Gendering Adat Law: Womens Rights Activists in Balinese Customary Affairs

Balinese society is deeply influenced by patriarchy. In this male-dominated society, the rights of women have long been marginalized within the family as well as in customary affairs. Customarily, they are not involved in decision-making nor entitled to inheritance and their position is vulnerable with regard to marriage and divorce (Parker in From subjects to citizens: Balinese villagers in the Indonesian Nation-State. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, 2003; Rhoads in Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 31(2), 35-56, 2012; Creese in Indonesia and the Malay World, 44, 84�103, 2016). When they get married, they leave their original family to move into their husband�s extended family; however, in the new family, they remain an �outsider�. © 2023 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.