Gender and Patriarchy Issues in Women's Village Leadership and Women's Village Apparatus Domination in Plantation Community of North Sumatra

摘要

This research seeks to find the phenomenon of increasingly widespread female leaders in government, politics and business/private field. We recognize that there are stereotypes that put women as the second-class citizens or in the domestic sector which are affected by patriarchal values that are still developing in Indonesia. This is due to the differences in parenting patterns from earlier age that cause women lack of skills and courage in leadership. There are interesting things in the phenomenon of women's leadership in Karang Baru Village, Talawi Sub-district, Batubara Regency, where the Head of Village and all the village apparatus are dominated by women. The formulation of the problem in this research will reveal the reasons for being a leader and selecting village apparatus under her leadership who are also women. How does the femininity turns out as a leadership power. Another interesting point is that the oil palm plantation area in North Sumatra adds to the sociological complexity of the women's leadership issue, especially in Karang Baru village where most of the villagers work in oil palm plantations. This research uses qualitative method and collects data by doing an in-depth interviews. In-depth interviews were conducted with the female villages head and her female officers. The results of the study finds that female leader undertook feminine and transformational leadership styles. Stereotype femininity called as fussy, meticulous and can perform various jobs (multi-tasking) is somehow the strength for the leader in running the village government. It can be seen from the two periods of the female leader' leadership, the continuous support from the female voters and also the male villagers as a whole.