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Comment: Women-only train service

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The Jakarta Post
Sat, September 4, 2010

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Comment: Women-only train service

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em>Aug. 28, p. 6: Mainly female commuters warmly welcomed Indonesia’s women-only train service, launched on Aug. 19, 2010 in Jakarta by the Indonesian state-run railway company, PT Kereta Api. The service has been introduced as an attempt to prevent sexual  harassment on public transport after a series of complaints of sexual harassment and assault from women who travel on Jakarta’s trains and buses.  Ten series of the carriages of which each series consists of eight railway coaches were launched. Two coaches (the first and eighth coaches) are provided exclusively for women in each commuter train for the Jakarta-Bogor route, with pink-cushioned seats as well as female security officers and conductresses assigned on board.  (By Lynda K. Wardhani, Jakarta)


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The fact that this woman is a PhD candidate at the ANU may explain why she uses such a jargon as “gender mainstreaming” to justify her views. However, but her picture in the Post shows clearly that what she is after is not to protect women, but to separate them from men to be in line with I don’t know which saying of the prophet.
As far as I know, when this is done, as in Arab countries and Afghanistan, the behavior of men becomes better for it. Let us not hide this attempt to Islamize social behavior in the name of “gender mainstreaming”. What a strange ideological manipulation
Jean Yves
Denpasar, Bali

Instead of taking action against those who assault women, they are now segregated.
So the next time a woman gets harassed, will she be told it is her own fault because she didn’t take the “women-only” train?
Maria van der Horst
The Netherlands

I think you need to see the wider picture. Maybe this can improve passenger comfort, or perhaps prevent theft on the train.
Please, do not think of it as a negative thing, and associated with a particular religion.
Robert
Jakarta

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