Indonesia’s new Parliament got its first female speaker of the House of Representatives when Puan Maharani, the daughter of the country’s first female president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, was sworn in on Tuesday.The 46-year-old, a member of President Joko Widodo’s cabinet, was unanimously elected in a move seen as symbolic for gender equality in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.“It has an important symbolic value. We will have to see how she handles her position in the months ahead,” said…
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