and advance them on the policy agenda. Capacities on media diversity were notably reinforced and formalized through the elaboration of a specialized monitoring framework. Indonesia has also undertaken national capacities strengthening initiatives to monitor and design policies on artistic freedom and fair remuneration in the digital environment, through the .

Furthermore, gender equality in CCIs have become integrated as an emerging area of action. Indonesia has notably engaged in robust data collection and stakeholders’ dialogues on gender equality in the Southeast Asian film industry. This led to the elaboration of training materials on gender-inclusive guidelines for the audio-visual sector, to be tested for the first time in 2023 with the support of Japan.

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