Khofifah Indar Parawansa
| Khofifah Indar Parawansa | |
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| Minister of Social Affairs | |
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Assumed office 27 October 2014 |
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| President | Joko Widodo |
| Preceded by | Salim Segaf Al-Jufri |
| Minister of Female Empowerment and Child Protection | |
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In office 26 October 1999 – 9 August 2001 |
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| President | Abdurrahman Wahid |
| Preceded by | Tutty Alawiyah |
| Succeeded by | Sri Redjeki Sumarjoto |
| Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives | |
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In office 1 October 1999 – 26 October 1999 |
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| President | Abdurrahman Wahid |
| Preceded by | Syarwan Hamid |
| Succeeded by | Muhaimin Iskandar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 May 1965 Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia |
| Citizenship | Indonesian |
| Political party | National Awakening Party |
| Alma mater |
Airlangga University (dra.) University of Indonesia (M.I.P.) |
Khofifah Tegistha Indar Parawansa is the 27th and current Minister of Social Affairs of Indonesia. She also served as the fifth Minister for Female Empowerment as well as the chairwoman of the Family Planning Board in the National Unity Cabinet, and is also a former Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives.
She was elected chairwoman of the Muslimat Nahdlatul Ulama, an Islamic women's group affiliated to Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), for the period 2000 to 2005, and reelected three times, most recently in 2016 for the 2016-2021 period.
She announced that the government aimed to shut down 100 red-light districts by 2019 in a bid to eradicate prostitution. As of February 2016, sixty-eight red-light districts were closed down. In August 2015, she launched the "2015 Prostitution-Free National Movement" during a working visit to Jayapura, West Papua. The Tanjung Elmo red-light district located in Sentani, West Papua, is to be closed down. Commercial sex workers will be sent back to their hometowns and given five million rupiahs (around 500 usd) from the social affairs ministry in addition to another five million rupiahs given by the Jayapura provincial government, in order to find "decent jobs".
She tells the House of Representatives (DPR) on 16 January 2016, that the ministry of social affairs does not acknowledge the category and term LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) and only recognizes "people living with HIV/AIDS and minorities". She further adds that the ministry of social affairs' task is "to restore the respective social behaviours of men and women", an effort which "needs to be maximised in order to go back to the way it was before".
In reaction to the Jakarta November 2016 protests, Parawansa as well as Indonesian National Armed Forces Commander Gatot Nurmantyo, Indonesian National Police Tito Karnavian and Islamic activist Yenny Wahid marched in support of interfaith unity as a counterbalance to earlier protests against Jakarta's Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama which included elements of extremism.
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