Indonesian Women’s Engagement in Extremism: Understanding Gender-Specific Involvement and Policy Responses (2016 – 2021)

This thesis examines the root causes of women’s engagement with violent extremism and analyses how these causes are interpreted (or misinterpreted) in the government’s efforts to develop and implement policy responses. The thesis argues that failure to respond to the complexity of women’s agency policy in Indonesian CT and PVE can in part be explained by the pervasive presence in Indonesia of a patriarchal gender order which creates powerful assumptions, expectations and responses regarding men and women’s roles in relation to violent extremism.