BULLETINS
Blakasuta is a monthly bulletin containing information about Fahmina's programs and network partners as well as features, new stories, opinion pieces and advice on topics such as democracy building, pluralism, economic empowerment, education and community issues. Blakasuta has been published since 2003 and is distributed throughout Fahmina's network as well as to local and regional government and the general public.Click here to read or download Blakasuta in Indonesian
Warkah Al-Basyar: Since 2001, Fahmina has published the Friday bulletin, Warkah al-Basyar, for mosques, prayer groups and pesantren. Warkah Al-Basyar is designed to raise collective awareness of social injustices in our community and to encourage solidarity with victims of violence or marginalisation, including women, migrant workers, street traders, fishers, farmers and minority groups. Each Friday, Warkah al-Basyar is distributed throughout the Cirebon, Indramayu, Majalengka and Kuningan districts as well as in Situbondo, East Java.
Click here to read or download Warkah Al-Basyar in Indonesian
Mashalih Ar-Ra'iyyah was a bi-monthly magazine published by Fahmina's (then) Division of Social Religious Discourse Development between 2003 and 2004. It was a product of Fahmina's Dawroh Fiqh Demokrasi program, in which local santri and pesantren leaders engaged in creative exploration and contextualisation of pesantren traditions relating to the topic of democracy and democracy-building. Six editions were published.Click here to read or download Mashalih Ar-Ra'iyyah in Indonesian
RESEARCH
Fahmina-institute has conducted research into local issues such as labour migration and human trafficking, community policing, and community access to local government budgets, among others.
Click here to read or dowload articles and reports based on this research in Indonesian.
BOOKS
DAWRAH FIQH CONCERNING WOMEN-- Manual For A Course on Islam and Gender
| Authors: | KH. Husein Muhammad, Faqihuddin Abdul Kodir, Lies Marcoes Natsir, Marzuki Wahid |
| Editor: | Umdah el-Baroroh, Dea Dahlia |
| Publisher: | Fahmina Institute, Cirebon |
| Printing: | Printing I : May 2006; Printing II : May 2007 |
| ISBN: | 979-25-9100-1 |
| Dimensions: | xviii + 300 p ; 26 c |
Summary:
This book makes available for the first time in English the training manual developed by the Fahmina Institute – an Indonesian pesantren based NGO that supports women's empowerment through Islamic teachings. This manual is targeted towards women activists who have no Islamic educational background, with a view to providing them with both theoretical and practical guidance on how to argue for gender equality within Islamic legal thought. The book also details the core elements of a rights-based Islam, which can bring about the much needed paradigm shift in Islamic law and go beyond old jurisprudential dogmas in search of new questions and new answers. It does this by historicizing and contextualizing the discriminatory rulings on women that have become part of Islamic law, showing that they are neither manifestations of divine will nor immutable, but rather that they are juristic constructs that are shaped by, reflect, and can change with time and place.
This book is a powerful training tool for all those who are struggling to give voice to an ethical and egalitarian vision of Islam, which can only be achieved by severing the Islamic ideals and the sacred texts from the patriarchal biases and rulings that have hitherto distorted them. It is only then that Muslims can be freed from taking apologetic and defensive positions.
