"Women Aren’t Property": Activists Demand Protection from Sexual Violence

... Women's Day on Monday, demanding that the government enact sexual violence ... posters with slogans criticizing violence, rape culture and ... the law against sexual violence during an International Women's ... messages from opposition against child marriage and ...

EU Provides $2m to Help Wahana Visi Indonesia Reduce Covid-19 Impact on Children

... close exposure to domestic violence increases their anxiety and ... vulnerable groups, including children, women, elderly and disabled people, ... up health workers' preparedness against Covid-19 by providing ... Indonesia in the fight against Covid-19. Along with ...

Indonesia's 'Soft Approach' against Terrorism Vetoed by US, So What's Next?

... in providing security and defense against non-traditional school that ... or FTFs involve children and women. Thus, this non-traditional ... the cycle of revenge and violence that generally occurs in ... foundation in promoting PRR against FTF at the international ...

UN Security Council Adopts Resolution on Female Peacekeeping Force 

... for women in peacekeeping operations and to address threats and violence against them ... capacity building programs for uniformed women personnel. It further encourages member ... peacekeepers. Indonesia currently deploys 158 women to seven UN peacekeeping missions ...

Gender-Inclusive Monitoring Helps Ensure Women's Issues Are Not Ignored in Regional Election

... regions with high rates of violence against women, women's trafficking and child marriages ... with a track record of violence against women should not be allowed to ... Java had more incidence of violence against women than any other province in ...

Witness Protection Program Continues Despite Pandemic

... Center for the Empowerment of Women and Children (P2TP2A) and other ... sexual abuse cases, 40 in violence cases and 44 in other ... laundering, drug crimes, sexual abuse against women and children and torture.

How Social Restrictions Can Trigger Domestic Violence

... the violence was not committed just by men against women and children. Women can ... survey, 32 of them involved violence against children. Dian said the government ... policy might also trigger more violence against children. "It adds to the ...

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

... of violence against women to a total of 406,178 cases. "Violence against women is ... (YLBHI) director Asfinawati said violence against women is a very complex issue ... also pointed out that violence against women leads to violence against human rights, often in ...

Indonesia Seeks to Slash Child Marriage Rate to 8.7 Pct

... of the National Commission for Women, said the compulsory education ... or Bappenas, and the Women Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry ... to build an environment against child marriage by changing ... girl at risks of domestic violence and one-sided divorce ...

Victims' Families Heap Pressure on Komnas HAM to Solve Human Rights Cases

... Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), submitted three demands to ... Indonesia. Thousands of Chinese-Indonesian women were raped and murdered during ... effort has become a race against time since some of the ...