DKI DPRD Prepares Stricter Sanctions in the Regulation on the Protection of Women, Non-Active NIK Options are Studied 

DOK VOI

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta DPRD is currently drafting a strengthening of sanctions in the Regional Regulation Draft (Ranperda) on the Implementation of Women's Protection. This step is taken because there are still many cases of violations of women's rights that end without having a deterrent effect on the perpetrators.

Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD Regional Regulation Making Agency (Bapemperda) Abdul Aziz said that the discussion of the Ranperda is now focused on formulating more firm and definitive sanctions so that the rules that are drafted are not only a norm on paper.

"So far, what we have encountered in the community is the difficulty of upholding justice in the field of women's protection because these sanctions are very light," Aziz told reporters, Tuesday, June 2.

According to Aziz, many problems that befall women are still resolved within the family so that they do not have sufficient consequences for the perpetrators. This condition is considered to be one of the obstacles in efforts to provide stronger protection for women.

"In this regulation, we want there to be strict sanctions against violators of the regulation on the protection of women," said Aziz.

In the previous discussion meeting, Bapemperda also invited the Legal Bureau and the DKI Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Office (Dukcapil). One of the things discussed was the possibility of applying administrative sanctions, including the option of deactivating the National Identification Number (NIK) as was once implemented in Surabaya.

However, Aziz reminded that the implementation of this mechanism in Jakarta requires further study because it has the potential to have an impact on other family members.

"In DKI, the system is that if the head of the family's NIK is not active, then automatically all of his family members are also inactive," said Aziz.

Therefore, the DPRD is still looking for an effective sanction formula without causing new social problems. A number of alternatives are being discussed before entering the finalization stage of the regulation.

"Hopefully next week we can formulate alternative sanctions that can be applied," he said.

Aziz gave an example of one of the problems often found in society is the abandonment of a wife by her husband without clarity of legal status or fulfillment of economic rights.

"There are women as wives who have been abandoned for years without being given sustenance, divorced also not," said Aziz.

According to him, cases of this kind show the need for rules that detail the form of violations and their legal consequences. In this way, victims obtain legal certainty, while perpetrators face clear sanctions.

"We want this to be definitive in the regulation. It is stated what the penalty is, so that this has a deterrent effect," concluded Aziz.