Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture: The Law On Sexual Violence Is Urgently Enacted Immediately

Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy/ANTARA PHOTOS

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy hopes that the Draft Law on the Crime of Sexual Violence (RUU TPKS) can soon be discussed and ratified because it is urgently needed.

"As for the legal umbrella, we hope that the law will be discussed and ratified soon. If there are controversial issues, a good solution will be sought," said Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, December 29.

"Don't let just a few differences make things that are urgent are delayed and delays are too risky because they are urgently needed," he added.

Calling violence against women and children an iceberg phenomenon, Muhadjir said that although there was a decline, it was only related to known or reported cases. While there are still many cases that have not been revealed.

For this reason, he emphasized that it is necessary to prepare infrastructure equipment which, according to him, is not optimal, with attention to the issue of protecting women and children which has only been in the spotlight in the last twenty years.

Muhadjir said that the government is paying attention to this issue with the existence of a special non-physical allocation fund (DAK) for the protection of women and children starting from the 2021 budget year amounting to IDR 101.2 billion and continuing in 2022 amounting to IDR 120 billion.

The funds were distributed to all regions to strengthen the handling of violence against women and children at the regional level.

According to the 2021 national women's life experience survey conducted by the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (Kementerian PPPA) found that physical and/or sexual violence perpetrated by partners and other than partners was experienced by 26.1 percent, or one in four women aged 15-64 years. , during his lifetime.

That figure represents a decline of 33.4 percent, or one in three women, based on the results of a 2016 survey.