ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to analyse configurations of men and mas-
culinity in modern Indonesian culture and media, primarily focusing on recent cinema. Although there is a substantial body of scholarship on the
role of hegemonic constructions of gender in post-colonial Indonesia (Sears
1996; Blackburn 2004; Suryakusuma 2004), no rigorous assessment has
been made of representations of men, men’s practices or masculinity in
Indonesian culture, including Indonesian cinema, where male film-makers
and male protagonists are dominant and influential.
