The Construction of Representation of Women in ASEAN Literatures on Political Roles

Abstract

This article was a part of qualitative research entitled the representation of ASEAN community in ASEAN Literatures. The objective was to analyze the construction of representation of women in ASEAN community with political roles. Population was 21 copies of ASEAN literatures by using concept of representation, discourse, semiology and cultural studies as analyzing procedure.

            The result found that ASEAN literature presented the representation of women and politics in 2 titles that were Roi Yang Kao (Indonesia) and Fai Dap Mai Sin Saeng (The Lao People's Democratic Republic). The author composed the main female characters to represent women for liberating rules of Muslim community and for being Lao women in socialism who were good personality, tender, resolutely and having the important roles in politics.Those roles were planner, negotiator for women right and democracy in order to lay the political foundation.Sign was the use of femininity to negotiate society and politics. The discourse was the equality of humankind.The ideology was the liberalism in Muslim women and Lao women for saving the nations. In a process of construction of women representation in a role of wife found that women valued the importance of nation prior to personal and she supported her husband to drive the political issues, honored him including followed the rules, regulation, and customs as a position of wife.