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Victims, musicians use social media to highlight sexual harassment at concerts
With the growth of the #metoo movement, more victims of sexual harassment at music concerts have come forward to share their experience.
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Illustration of a music concert. (Shutterstock/Roman Voloshyn)
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oncerts give music fans to come together and enjoy the performances with friends or family. However, these events, with large crowds pressed together, are also becoming known for incidents of sexual harassment.
With the growth of the #metoo movement, more victims of sexual harassment at music concerts have come forward to share their experience, including 22-year-old Fattwa Pujanggawati. She took to Twitter to share her story of sexually being abused during a performance of rock band .Feast in Bekasi, West Java, on Saturday.
Pertama kalinya ibadah nonton @listentofeast paling depan, malah dilecehin cowo :) ampe nangis😭😭
— meong🐈 (@Pujanggavati) October 19, 2019
As the story went viral, fellow concert-goers and music enthusiasts shared their own experiences with The Jakarta Post.
Gaby Swastika, 30, a music enthusiast living in East Java's Surabaya, recalled an incident at a concert 10 years ago when she was still a student in Yogyakarta.
“I was with my younger cousin, also a girl, watching The Changcuters’ show at a school. We were standing in the front row when the crowd began dancing wildly and I was separated from my cousin. Afterward, I felt someone touching me twice,” she said over text message on Monday.
“I was shocked. I looked for my cousin in the crowd and then we left. Afterward, she told me that she was also groped.
