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Forced Marriage Article must cover lack of consent: ICJR

The forced marriage article within the sexual violence prevention bill (RUU TPKS) must specifically include lack of ...

Bandung High Court sentences Herry Wirawan to death

The Bandung High Court handed down a death sentence to Herry Wirawan for raping his 13 female students. Chief of the ...

G20 momentum and anti-corruption institution's four priority issues

Indonesia has officially received the mandate to assume the Presidency for the Group of Twenty (G20) for a year, ...

Awaiting protection for women and children through the RUU TPKS

Sexual violence and harassment against women and children continues to occur and has seen to be significantly ...

Wirawan rape case: Court orders ministry to pay victims restitution

The Bandung District Court has ordered the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection to pay restitution ...

Bandung court sentences rapist Wirawan to life in prison

The Bandung District Court found serial rapist Herry Wirawan guilty of raping his 13 female students while he was ...

Ministry involves children in violence prevention through Child Forum

The Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry strives to prevent violence at the grassroots level by ...

Domestic violence is a toxic, continuous cycle: Komnas Perempuan

Commissioner of the National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) Maria Ulfah Anshor has ...

Search launched for two climbers in W Java's Mount Malabar

The Bandung Search and Rescue (SAR) Office has launched a search for two climbers, identified as Ace (33) and Yoga ...

Will continue to seek death penalty for Wirawan: prosecutor's office

The West Java Prosecutor's Office has said that it will continue to seek a death sentence for Herry Wirawan, who ...

Death penalty to help eradicate corruption: Official

Death penalty for corruptors is the highest manifestation of efforts to eradicate corruption in Indonesia that is akin ...

Assessing the need to sentence sexual violence perpetrators to death

The state prosecutor has demanded Herry Wirawan, a serial rapist, who abused his authority as headmaster of an Islamic ...

Rights body expects continued decline in violence by authorities

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) expects a continued decline in the rate of violence committed by ...

Ministry urges parents of sexual violence victims to file cases

Deputy for Child Protection at the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (KPPPA) Nahar has ...

Rejecting death penalty not meant to protect rapist: rights body

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said its rejection of death penalty against Herry Wirawan, an ...