Nusa Dua, 14 November 2022. The Post-Summit of Women20 (W20) just took place, 13-14 November 2022, in Nusa Dua, Bali. This last meeting in Indonesia also marks the end of the W20 Indonesia leadership stick this year, in accordance with the end of the Indonesian Presidency at the G20 forum. India, which will lead the G20 in 2023, will also lead the W20 throughout the next year.
In her remarks, the Indonesian Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA), Bintang Puspayoga, said that in fact through this Post Summit, the W20 Presidency of Indonesia also hoped that the four main issues related to women's empowerment that had been set during the Indonesian presidency could be continued at the W20 Presidency of India next year. These issues include:
Bintang Puspayoga added that in the first and second issues, the emphasis was on how to promote equality, security, and welfare by eliminating discrimination policies. In addition, it also describes how to achieve economic inclusion through support for MSMEs owned and managed by women. It also discussed the importance of embracing intersectionality to accelerate the progress of women's empowerment.
Meanwhile, on the third and fourth issues, W20 Indonesia places more emphasis on the health response of marginalized women, especially those in rural areas and people with disabilities. This issue describes how global challenges related to the Covid-19 pandemic have disproportionately impacted women. The pandemic has greatly impacted the health of mothers, families, and even services for women victims of gender-based violence. Furthermore, W20 wants to highlight the health response, especially those with gender justice.
The Chair of W20 Indonesia, Hadriani Uli Silalahi, said that to truly achieve gender equality, W20 needs to emphasize the importance of accountability. Therefore, the G20's focus on gender equality needs to be monitored and evaluated regularly. W20 Indonesia has consistently called on G20 leaders to issue declarations that focus on the importance of gender equality.
Uli also said that at the last W20 meeting, Indonesia also ensured the implementation of four main agendas, namely:
"W20 is the first working group and engagement group from the G20 Indonesian presidency that has completed the post-summit with good results. This achievement also shows the W20 presidency of Indonesia as the best and most comprehensive working group and engagement group in producing “Communique” and completing all series of meetings since it started in last December 2021", explained Uli further.
In the conclusion of the post-summit results, the Co-Chair of W20 Indonesia, Dian Siswarini, said, “Since W20 Indonesia has officially submitted the W20 “Communique” in July, I hope that this Post-Summit event will continue to strengthen our recommendations, so that our requests will be heard by the world leaders and be part of the discussions of the upcoming G20 summit.”
The W20 Indonesia “Communique” itself contains recommendations to G20 leaders to ensure that the interests of women and girls become a significant part of Indonesia's G20 presidency. Directly, W20 Indonesia encourages the government to:
In this series of post-summits, 6 speakers were W20 2022 delegates from Indonesia, India, Italy, Russia, Turkey, and the United States. Each delegate explained about 5 priority issues of W20 discussed in the “Communique”, namely: non-discrimination and equality, women-owned and led MSMEs, gender equitable health response, rural women, and women with disabilities.
The meeting in Bali also discussed several themes by presenting speakers from Indonesia and abroad. There was the Acting Deputy of Community Participation, Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (Kemen PPPA), Indra Gunawan who brought material on discrimination, women's MSMEs, and women in rural areas. AirAsia Indonesia CEO, Veranita Yosephine, discussed women's leadership and the role of the private sector in combating gender bias. Then there was the Head of the WeFi Secretariat, Wendy Teleki, who discussed finance and economic inclusion. Special Staff for Fiscal and Macroeconomic Affairs, Ministry of Finance of Indonesia, Masyita Crystallin, discussed economic inclusion in women's territory interventions.
Then it was continued with the Special Staff of the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Angkie Yudistia, who shared about how to employ and retain women with disabilities in the public sector. Furthermore, the European Parliament Forum, Neil Datta, discussed rural women's health and sexual reproductive health. Then there was the Mayor of Garut Regency, Rudy Gunawan, who spoke about the economic empowerment of rural women through the creative economy. After that, there was Organon's Executive Director of Global Public Policy, Noha Salem, who focused on discussing how to invest in medical research and technology for women and girls. Finally, from the Center for Health Management of the Vlerick Business School, Prof. Dr. Walter Van Dyck, who launched his research on the importance of policies related to family planning.
A total of no less than 500 participants who were delegates from nine countries attended the W20 Post-Summit in Bali in person. They came from Argentina, Australia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Britain, the United States, the European Union to Portugal. According to Dian, the presence and enthusiasm of the overseas participants showed that the efforts made by the W20 Presidency of Indonesia for the past 11 months have received the attention of all G20 member countries.
Throughout the Indonesian presidency, W20 has held five meetings and various accompanying activities in different locations. The selected locations are the main tourist destinations for Indonesia, with the hope that the W20 meeting will be able to help raise the tourism potential of each location. The first meeting took place in Likupang, North Sulawesi. Batu, East Java, and Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan as the second and third meeting locations. Then proceed to Manokwari, West Papua. Then, before the post-summit in Bali, the W20 Indonesia Summit had been taken place in Lake Toba, North Sumatra.