Sexual violence toward children is against our constitution which mandates that every resident receives full defense in acquiring their fundamental rights as human
Jakarta – Deputy Speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR RI) Lestari Moerdijat has required ratification of sexual violence avoidance costs following increased frequency of sexual violence cases in Indonesia’s universities.
” I am very concerned concerning various acts of sexual violence that took place in a number of universities, both public and religious ones,” she said in a declaration here on Sunday.
” Stakeholders should take immediate action to fix this human rights violation case,” she affirmed.
She made this statement worrying a number of presumed unwanted sexual advances cases in a number of educational institutions in Bandung and Tasikmalaya, West Java, in addition to Cilacap, Central Java.
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Moerdijat was extremely worried that these cases would leave lots of victims traumatized both physically and mentally. In addition to these kids, their immediate and prolonged families had actually also been impacted.
Sexual violence towards kids is a criminal offense that infringes on human rights and could destroy the future of the country’s next generation.
” Sexual violence towards kids protests our constitution which mandates that every resident gets full protection in getting their basic rights as human,” she elaborated.
She urged stakeholders to accelerate the procedure to pass Sexual Violence Avoidance Costs into a law as one of the instrument to avoid this human rights violation that threatens the younger generation.
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Safeguarding every person from all type of hazards, consisting of sexual violence, is a constitutional required that should be prioritized, Moerdijat stated.
Every official in the executive, legal, and judiciary branches have the obligation to promote this mandate of the Constitution, she asserted.
Earlier, Women’s Empowerment and Kid Security Minister Bintang Puspayoga drew a parallel between the problem of violence against women and the iceberg phenomenon.
” Violence against ladies can be likened to the iceberg phenomenon in which the real issue is much deeper and more complicated than what is seen on the surface area,” Puspayoga remarked throughout a webinar here on Thursday.
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