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Islands in focus: Thousands of Central Java women harmed

The Central Java Legal Resources Center for Gender Equality and Human Rights (LRC-KJHAM) has recorded that 1,083 women in Central Java have become victims of violence over the past six months

The Jakarta Post
Semarang
Thu, August 20, 2015

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Islands in focus: Thousands of Central Java women harmed

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he Central Java Legal Resources Center for Gender Equality and Human Rights (LRC-KJHAM) has recorded that 1,083 women in Central Java have become victims of violence over the past six months.

'€œOf that number, as many as 16 have died,'€ LRC-KJHAM information and documentation division head Witi Muntari in Semarang was quoted by tempo.co as saying on Wednesday.

Witi added that of the dead victims, nine were migrant workers and one was a sex worker. Four died in domestic violence, one of rape and one was killed during courting. The data was from a study conducted by LRC-KJHAM from November 2014 to June 2015.

According to Witi, the perpetrators were predominately adults (282), or 47.5 percent of the total of 593 people. Most of the violence was committed by men closely related to the victims, such as fathers, stepfathers, neighbors and uncles.

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