#sexual assaults

Collection of sexual assaults news, found 27 news.

State budget supports gender-based budgeting since 2000: Minister

Indonesia's state budget (APBN) has supported gender-based budgeting through the Gender Responsive Budgeting ...

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 ...

Protection for female sexual assault victims still minimal: Women`s commission

Commissioner of the National Commission on Violence Against Women Irawati Harsono believes that female victims of ...

Minister Parawansa declares street-children free Indonesia by 2017

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa declared a street-chilren free Indonesia by 2017 at the National ...

Indonesian govt to realize Indonesian children`s voices: Minister

Womens Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Yohana Yambise has said her ministry will realize the Voices of ...

Politicians, activists laud new govt regulation on child protection

Politicians and child protection activists have lauded the issuance of Government Regulation No. 1 of 2016, which is ...

Rapists-cum-murderers deserve harsh punishment

More and more horrific and brutal rape-cum-murders have been reported across the country lately even as the public and ...

Pornography claimed to be strongest causal factor in sexual assaults

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa has identified pornography as the most dominant causal factor in ...

Indonesia in state of emergency following rampant sexual crimes: Lawmaker

Indonesia is in a state of emergency following a spurt in sexual crimes, according to Reni Marlinawati, a member of ...

Gang rape case renews demand for gelding punishment

The recent horrific case of gang rape and death of a 14-year old, YY, by 14 teenagers in the Rejanglebong District, ...

House urged to expedite debate of bill on sexual violence

The Peoples Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Zulkifli Hasan urged the House of Representatives (DPR) to accelerate ...

New Year assaults `in 12 German states: report

German police have found that the wave of sexual assaults and robberies on New Year's eve did not only happen in ...

Child protection commission appreciates court verdicts on JIS case

An Indonesian court recently found a Canadian educator and an Indonesian teaching assistant at Jakarta International ...

Police make progress in probe over JIS sexual assault case

The Jakarta Police decision to finally detain two staffers of the Jakarta International School (JIS) in connection ...

Police should ignore foreign embassies` protest: IPW

Presidium Chairman of the Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) Neta S Pane has asked police to work professionally in handling ...