Nurul urges women to enter politics

Nurul urges women to enter politics

JAKARTA: Actor-cum-politician Nurul Arifin says misperceptions
among Indonesian women makes them reluctant to enter politics.

Nurul, who recently joined Golkar, the political bandwagon of
former dictator Soeharto, said most women thought politics was
the domain of men and was evil.

"Politics is not evil. It is the politicians that commit
evil," Nurul said in a discussion at the House of Representatives
(DPR) on Wednesday.

She called on women to enter the fray to improve discourse on
issues impacting on women, such as infant mortality and maternal
deaths, and unemployment.

Also speaking at the discussion were legislator Ida Fauziyah
of the National Awakening Party (PKB) and women's rights
activists Ulfa Hermanto and Tunggal Pramesti.

They all agreed that women must be encouraged to enter
politics to create a better political condition. -- JP