Just weeks after Baiq Nuril Maknun was granted amnesty on July 29 to end her five-year battle against her boss and alleged sexual harasser in a defamation case, another woman may be facing years of legal proceedings in a nearly identical case.
ot long after the public praised the government for granting Baiq Nuril Maknun amnesty after years of fighting for her rights as a victim of alleged sexual harassment, another woman is enduring a similar experience.
RA is battling a sexual harassment case against her former boss at the Workers Social Security Agency (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) as she battles the depression she has suffered ever since the case became public.
RA alleges that she was sexually harassed on at least four separate occasions from April 2016 to November 2018, when she was the expert assistant to Syafri Adnan Baharuddin, the secretary of the BPJS Ketenagakerjaan supervisory board. Syafri has since resigned from his position in response to the allegations against him.
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RA and her lawyers sought the assistance of the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) after she was informed that the National Police had recently decided to drop its investigation into her case, claiming a lack of sufficient evidence.
Komnas Perempuan and RA's legal counsel, lawyers Popy Meilani Erwanti and Sri Suparyati from the Lokataru Legal and Human Rights Foundation, met on Monday and issued a call for the police to resume its investigation and all attendant legal proceedings. They also urged the police to drop Syafri's defamation case against RA.
Syafri reported RA for alleged defamation to the National Police’s criminal investigation unit (Bareskrim) under the Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law – the same law that Baiq Nuril's alleged sexual harasser used to bring a defamation case against her.
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