Asima Yanty Siahaan
Biographic Data
| ID | 173398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asima Yanty Siahaan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asima Yanty |
| FAMILY NAME | Siahaan |
| SIGNATURE | SIAHAAN A Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitas Sumatera Utara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8237-8178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Invisible Work, Digital Solidarity
WhatsApp has become a crucial yet understudied digital space through which women sustain practices of care, solidarity, and knowledge exchange in under‐resourced mental health contexts. In Indonesia, where women disproportionately shoulder responsibility for caring for family members with schizophrenia, caregiving remains emotionally demanding, structurally unsupported, and socially undervalued. This study examines how a semi‐private WhatsApp gro…
We campaign just by gathering 20 people’
How do we understand the gendered campaign styles of women candidates contesting elections in which they are structurally constrained with a low probability of success? We introduce the term ‘suboptimal campaigning’ as a gendered campaign style to emphasise the accommodations women make due to broader gender orders that put them at an electoral disadvantage. Research with 24 female candidates in the 2024 local legislative elections in Medan, Indo…
Research Driven Dialogs
Research Driven Dialogs (RDDs) are a method for collective sense-making and collaborative reflection on research findings by a range of stakeholders hoping to better understand and address a complex problem. Research findings are opened up through a process of dialog; implications for practice and action are co-designed by participants in ways that are compatible with institutional and sociocultural realities. RDDs thereby coproduce knowledge in …
Sites of infrastructure, apprenticeship and possibilities for self
Women are under‐represented in Indonesian legislatures, and those women who are elected are disproportionately from ‘elite’ backgrounds. This research sought to understand the conditions for women to succeed in politics in conditions of patriarchy and clientelist politics. Research in North Sumatera, Indonesia, revealed that many women did not make the conscious decision not to enter politics, but rather found that they had not established the re…
Broken Pathways to Politics
This article seeks to explain why so few women make the journey from social activism and community work to standing for election. Comparative research in Indonesia and Sri Lanka reveals four operations critical to mending the broken pathway to politics for non-elite women. Transference entails the recognition and valuing of women’s preexisting skills, knowledge and experiences gained through grassroots activity for the political field. Amplificat…
Is money an insurmountable barrier to women’s political representation in transactional democracies? Evidence from North Sumatera, Indonesia
Elections are expensive, disadvantaging women with limited access to financial resources. Strategies to address this problem have focused on increasing women’s campaign funds or lowering costs such as nomination fees. While important, such strategies will not overcome the disadvantages women face in countries where “transactional politics” is rife, with voter expectations for gifts and/or cash multiplying the costs of elections. Following the 201…
From campus to legislatures
The path from student politics to electoral politics is a well-worn one across Asia. Literature examining this pathway overwhelmingly does so from the perspective of men, failing to adequately acknowledge women's relative inability to make the transition from campuses to legislatures in the same way. This article focuses on Indonesian women's experiences to explain why they remain underrepresented in politics and sheds light on the ways its stude…
The Ethics of Social Care in Indonesia
This article draws on feminist scholarship to examine the ethics of “social care” in Indonesia. We explore three different relationships of care: between politicians and their constituents, between women health-care workers and villagers, and between volunteers and the recipients of government benefits. Through a comparison of our three case studies, we demonstrate the diverse meanings attached to “care”, and the consequences of these differences…
Broken Pathways to Politics
This article seeks to explain why so few women make the journey from social activism and community work to standing for election. Comparative research in Indonesia and Sri Lanka reveals four operations critical to mending the broken pathway to politics for non-elite women. Transference entails the recognition and valuing of women’s preexisting skills, knowledge and experiences gained through grassroots activity for the political field. Amplificat…
Is money an insurmountable barrier to women’s political representation in transactional democracies? Evidence from North Sumatera, Indonesia
Elections are expensive, disadvantaging women with limited access to financial resources. Strategies to address this problem have focused on increasing women’s campaign funds or lowering costs such as nomination fees. While important, such strategies will not overcome the disadvantages women face in countries where “transactional politics” is rife, with voter expectations for gifts and/or cash multiplying the costs of elections. Following the 201…
