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Papuan anthropologist wins award for study on gender issues

by lorenz on Aug 30, 2004 in Asia, gender

The Jakarta Post

A Papuan anthropologist, Marlina Flassy, has been declared the winner of the Peniti Emas community research award, capping a series of science and technology achievements by people in the remote province.

Marlina's research conducted in 2001, found changes to the value systems of the patriarchal Papuan communities, which had begun to provide women with access to education to improve their prospects for marriage.

"In the past, when a man proposed to a woman, he gave the woman only a package of kain timur (eastern cloth) as a bride price. But now, the higher the educational background the bride has, the higher she will be priced, sometimes amounting up to Rp 50 million (US$5,500)," the lecturer of the state Cendrawasih University in Jayapura said. (no longer available online)

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