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View all search resultsHistorian and activist Ita Fatia Nadia revealed that she has received anonymous threats after protesting Culture Minister Fadli Zon’s controversial remarks about the mass rape of Chinese-Indonesian women during the May 1998 riots, which preceded the fall of Soeharto and his authoritarian regime.
Culture Minister Fadli Zon has defended his denial of mass rape during the May 1998 riots from a recent interview. But it was met with more outrage from historians and activists who deemed it a government attempt to sanitize Indonesia’s violent past amid the ministry’s controversial project to rewrite history.
Culture Minister Fadli Zon’s denial of mass rape during the May 1998 riots has triggered a wave of condemnation, with rights groups warning that it reflects a growing effort to sanitize Indonesia’s violent past and erase the long-ignored suffering of Chinese-Indonesian women during one of the nation’s darkest chapters.
“A citizen went to the police to report a sexual assault, but instead of being protected, she was victimized a second time by the very people meant to protect her,” Sarifuddin said on Tuesday, as quoted by Kompas.
The Health Ministry has said that the suspension of an anesthesiology residency program at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital following a rape case will not undermine education for doctors or healthcare services at the Bandung-based hospital in West Java.
The Health Ministry has instructed the Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java to suspend its residency program for anesthesiologists following the arrest of a resident doctor who allegedly raped a patient in March.
Prosecutors have said Dominique Pelicot offered sex with his wife on a website and filmed the abuse. In addition to Dominique Pelicot, 50 other men accused of rape are also on trial in the southern city of Avignon.
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