Komnas Perempuan Critic Advertises Rabbani, Call It Misogynistic And Needs To Be Withdrawed

Member of Komnas Perempuan Siti Aminah Tardi. (ANTARA/ Anita Permata Dewi)

JAKARTA - Member of the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) Siti Aminah Tardi said that the statement in Rabbani's advertisement was a misogynist act and attached a stigma that women were the cause of sexual violence. "The statement in the advertisement is a misogynist act," said Siti Aminah Tardi when contacted in Jakarta, Antara, Tuesday, January 10. Misogini is a hatred or dislike for women or girls. Komnas Perempuan emphasized that women's open clothes were not significant as a cause of sexual violence. "Everything can happen to women in open clothes to clothes that are closed," said Siti Aminah Tardi. In the 2022 National Commission for Women's Annual Records, there were 4,660 cases of sexual violence recorded, with the majority of the perpetrators being known or close to the victim. "Not an unknown person who is focused on certain clothes," he added. Siti Aminah Tardi also denied the statement by Marketing Director Rabbani Ridwanul Karim who said Komnas Perempuan's data stated that women's clothes that were exposed were the trigger for sexual violence. Ridwanul Karim's statement implies that it is as if Komnas Perempuan's data also strengthens Rabbani's advertisements. "Komnas Perempuan's Annual Record for 20 years, from 2003 to 2022, has never mentioned that women's clothes that are open trigger sexual violence," said Siti. His party also urged Rabbani to withdraw the advertisement and apologize for deliberately including the mention of misleading viewers as if the ad information came from Komnas Perempuan data. Komnas Perempuan also invites the business world to be involved in efforts to eliminate violence against women and not to make violence against women a commodity of advertising, especially by conveying false information.