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Authorities in West Sumatra are investigating a video in which a woman was stripped and paraded by a mob in Pasaman regency this week.
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West Sumatra mob strips woman and parades her in public as punishment for ‘obscene act’
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Coconuts Jakarta Sep 4, 2020 | 11:20am Jakarta time
Indonesian woman stripped to her bare chest and paraded on the streets of a village as punishment for getting intimate with a man. Photo: Video screengrab
Authorities in West Sumatra are investigating a video in which a woman was stripped and paraded by a mob in Pasaman regency this week.
Based on the widely circulating video, the woman was stripped to her bare chest and made to perform a walk of shame in front of a thrilled mob, which consisted of several children. As she was being paraded on the village streets, she tried to pull up her pants to cover up her breasts, but one man from the mob pulled them back down at one point.
According to reports, the woman was given a social punishment by villagers after she was caught getting intimate with a man, presumably out of wedlock. She had been caught with the man twice before.
West Sumatra Police said the incident occurred on Aug. 30.
“The woman in the video was busted by residents for committing an obscene act,” West Sumatra Police spokesman Stefanus Satake Bayu Setianto
said.
Stefanus added that the video has been taken down from Youtube but may still be spreading through chat groups. He said the police are now investigating who filmed the video and may charge them with violations of the Information and Electronic Transactions Act (UU ITE).
The Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) condemned the public shaming and called on members of the mob to be criminally charged as well.
“The people who paraded her should be charged with performing an immoral act in public under the Criminal Code,” Komnas Perempuan commissioner Siti Aminah
said today.
Moral vigilantes who publicly shame those they accuse of adultery, premarital sex, or other “immoral acts” (even if such acts were carried out with consent) in Indonesia often go unpunished. One notable exception to the rule was a case in 2018 in which a village chief and his accomplices were
sentenced to lengthy prison terms for stripping and shaming a young couple who were wrongly accused of getting intimate out of wedlock.
you lot dont seem to be respecting your own women
Activist groups are springing up, and the first step, they say, is exposing the routine instances of groping and catcalling that have long gone unreported.
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In Indonesia, Women Begin to Fight ‘Epidemic’ of Street Harassment
Tunggal Pawestri, who was sexually harassed on a public bus at age 14, is working for a women’s organization.Credit...Kemal Jufri for The New York Times
By
Joe Cochrane
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Tunggal Pawestri says she’ll never forget being groped on a public bus while traveling to her high school in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, when she was 14.
While Ms. Tunggal had become used to enduring daily harassment on her way to and from classes — mostly catcalls and sexually suggestive looks and comments — when a man suddenly began gyrating against her from behind, she said, “I froze.”
“I didn’t know what to do — I didn’t even know that I should have screamed,” said Ms. Tunggal, who now works for a women’s organization.
Two decades after that disturbing episode, a growing number of activist groups and volunteers like Ms. Tunggal are emerging to explain exactly what to do: expose the longstanding problem of harassment on roads, sidewalks, trains and buses across
Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous nation.
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It’s an epidemic, and, unfortunately, at the moment, Indonesia has no legal protection for sexual harassment,” said Yuniyanti Chuzaifah, vice chairwoman of the National Commission on Violence Against Women, who said she was once groped after falling asleep on a public bus.
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Ms. Pawestri checking the Hollaback app for reporting street harassment.Credit...Kemal Jufri for The New York Times
“Women have to be brave to report it, and the police services here are not friendly toward victims,” she said. “There’s a lot of victim-blaming, like it is their own fault.”
According to the women’s commission, only 268 street harassment reports were filed last year with the police, nongovernmental organizations or the commission itself across a nation of more than 260 million people.
By comparison, more than 200 women in the Jakarta region alone posted accounts in the past 12 months, both under their name and anonymously, of harassment or groping on the streets or on public transportation to the Indonesia website of
Hollaback, an international initiative against street harassment.
“I feel street harassment has been normalized within our society,” said Anindya Restuviani, coordinator of Feminist Festival Indonesia, which organizes events on women’s issues, including harassment.
Activists in Indonesia estimate that millions of street harassment incidents go unreported each year.
“We are sure this is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Angie Kilbane, an American high school teacher in Jakarta and leader of Hollaback’s Jakarta chapter, referring to the hundreds of posts on the site.
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A women-only train car in Jakarta. The cars were introduced in 2010 to curb groping.Credit...Kemal Jufri for The New York Times
The Indonesian National Police did not reply to multiple requests for official data on street harassment cases. To discourage sex abuse in public places, the authorities have set aside women-only cars on packed commuter trains and spaces designated for females on public buses, but activists say much more needs to be done — by the government and society.
Ms. Kilbane, who has lived in Indonesia for nearly 10 years, said she got involved in combating harassment after a motorcyclist drove up beside her while she was bicycling, grabbed her right breast and said, “Hey, baby,” in Indonesian before roaring off.
Ms. Kilbane’s chapter organizes discussions and workshops on sexual harassment, and conducts training in self-defense and bystander intervention. Still, she said, “I don’t ride my bike to work anymore.”
A 19-year-old student at the University of Indonesia, who asked not to be named because she feared publicly confronting her attacker, had anonymously posted two stories of harassment on the Hollaback Jakarta website, one about being molested twice by a close family friend while she was in elementary school, and the other about recent catcalling on the street.
Though she said she wanted to share her stories with the group, she has never told her parents what happened and has yet to warn her younger sister, 14, about the problem. She said that the issue was considered taboo in Indonesia and she did not have the courage to tell them.
In 2014, Kate Walton, an Australian activist and writer based in Jakarta, started an online discussion group after experiencing near-daily street harassment. She also has been groped.
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Anindya Restuviani, who organizes events on women’s issues, said street harassment has been “normalized.”Credit...Kemal Jufri for The New York Times
In January, she conducted an experiment to gauge the scale of the problem by walking from her home in South Jakarta to a shopping mall about two and a half miles away. She was harassed 13 times in 35 minutes, and posted a tweet about each incident as it happened.
Ms. Walton’s discussion group has more than 2,000 Indonesian and expatriate members, and stories of street harassment are a regular topic of conversation.
“The more stories people see, the more brave and willing they are to come forward,” she said, expressing frustration at what women in Indonesia endure in public spaces. “It just adds up when it happens every day. It’s tiring.”
A 2014 report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation found that Jakarta had the fifth-most dangerous public transportation system for women in the world, and the second-worst in Asia behind New Delhi.
Wulan Danoekoesoemo, a clinical psychologist and co-founder of Lentera Sintas Indonesia, which counsels sexual violence victims, said the country’s street harassment problem stemmed from its patriarchal society, in which men traditionally hold authority over women.
Adolescent boys, activists said, harass women on Indonesian streets nearly as frequently as men.
“People look up to their peers who catcall or talk inappropriately to women, and it goes without consequences,” said Ms. Wulan, whose organization has countered by conducting an education campaign at 78 schools in Jakarta, hoping to change the next generation.
“It’s something so common. And for boys it’s one way to prove you are macho and that you are good at pickup lines, which of course they are not,” she said.
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