Nusantara Feminism: The Nature of the Confluence of Religious Values, Cultural Customs and the Indonesian Womens Movement. (The Struggle Bullet of Rahmah El Yunusiyyah)
Annisa Rahma

Pancasila University

Abstract

Pancasila as the state philosophy system is the result of the perfect ^potion^ between the harmonization of deep contemplation of the soul of the ancestors of the nation with the biological wealth of Indonesian society, which contains a complete unity- interrelated, interconnected, mutually qualifying each other. Pancasila is the foundation and direction for the attitude and way of life of the Indonesian nation, in line with the goals of the Indonesian state, including in terms of viewing women as a vital element of national progress. Feminism has the same tangent as Pancasila when looking at diversity of viewpoints. But this time, we will not talk about feminism that comes from the West or the far East there, but feminism that unconsciously has been present among the joints of the Indonesian Women^s Struggle, Nusantara Feminism.

Nusantara feminism, not Liberal feminism that consciously pays too much attention to the values of individualism and human independence, not radical feminism that emphasizes the roots of oppression solely on patriarchy and men, or Marxist feminism, socialist, and various other schools of feminism. Feminism Nusantara is a perfect match between anxiety over the oppression of Indonesian women who fought to improve the position of women, without forgetting the roots of a grounded culture. Ideas, theories, and main points of mind, as well as the idea of feminism archipelago is the strength of the Indonesian women heroes in the fight for their ^entity^- one of them is Rahmah El Yunusiyah.

Rahmah El Yunusiyah is a heroine from Minangkabau, a populous land in which there is perfect harmonization between local wisdom and religious values -adat basandi syarak, syarak basandi kitabullah&#8722- which because of these values the Minangkabau inherited a lot of Indigenous and cultural wealth. Rahmah El Yunusiyah, the first woman to establish an Islamic school for women, the first woman to fly the red and white flag on the Sumatran Peninsula, and the first woman in world history to earn the title of ^Sheikhah^ from Al Azhar University in Cairo. The combination of beauty, elegance and charisma of a Rahmah El Yunusiyah is proof that Indonesian feminism creates a harmonious relationship between religious values, customs, and forms a crystallization of a new living system, eliminating cracked things, eliminating the opposition between the call of society or the call of nature, producing a new element of community work and motherly love in one happy synthesis without forgetting cultural roots.

Keywords: Pancasila, Nusantara Feminism, Rahmah El Yunusiyah.

Topic: Local Wisdom (Customary Law)