Female Circumcision Harms Many But Does Not Have A Legal Umbrella, KPPPA Invites Religious Figures To Compile A Prevention Roadmap

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (KPPPA) invites all parties to prepare an action plan to prevent female genital mutilation/cutting/FGM/C.

"The preparation of the roadmap and action plan is a continuation of our plans and efforts since 2003," said Acting Assistant Deputy for Increasing Participation of Religious and Community Organizations at the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Prijadi Santoso in a press release, Antara, Tuesday, December 7.

In the roadmap, the ministry invites religious leaders to work together to prevent female genital mutilation through the preparation of a roadmap and action plan for the prevention of injury and cutting of female genitalia (P2GP) 2020-2030.

The dangers of P2GP medically are unquestionable. Some of them such as bleeding, mental health disorders, cysts and asbestos, disturbances in sex to disorders in childbirth.

Unfortunately, there is no legal umbrella that prohibits and imposes strict sanctions on perpetrators.

"In Indonesia, the demand for P2GP is still high, even from service providers who are still openly offering P2GP services," he said.

Prijadi said that this condition underlies the urgency of compiling a roadmap and action plan in an effort to prevent FGM/C.

Similarly, the Assistant Deputy for Participation of Professional and Business Institutions at the Ministry of PPPA, Eko Novi Ariyanti, added that the 2020-2030 P2GP Prevention Plan, Roadmap and Action Plan are the efforts of the PPPA Ministry to encourage the government to integrate FGM/C prevention with priorities to increase public awareness, state administrators and health workers.

"The priority in this Roadmap for Prevention of FGM/C is also so that prevention of FGM/C can appear as an indicator of the government's achievements in the RPJMN (National Medium-Term Development Plan) as a strong coordination system so that prevention can be carried out by stakeholders and can realize a good national data collection system, both nationally and internationally. as a tool for measuring the success of FGM/C prevention and determining the interventions needed at certain stages," said Novi.