Abstract
Stratégie internationale de la France pour l'égalité femmes-hommes (2018-2022) is an international strategy on gender promoted by the French Government. It aims to promote the value of gender equality and women's empowerment, especially in protecting women's rights from any acts of violence in the European Union. Unfortunately, the French Government has shown inconsistencies in the implementation of the feminist foreign policy, which has increased the number of violence from the beginning of this policy until nowadays. This research was conceived by a liberal feminism approach and conceptualized under the feminist foreign policy and patriarchy concepts to prove the determining factor of inconsistency in feminist foreign policy that set out in the frame of Stratégie internationale de la France pour l'égalité femmes-hommes (2018-2022). The argument can be proceeded by conducting an explanatory qualitative method. The data research is based on primary and secondary data sources through document studies. This research proved that France's inconsistency of feminist foreign policy is caused by France’s cultural matter of patriarchal values. Patriarchal values can be indicated through five indicators: policy regulations, funding systems, government structures, EU cooperative relations, and actors involved in the policy. As a result, gender-based violence is still very common in society and gender equality is impossible to achieve as long as policies and laws reformed by the government still contain elements of patriarchy.
Bahasa Abstract
Stratégie internationale de la France pour l'égalité femmes-hommes (2018-2022) merupakan strategi internasional terkait gender yang digaungkan oleh Pemerintah Prancis. Strategi ini bertujuan untuk mempromosikan nilai-nilai kesetaraan gender dan pemberdayaan perempuan, khususnya dalam melindungi hak-hak perempuan dari segala bentuk kekerasan di Uni Eropa. Sayangnya, Pemerintah Prancis telah menunjukkan inkonsistensi dalam penerapan kebijakan luar negeri feminis, yang mengakibatkan meningkatnya angka kekerasan sejak awal kebijakan ini diterapkan hingga saat ini. Penelitian ini digarap dengan menggunakan pendekatan feminisme liberal dan dikonseptualisasikan berdasarkan konsep kebijakan luar negeri feminis dan patriarki untuk membuktikan faktor penentu inkonsistensi kebijakan luar negeri feminis yang dituangkan dalam Stratégie internationale de la France pour l'égalité femmes-hommes (2018-2022). Argumentasi dapat dilanjutkan dengan melakukan metode kualitatif eksplanatif. Penelitian ini didasarkan pada sumber data primer dan sekunder melalui studi dokumen. Penelitian ini membuktikan bahwa inkonsistensi kebijakan luar negeri Prancis yang feminis disebabkan oleh masalah budaya Prancis yang masih kental akan nilai-nilai patriarki. Nilai-nilai patriarki dapat ditunjukkan melalui lima indikator, yaitu regulasi kebijakan, sistem pendanaan, struktur pemerintahan, hubungan kerja sama Uni Eropa, dan aktor yang terlibat dalam kebijakan tersebut. Akibatnya, kekerasan berbasis gender masih sangat marak di masyarakat dan kesetaraan gender mustahil tercapai selama kebijakan dan undang-undang yang direformasi pemerintah masih mengandung unsur patriarki.
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"The Determining Factor of Inconsistencies in French Feminist Foreign Policy in the Field of Protection Against Women’s Violence,"
Journal of Strategic and Global Studies: Vol. 8:
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DOI: 10.7454/jsgs.v8i1.1162
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