Riau to set up Women's Center

Riau to set up Women's Center

PEKANBARu, Riau: Women grouped in several organizations in
Riau plan to establish a center to help settle problems arising
in the province.

"God willing, Women's Center will be set up in October," local
activist Septina Primawati Rusli said after a dialog with female
members of legislative councils in Riau on Sunday.

She said the planned establishment of the center was inspired
by growing concern over the fate of uneducated women in the
province.

Out of Riau's 5.5 million people, over 2.6 million or 49.70
percent are women but only 498,461 of them completed elementary
schools, Septina said.

The poor level of education, she added, was a contributing
factor behind the small number of local women who have occupied
strategic public positions at provincial and national levels.
--Antara