This study investigates how Indonesian women's bodies function as both centres of power and resistance using a poststructuralist feminist framework informed by Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity and Donna Haraway's cyborg metaphor. In a context shaped by moral surveillance, religious norms, state control, and capitalist pressures, women's bodies are regulated and simultaneously rearticulated through activism. Through labour protests and digital body politics, women subvert dominant norms and reclaim their bodies as political tools. The body is conceptualised as an active site of discursive and visual intervention. This study argues that women's activism need not be confrontational to have political potential. By reading the body as a performative practice, this study contributes to feminist and body studies, offering a situational analysis that challenges the privatised view of women and advances understanding of bodily embodied resistance in contemporary Indonesia.
Suryanti et al. (Wed,) studied this question.