Government Targets Completing Regulations Implementing TPKS Law This Year

Deputy for Protection of Women's Rights Kemen PPPA Ratna Susianawati/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The government targets the implementing regulations of Law Number 12 of 2022 concerning the Crime of Sexual Violence to be completed this year. "This is the work of all ministries/agencies as representatives of the Indonesian government. finish," said the Deputy for Women's Rights Protection at the PPPA Ministry, Ratna Susianawati, in a press release in Jakarta, Tuesday, June 7. The implementing regulations in the form of Government Regulations (PP) and Presidential Regulations (Perpres) are currently being drafted by the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection. together with 13 related ministries/institutions. Ratna said the first PP would discuss the source, allocation and use of victim aid funds based on Article 35 Paragraph 4 of the TPKS Law. .Furthermore, PP regarding the award cessation and or termination of access to electronic information and or electronic documents containing TPKS is considered to be closely related to the procedures for handling, protecting and recovering which regulates the rights of victims.

"We also think that Article 80 regarding the implementation of TPKS prevention and Article 83 paragraph 5 regarding coordination and monitoring are very possible to be regulated in one PP," Ratna said. Meanwhile, the five Presidential Regulations mandated in the TPKS Law will be simplified into four regulations. and the implementation of integrated services at the center will be regulated in one regulation," he said. The other three Presidential Regulations will regulate the Regional Technical Implementation Unit for the Protection of Women and Children (UPTD PPA), the provision of education and training for law enforcement officers and the national policy on eradicating TPKS. We will start the drafting, drafting, public testing, refinement, finalization, program submissions in June 2022. Today is a momentum to re-guard the TPKS Law after it was ratified on 9 May 2022. This PP and Presidential Regulation are the answer to the operationalization of the TPKS Law," said Ratna.