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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 ...

Forced marriage, sexual slavery in sexual violence bill purview

The government has included the issues of forced marriage and sexual slavery in the Sexual Violence Prevention Bill ...

Will push prompt ratification of sexual violence bill: legislator

Coordinator and deputy speaker for people's prosperity of the House of Representatives (DPR), Muhaimin Iskandar, ...

Sexual violence bill to regulate handling of digital abuse

The Indonesian government is pushing the Draft of the Sexual Violence Prevention Bill to allow for the handling of ...

NGOs urge gov't to include forced marriage in sexual violence bill

Six non-governmental organizations (NGOs) under Indonesia Joining Forces (IJF) have asked the government to include ...

Sexual violence bill can offer hope to victims of abuse

For GH, a sexual violence survivor, the trauma of further harassment after reporting the assault has been unimaginably ...

Penal Code fails to adequately protect sexual assault victims

The Penal Code (KUHP) does not yet provide adequate protection to women victims of sexual violence, Commissioner of the ...

Child marriages see three-fold rise in Indonesia in 2020

The number of child marriage dispensations tripled in Indonesia in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to the ...

Anti-sexual violence bill crucial weapon in fight against rape culture

A young girl in college had to bury her dreams of being a literature graduate as she had been raped by a famous poet ...

Hundreds march to prompt lawmakers to pass anti-rape bill

Hundreds of people comprising individuals and civil society groups marched in front of the House of Representatives ...

Child marriage rooted in gender discrimination: Malaysian representative

Permanent Representative of Malaysia to ASEAN Dato` Shariffah Norhana Syed Mustaffa said that child marriage was ...