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Unsafe on the streets: Female pedestrians face flashers in Greater Jakarta
Indecent exposure has long been a problem faced by women in the capital, with some having said they were left traumatized or felt unsafe after such incidents.
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Illustration of an exhibitionist. (Shutterstock/sharpner)
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, a woman from Depok, West Java, was left shocked after a motorcyclist flashed his genitals as she closed the front gate to her home after returning from a nearby store.
“At that time, my neighborhood was very quiet, nobody else was around. I was carrying my child at that time. If I was not carrying my child, I would have screamed at him, I would have chased and hit him,” N told kompas.com on last week.
A month prior, a 21-year-old identified as CA witnessed a man conducting a similar act from his car on the sidewalk of Jl. Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta, one of the busiest roads in the capital.
The man, CA said, opened his car window and exposed himself while masturbating.
Enraged by the indecent act, CA took a video of the man and posted it on social media.
“I took the video on purpose, so that people like him could go viral and receive consequences for their actions,” she said.
The video went viral and several days later the South Jakarta Police arrested the man in his house in Bekasi, West Java. Police officers identified the man, who turned out to be an app-based ride hailing driver, by his car’s license plate captured in CA’s viral video.
