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Experts urge authorities to protect victims of recent leaked sex video
Whether the singer was in the sex video or not, anybody in the video was a victim if they did not make the video for public consumption, Maidina Rahmawati from the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) insisted.
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With a suspected leaked celebrity sex tape spreading on the internet, legal experts have called on authorities to handle such cases carefully to protect the victims and properly identify the culpable parties. (Shutterstock/File)
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ith a suspected leaked celebrity sex tape spreading on the internet, legal experts have called on authorities to handle such cases carefully to protect the victims and properly identify the culpable parties.
In previous such incidents the legal authorities have prosecuted the people shown in the leaked sex videos for indecency but some legal analysts have stressed that the people who are in the videos are actually the victims, not the perpetrators, especially if the videos were made as personal files.
In a recent case, at least two lawyers have reported several social media account users to the Jakarta Police for allegedly spreading an uncensored 19-second video, purportedly of a popular Indonesian singer.
One of the lawyers, Pitra Romadoni, urged the police to question the singer to determine whether she really was the person in the video. He said, however, as quoted by tribunnews.com, that whoever is in the video, whether it is the singer or not, they should not store such material even if it is for personal use because “in the event of negligence” it could be leaked and undermine public morality, especially among young people.
Other legal experts have a different perspective.
Whether the singer was in the sex video or not, anybody in the video was a victim if they did not make the video for public consumption, Maidina Rahmawati from the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) insisted.
She lamented the fact that in the Indonesian legal framework, context was often missing in the policies on such issues, including the perspective of the right to privacy, providing a gap that leads to the criminalization of victims.
