Dismantling epistemic injustice: the journey of Indonesian Women Ulama Congress (KUPI) from the feminist standpoint perspective

This study examines the form of epistemic injustice in Islamic knowledge production, which is reflected in the journey of the Indonesian Women Ulama Congress (KUPI), through a feminist standpoint perspective. Women ulama often experience epistemic injustice because the system of Islamic knowledge production in Indonesia tends to delegitimate the capability of women ulama to produce knowledge, which indicates the practice of gender-based marginalization. By studying the standpoint of women ulama in KUPI, this research investigates how epistemic injustice manifests through KUPI’s journey and how KUPI challenges that through the agency of women ulama. The qualitative analysis in this research explores KUPI’s framing of gender-related issues and women ulama's experience, as well as their interrelation with the knowledge production in KUPI, as an antithesis to the dominant system of Islamic knowledge production. This research also explores KUPI’s work on the female genital mutilation (FGM) issue and the anti-sexual violence bill as the manifestation of their efforts to dismantle epistemic injustice in the Islamic system. The findings contribute to critical discussions on epistemic injustice within Islamic and feminist standpoint discourses, underscoring the importance of women ulama's voices and gender-awareness in the Islamic knowledge production process in Indonesia.