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View all search resultsThe Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has called on law enforcers to protect the rights of a teen murder suspect who is also pregnant, allegedly as a result of rape, in a shocking case that has elicited both sympathy and revulsion.
Gresik Regional Legislative Council member Nur Hudi of the NasDem Party allegedly offered a house worth Rp 1 billion to the family of a 16-year-old junior high school student who was reportedly raped by one of his aides.
It seems that women’s rights and women’s lives simply don’t matter anymore in Indonesia, to the point that we have to choose between lifelong suffering, death or imprisonment in the unforeseeable event that we become victims of rape or are diagnosed with medical complications during pregnancy.
It was reported that 25-year-old Harismail, also known as Ujang, had been treated at Bhayangkara Hospital in Palembang for injuries allegedly inflicted by police officers while he was illegally detained.
When I was about 14, I had a Japanese comic book series titled Pop Corn(original title Seito Shokun! ), which was quite dear to me. The popular translated series told the story of a teenager, Kitashiro Naoko, or Nakki, and her friends. In one story, one of Nakki’s close friends, Konishi Hatsune, was raped by a stranger.
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