Government Accelerates Discussion Of The TPKS Bill

Deputy V Chief of Presidential Staff Jaleswari Pramodhawardani/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The government has accelerated the preparation of the Problem Inventory List (DIM) of the Draft Sexual Violence Act (RUU TPKS) by conducting internal consignments between ministries and related institutions. written statement received in Jakarta, Wednesday 2 February. According to Jaleswari, the government team from 31 January to 2 February 2022 held a consignment to discuss the DIM Bill on TPKS. Present at the consignment were representatives of ministries/agencies, namely the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture , Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection, Ministry of Law and Human Rights, National Police, Attorney General's Office, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Empowerment of State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform, Witness and Victim Protection Agency, and Presi Staff Office den.

Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights who is also the Head of the Task Force for the Acceleration of the Formation of the TPKS Bill, Edward OS Hiariej said the consignment was to ensure that the government team was solid. TPKS. This DIM will reflect the government's comprehensive view, not sectoral," said Edward. He also said that the ministries and institutions involved in the discussion both wanted to ensure that the TPKS Bill would maximize efforts to prevent sexual violence. as well as providing a qualified legal umbrella for law enforcement officers to move within the framework of law enforcement," said Edward. that the acceleration of the discussion The DIM cannot be separated from the direction of President Jokowi, who wants the preparation of the DIM to be completed as soon as possible. , representatives of civil society, academics, and other strategic groups," said Jaleswari. In January 2022, President Joko Widodo delivered an official statement regarding the TPKS Bill, ordering the Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna H. Laoly and the Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection I Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati to immediately coordinate consultations with the DPR in the discussion of the TPKS Bill so that there are steps to take. accelerated steps. President Jokowi also asked a in the government task force that handles the TPKS Bill to immediately prepare the DIM for the draft bill that is being prepared by the DPR RI. The goal is to provide maximum protection for victims of sexual violence. As is well known, the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Indonesian House of Representatives for Session III 2021-2022 on January 18, 2022 approved the TPKS Bill to become a DPR Initiative Bill. The TPKS Bill will then be discussed in two ways. conversation level. The first level talks are carried out in commission meetings, joint commission meetings, Legislation Board meetings, Budget Board meetings, or special committee meetings. Furthermore, level II talks are held in plenary meetings containing reports on the process, mini-faction opinions, mini-DPD opinions, and the results of the Level I Discussion. Indonesia is said to be experiencing an emergency of sexual violence because based on data collection belonging to the Ministry of PPPA, violence against children in 2019 occurred as many as 11,057 cases, 11,279 cases in 2020, and 12,566 cases as of November 2021 data. experienced by women, the Ministry of PPPA noted that it also experienced an increase. In the last 3 years there were 26,200 cases of violence against women.