JAKARTA - The Indonesian Bouldering Federation (FPTI) immediately took a number of steps to protect all athletes so that serious cases such as sexual harassment and physical violence will not happen again later.
The Chairman of FPTI, Yenny Wahid, said that so far they have taken a stance on the newly revealed case, especially by providing support to athletes to take legal action to get justice.
"We are making more stringent rules internally to ensure that there is no more room for this kind of incident to happen," he said at the NOC Indonesia anniversary celebration in Jakarta.
FPTI immediately took steps to deactivate the head coach as a suspected perpetrator when the case of harassment was revealed. In addition, they also formed a fact-finding team (TPF) and accompanied the athletes who filed a report with the police.
Yenny said that this incident made them also make a number of increasingly strict protocols in the national training center (pelatnas) or such as not allowing athletes and coaches to practice alone.
"These are examples that we will make in the future, yes. So, protection is very strong in the future, yes. If I personally, for us the most important thing is that these children athletes recover mentally immediately," he said.
After the cliff climbing case came to light, the East Java kickboxing athlete, Viona Amalia Putri, also spoke out using the Instagram social media to reveal the case. The alleged perpetrator in the case was the former East Java Provincial Head of the Provincial Head.
These two cases made the Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora), Erick Thohir, furious. He said that sexual harassment is a heinous act that cannot be tolerated and must not be repeated, especially for athletes.
"The athlete has sacrificed, but why is he being persecuted. This is a hellish thing. Of course we (from the Government) encourage, if this is indeed a case that can certainly be prosecuted, yes, we strongly encourage," he said.
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