Caroline J. Monteiro (Olin), is an Indonesian feminist, activist, writer, editor, non-profit publisher, women documentary producer, photographer and Head of ARTforWOMEN, an organization for feminist culture, literature and education.
She has been an activist, writer and researcher since early 1990s, and has volunteered at several women’s organizations and environment organizations. As a consultant for gender issues since 2002, assisting with speakers and gender programs, she has worked with international organizations such as UNICEF, the World Bank programs for social development, USAID, and the Ford Foundation. She has worked with several film production/documentary and fiction also since 1997.
Olin Monteiro was a founder of the Indonesian Women’s Coalition with many other women activists in 1998. The Coalition held a successful women’s congress in Yogyakarta in December 1998. Since then she has founded and support several other women organizations, including Communication for Women’s Rights, Urban Women’s Book Club and ARTsforWOMEN. In 2004 she helped the selection of 1000 Peace Women from Indonesia and Timor Leste for the Nobel Peace Prize 20015. She’s currently still the head of Peace Women Across the Globe Indonesia.
She also founded PBP publishing, a non-profit book publishing company for women writers, in 2006. PBP has published helped published more than 10 books including poetry anthologies and short story collections.
She has published 3 women documentaries with Arts for Women and PWAG Indonesia.The film “Mollo di Timor”, about women struggle against mining company in Timor island, has won a prize from Ministry of Environment in Indonesia. And the documentary “Black Umbrella”, has been selected in several international festival and won an award at the Erasmus Documentary Film Festival (Erasmus Huis Jakarta). Her new documentary Memory & Hope, about a survivor of sexual violence’s in Flores island has been selected to be screened at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival October 2015.
She is now preparing for 3 new women documentaries on women leaders in Aceh, Padang and Sumba island.