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he University of Indonesia (UI) has clarified and rebuffed criticism against the consensual sex subject taught in this year’s freshman orientation program (PKKMB UI), saying it was taught under the context of sexual harassment and not to promote casual sex.
“What has been circulating around was a single slide titled sexual consent and it has been linked to other concepts of sexual activities. [...] In fact, the subject given was about sexual violence and the purpose is to build awareness among students so that they can avoid and prevent sexual violence from happening,” UI’s secretary, Agustin Kusumayati, said during a virtual media briefing on Wednesday.
She argued that the subject part of the university’s response to rampant sexual abuse cases within the campus.
She regretted that critics had disregarded the fact that the presentations consisted of several slides interconnected with each other and that each slide was further explained through verbal narration.
The video presentation titled “E-Class: Preventing Sexual Violence” was uploaded through the UI student affairs directorate’s official YouTube channel as part of PKKMB UI, which ran from Sept. 7 to 11.
The e-class presentation slides – narrated by Diana Teresa Pakasi from UI’s Gender and Sexuality Studies – explained that a sexual act was considered an act of violence if consent was not given by all parties involved.
One presentation slide explained that pressuring someone into sexual activity by using fear or intimidation would fall under sexual violence, the narrator explained.
