ICAN’s Mission Five Steps for Sustainable Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict ICAN Partner AWAPSA: A Catalyst for Kenya’s First SGBV Court The War Against Ourselves: Afghan Women Peacebuilders’ Response to the Mental Health Crisis in Afghanistan Protecting Women Peacebuilders: The Front Lines of Sustainable Peace
Country - Indonesia
About the Organization
Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) is an organization based in Indonesia that works to create a religious culture that is non-violent and that promotes gender equality. AMAN works towards these objectives through peace education for grassroots women, community organizing with women’s groups, and national and international advocacy related to the Women, Peace, and Security agenda.
The organization works to facilitate progressive Islamic discourse and to connect organizations on women’s issues and peacebuilding from an Islamic perspective; to facilitate capacity building for communities and organizations and promote women’s leadership for peace; and to address gender-based violence and conflict over religion and natural resources through advocacy.
Core Areas of Work:
- Peacemaking
- CRSV and GBV
- Gender Equality and Religion
Stories & Features
Representatives from ICAN and the WASL network attended the International Conference on Women, Peace, and Security (ICWPS) in Manila from October 28-30, 2024.
The 2nd Indonesian Women’s Ulama Congress or Kongres Ulama Perempuan Indonesia (KUPI) will be held in Semarang and Jepara, Central Java, Indonesia from November 23 – 26, 2022, co-organized by the Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN Indonesia), a member of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL).
ICAN, with the support of Global Affairs Canada, has developed a set of “Case Studies on the Role of Gender and Identity in Shaping Positive Alternatives to Extremisms,” in Cameroon, Indonesia, Jordan, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Sweden, and the United States. The case studies demonstrate how conducting a Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) improves understanding of the drivers, narratives and roles that engender extremisms and violent extremist activity. By profiling examples of peacebuilding, deradicalization, reintegration and counternarrative work in these contexts, the case studies emphasize how attention to gender and intersectional identities can improve the effectiveness of interventions to transform extremisms – not only by preventing or countering it, but by providing positive alternatives that enable people to realize a peaceful, pluralistic future.
The She Builds Peace campaign was launched in Indonesia in March 2020 by the Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN).
The Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) issued a statement about the attacks in Sri Lanka.

If you engage all women’s groups, they’ll show you the correct path. They understand the communities. When governments engage women, it will also open lots of doors to engage marginalized groups.
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