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Indonesia

Women's Solidarity for Humanity and Human Rights (SPEK-HAM)

Address

Women's Solidarity for Humanity and Human Rights
Perum Dosen UNS 107 Baturan Solo 57171
Jawa Tengah - Indonesia

Contact Information

If calling from Indonesia:

Tel: 0271 715012
Fax: 0271 715012

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +62 271 715012
Fax: +62 271 715012

Website

http://spek-ham.org/

Email

spek-ham@indo.net.id

Activities

SPEK-HAM is involved in Violence Against Women case assistance, policy advocacy and awareness raising activities. On human trafficking, SPEK-HAM is collaborating with a network of organizations in Indonesia (TKW), raising awareness on Domestic Workers sent abroad to become housemaids. In Indonesia, the topic is only beginning to be mentioned.

In Malaysia, Human Rights Watch estimates that 90% of domestic workers are Indonesian women, and many are illegally working as housemaids. In other regions in Asia, Singapore, Honk Kong, for example, the numbers are also very high. Moreover, they have few, if any, rights. They are often not allowed to have contact with family, to receive their paychecks and or have any vacations. In Central Java this is a big concern since many villages in the area of SPEK-HAM are targeted. Girls and young women are hired by agencies to work in other countries, as far as Saudi Arabia.

SPEK-HAM’s goal is to modernize long-established social beliefs in order to develop a framework to push social changes in the system, in order to implement elementary rights for woman’s groups, and eliminate the growth of structural poverty.

Mandate:

Provide alternative education to reinforce woman groups and protect elementary rights required on an ongoing basis.

Vision:

SPEK-HAM will become an organization playing a part in the empowerment of social movements in the society by developing woman groups able to manage their resources and protect their fundamental needs, then influence local policies to guarantee long term implementation of elementary rights related to protection and social security.

Mission:

Develop essential education models in the society, especially to woman's groups, to raise critical awareness in the economic, health, education and participation fields.
Organize social organizations, especially women's groups, to strengthen social movements able to improve the social system in the fields of economics, health, education and participation.
Improve organizational capacities of grassroots woman groups in management and resource mobilization to its base requirement accomplishment that is economics, health, education and participation
Conduct and develop advocacy strategies to give and protect and service women groups in society.

For the past few years, SPEK-HAM has been implementing trainings like:
Organizational Management and Leadership Training, Social Analysis Training (to help women understand today's issues), Gender Budgeting Training, Woman and Politics Training, with donors like CIDA, USAID, the Finland Embassy and the Uniting Church of Netherlands (UPCN).