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View all search resultsThe Religious Affairs Ministry claimed to having issued several regulations to prevent sexual violence cases from taking place in Islamic boarding schools as part of improvements to preventing such abuses from taking place.
Historian 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.
Deputy Tourism Minister Ni Luh Puspa has urged Bali authorities to devise rules requiring people visiting the island to use local tour guides, following two recent reports of sexual violence against tourists in the past few weeks.
Komnas Pereumpuan's 2023 report has found an increasing trend in reported incidents of sexual violence, which it attributed primarily to the 2022 Sexual Violence Law, but it also acknowledged the data was limited to reported cases.
As reported incidents of violence against women in the country rise yearly, activists are pushing for a justice system that properly considers victim’s rights, as thousands of gender-based violence cases sit stalled in the investigation stage.
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