Lawmakers Urge Police to Collaborate With Government Agencies During Pandemic

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Violence Against Women in Indonesia Is Systemic and the Government Is Not Doing Enough to Unravel It: Rights Activists

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House Puts Sexual Violence Bill on Hold Until Next Term

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Where Have You Been All These Years? Justice Minister Asks Criminal Code Critics

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Here Are the Most Contentious Articles in Indonesia's New Criminal Code

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Gov't Forges Ahead With Chemical Castration of Child Sexual Offenders

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Everything You Always Wanted to Happen in the Bumi Manusia Film* (*but Were Afraid to Ask)

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Women's March in Jakarta

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International Women's Day 2019

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Where Are the Serious Young Adult Novels in Indonesia?

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