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View all search resultsIndonesia ranked 104 out of 160 countries on the United Nations Development Program’s 2017 Gender Inequality Index, which measures gender disparities in education, reproductive health and economic and political participation. Indonesia’s ranking has changed little in recent years and is below that of most of its Asian neighbors.
At the Cabinet’s inauguration Jokowi said Bintang was responsible for “strengthening the role of women in entrepreneurship, eliminating child labor and overcoming violence against women and children.”
As physical and sexual violence dominated the report, what is equally important but often unseen and forgotten is emotional and mental abuse in intimate relationships, leaving it untreated or often being ignored or undermined. However, the impacts on the victim are equally serious, even worse than scars or bruises.
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