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The 2019 annual report of the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) launched recently revealed that 406,178 cases of violence against women were reported throughout the year, up 14 percent from 348,466 cases reported in the previous year.
Around this time a year ago the nation heard the name Agni for the first time. Her story made headlines for months after Balairung, Gadjah Mada University’s (UGM) student magazine, published an investigative report about sexual assault experienced by Agni, the pseudonym of a UGM student who was sexually assaulted by a fellow student during a community service program in 2017.
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