Kepemimpinan Sintua Perempuan di Gereja Kristen Protestan Simalungun (GKPS) (Studi Kasus di Gereja Kristen Protestan Simalungun Padang Bulan Medan)

Abstract

Women's leadership has become a real phenomenon in public life and has become one of the hottest topics discussed in the framework of the struggle for gender equality and the rise of women. The openness of today's church to women's involvement in ministry opens up opportunities for women to appear in the public sphere, especially leadership in the church. This study aims to examine the leadership of female sintua in the Simalungun Protestant Christian Church (GKPS) by taking a case study in the GKPS Padang Bulan congregation, Medan. In this study, the study of women's sintua leadership style and obstacles in the practice of female sintua leadership became the main study. This research was conducted using descriptive qualitative methods, with data collection techniques using interviews, observation, and documentation. Data analysis techniques used in this study are data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. The results of this study show that women's sintua leadership style tends to lead to feminine leadership style and transformational leadership style. The leadership style of female sintua is in accordance with the concept of leadership in the church which emphasizes service. This research also shows how the problem of time distribution for the implementation of domestic duties inherent in the role of wife and motherhood in a woman is the most obvious obstacle felt directly by female sintua when they want to enter and play a role in public spheres such as leadership in the church. This is one clear example of one of the manifestations of gender injustice experienced by women, namely the double burden.