PDIP Legislator Suggests TPKS Bill To Accommodate Sexual Violence In Social Media

JAKARTA - Member of the PDIP faction in the DPR Rieke Diah Pitaloka suggested that the Draft Law on the Crime of Sexual Violence (RUU TPKS) could expand the reach and accommodate complaints of sexual violence that occurred on social media or online gender-based violence (KBGO). This was said by Rieke. along with the increase in sexual crimes through social networks.

"I will not tire of asking legal experts for help so that the substance of the TPKS Bill also reaches out to the possibility that social media can be used as a weapon for perpetrators to further bring down their victims," Rieke said in an online discussion, Sunday, February 27.

The member of Commission VI of the DPR explained that sexual violence that occurred on social media showed how technology had made sexual violence run faster, more massively, and more distributed. Including, with content that seems to have no limits in the virtual world.

In fact, said Rieke, before the Electronic Information and Transactions Law (ITE), the victim can actually be a suspect. This is based on his experience in advocating for victims of sexual violence.

"Don't let the law even give freedom to perpetrators of sexual violence, not protect victims, not become a grip for victims and their families," said Rieke. According to Rieke, advocacy efforts are not enough for two or even a group of people. But there must be a network of resistance against sexual violence. "It also has to be done anywhere, including in the academic room. Especially in the legal room," he said.

Therefore, Rieke uses technology to assist his party in conveying the idea of against sexual violence to the public.

"The support that we are gathering through social media is not only from within the country, but also from abroad," said Rieke.