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Ms.
Lily Zakiyah Munir is founder and director of Center for
Pesantren (Islamic Boarding School) and Democracy Studies
or CEPDES, an NGO dedicated to promoting democracy and human
rights education amongst Muslim grassroots communities in
Indonesia. She is national board member of Muslimat Nahdlatul
Ulama (MNU), the women’s wing of NU, a mass-based
organization with membership of about 40 million Indonesians.
She is also a researcher focusing on the issues of Islam,
politics and gender. Her academic background includes training
as medical anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam,
management at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, III.,
research fellow On Islam and Human Rights at Emory University
Faculty of Law in Atlanta and visiting fellow at the Institute
of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. She was a consultant
with UNDP on Gender Mainstreaming Program with Ministry
of Women’s Empowerment in Indonesia. Through Muslimat
NU and CEPDES she has been involved in civic and political
education for Muslim women in Indonesia in the elections
of 1999 and 2004. She has written numerous articles on her
focused areas for publication and for presentation in conferences
worldwide. |
