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In commemoration to welcome International Women's Day, Indonesia Business Coalition for Women Empowerment (IBWCE) held Fun run event on Saturday, March 4 entitled 'HeForShe Run'. This sports event is also supported by United Nations (UN) Women. In addition to welcome the International Women's Day, this fun run is held to support gender equality where women have the same position as men. Indonesia Business Coalition for Women Empowerment -IBCWE President Shinta Widjaja in a press conference in Jakarta on Tuesday, (27/2) said that community participation is importatnt to support gender equality echoed by the UN Women through the HeForShe campaign.

 

*In principle, this is a fun run, a campaign to get together . Those who cannot run to 5K or 10K, do not worry you do not have to run, you can just walk. But the participation of parties is important. There are 5,000 participants who have been registered. Therefore, we can do the campaign together, and raise the issue of HeforShe," Sinta Witjaksono said. 

 

Shinta Widjaja moreover said that gender equality will be achieved, if women and men have the willingness and cooperation to realize the equality of the HeForShe Campaign, initiated by UN Women. HeforShe is a solidarity movement that invites men and boys as equal partners. They also become an agent of change to accelerate the achievement of gender equality// (Rezha)