Equality and justice are still problems that continue to occur in society. The Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection of the Republic of Indonesia itself has stated that in fact, discrimination based on gender still occurs in all aspects of life despite progress in gender equality now. Moreover, based on the Gender Gap Report of The Asean Post 2021, Indonesia is ranked fifth in the context of gender based inequality in Southeast Asia. In this case, various factors support the existence of gender inequality, one of which is gender double standard.

Double standard itself is a condition when we give a different assessment, reaction, behaviour, or attitudes to a certain group in a similar case when compared with another group. This gender double standard can be regarded as an “unwritten rule” that may harm various parties because it can limit a person’s freedom. Furthermore, the patriarchal culture and normalisation of the double standard phenomenon in society encourage the happening of “The Shadow Pandemic” and gender inequality.

Therefore, SCORA CIMSA FK Unpad held CONTRARY (Cease Socially Constructed Double Standard and Shout Out to Gender Equality) as its activity on eradicating gender double standard. CONTRARY is held on the 20th of July until 14th of August 2022 which consists of a series of events including volunteering, social experiment and talk show. The events held have the goal of increasing knowledge and awareness of gender inequality issues, especially on socially constructed gender double standard issues.

On 28th of July, open recruitment for CONTRARY’s volunteering event was started and had successfully involved 100+ volunteers nationwide. Volunteers were gathered first at a welcoming party that was held on the 3rd of August followed by a series of tasks of posting twibbon and infographics. Afterwards, on 8th August, a talk show about gender double standard issues in Indonesia was held. In this talk show, CONTRARY had successfully managed to invite one of Angsamerah Clinic’s counselor, dr. Asti Widihastuti.

Aside from talk show and volunteering activities, on the same day as volunteering’s open recruitment, CONTRARY also held a social experiment called “Ruang Aman” to accommodate Indonesia citizens on their experience and opinions regarding gender double standard. This social experiment was conducted on padlet and was filled with 30+ anonymous respondents who shared their views or personal experience regarding the issue. These filled padlets were then selected to be read and commented on by CONTRARY committees and were shot to make a social experiment video. The video was presented and uploaded on 11th of August in CIMSA FK Unpad’s Instagram account and the volunteers were tasked to make a commentary video about the social experiment and present it in their own Instagram accounts.

All in all, we hope that CONTRARY can be one of the events in Indonesia where the citizens, especially for the youngsters, can increase their awareness and knowledge regarding gender double standard that has been occuring in this country. Hopefully, with the acknowledgement of this issue, Indonesian youngsters are able to eradicate gender double standards and fight for gender inequality together.

SCORA
Standing Committee on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights including HIV&AIDS

CIMSA
Empowering Medical Students
Improving Nation's Health