Minister Of PPPA: Women Are Often Considered The Cause Of Men's Reckless Corruption

Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) I Gusti Ayu Bintang I Gusti Ayu Bintang (Photo: DOK ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) I Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati asked for the stigma of women to be the cause of corruption in men being removed. All parties must open their eyes and promote gender justice and equality, including in the judiciary sector. This was conveyed in an online discussion entitled Corruption and Crime against Women. Bintang highlighted that there are still many stigmas that consider the husband to be desperate to corrupt because of the pressure of his wife. "In the family order, wives are often used as rationalizations of acts of corruption. Women are often considered the party that causes men to commit corruption or demands by wives is the reason their husbands commit corruption," said Bintang in a discussion broadcast online, Friday, March 31. "For that I hope that we can open our eyes and become advocates who can create, promote and intensify various activities to fight corruption. Not only to overcome socio-economics, but also to promote gender justice and equality," he continued. Meanwhile, the Director of Community Participation Development of the KPK Kumbul Kusdjiwanto stated that corruption actually did not only occur with the provision of money. Sexual forms to those related to criminal acts of trafficking in persons (TPPO). Thus, the anti-corruption commission is ready to implement a strategy to eradicate sexual corruption and TIP. From education, for example, the public must be invited to understand that they are not involved and do not want to commit sexual corruption. "We also encourage the education curriculum by making education anti-corruption. And we ask local governments to sit down together in order to minimize the occurrence of TIPs and sexual crimes," said Kumbul.

As for the field of prosecution, the KPK seeks to provide a deterrent effect. Thus, Kumbul said, corruption crimes, both money and sexual, no longer occur. "This strategy must be carried out simultaneously with the help of all levels of society," he concluded.