The Ethics of Social Care in Indonesia
This article draws on feminist scholarship to examine the ethics of “social care” in Indonesia. We explore three different relationships of care: between politicians and their constituents, between women health-care workers and villagers, and between volunteers and the recipients of government benefits. Through a comparison of our three case studies, we demonstrate the diverse meanings attached to “care”, and the consequences of these differences…
Research Driven Dialogs
Research Driven Dialogs (RDDs) are a method for collective sense-making and collaborative reflection on research findings by a range of stakeholders hoping to better understand and address a complex problem. Research findings are opened up through a process of dialog; implications for practice and action are co-designed by participants in ways that are compatible with institutional and sociocultural realities. RDDs thereby coproduce knowledge in …
The Ethics of Social Care in Indonesia
This article draws on feminist scholarship to examine the ethics of “social care” in Indonesia. We explore three different relationships of care: between politicians and their constituents, between women health-care workers and villagers, and between volunteers and the recipients of government benefits. Through a comparison of our three case studies, we demonstrate the diverse meanings attached to “care”, and the consequences of these differences…
Is money an insurmountable barrier to women’s political representation in transactional democracies? Evidence from North Sumatera, Indonesia
Elections are expensive, disadvantaging women with limited access to financial resources. Strategies to address this problem have focused on increasing women’s campaign funds or lowering costs such as nomination fees. While important, such strategies will not overcome the disadvantages women face in countries where “transactional politics” is rife, with voter expectations for gifts and/or cash multiplying the costs of elections. Following the 201…
From campus to legislatures
The path from student politics to electoral politics is a well-worn one across Asia. Literature examining this pathway overwhelmingly does so from the perspective of men, failing to adequately acknowledge women's relative inability to make the transition from campuses to legislatures in the same way. This article focuses on Indonesian women's experiences to explain why they remain underrepresented in politics and sheds light on the ways its stude…
Sites of infrastructure, apprenticeship and possibilities for self
Women are under‐represented in Indonesian legislatures, and those women who are elected are disproportionately from ‘elite’ backgrounds. This research sought to understand the conditions for women to succeed in politics in conditions of patriarchy and clientelist politics. Research in North Sumatera, Indonesia, revealed that many women did not make the conscious decision not to enter politics, but rather found that they had not established the re…
Broken Pathways to Politics
This article seeks to explain why so few women make the journey from social activism and community work to standing for election. Comparative research in Indonesia and Sri Lanka reveals four operations critical to mending the broken pathway to politics for non-elite women. Transference entails the recognition and valuing of women’s preexisting skills, knowledge and experiences gained through grassroots activity for the political field. Amplificat…
Research Driven Dialogs
Research Driven Dialogs (RDDs) are a method for collective sense-making and collaborative reflection on research findings by a range of stakeholders hoping to better understand and address a complex problem. Research findings are opened up through a process of dialog; implications for practice and action are co-designed by participants in ways that are compatible with institutional and sociocultural realities. RDDs thereby coproduce knowledge in …
Invisible Work, Digital Solidarity
WhatsApp has become a crucial yet understudied digital space through which women sustain practices of care, solidarity, and knowledge exchange in under‐resourced mental health contexts. In Indonesia, where women disproportionately shoulder responsibility for caring for family members with schizophrenia, caregiving remains emotionally demanding, structurally unsupported, and socially undervalued. This study examines how a semi‐private WhatsApp gro…
We campaign just by gathering 20 people’
How do we understand the gendered campaign styles of women candidates contesting elections in which they are structurally constrained with a low probability of success? We introduce the term ‘suboptimal campaigning’ as a gendered campaign style to emphasise the accommodations women make due to broader gender orders that put them at an electoral disadvantage. Research with 24 female candidates in the 2024 local legislative elections in Medan, Indo…
Gender Politics and Representation (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Legislature (3 works) · Elite (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)