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February 2, 2025 | 11:42 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Arifatul Choiri Fauzi plans to create regulations to handle femicide cases in legislation. Femicide is the murder of women that is carried out directly or indirectly because of their sex or gender.
Currently, Arifah is discussing with various parties regarding the plan to create the regulation. "Let's see, we will discuss it together," she said when met at Kota Kasablanka Mall, South Jakarta, on Saturday, February 1, 2025.
Arifah said that one of the causes of femicide is the trauma experienced by the perpetrator, which then triggers hatred towards women. "Femicide tortures women because there is a background of trauma experienced," she said. Previously, quoted from Antara, the Assistant Deputy for the Protection of Women's Rights in Households and the Vulnerable at the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection, Eni Widiyanti, said that the murder of women or femicide is important to be regulated in legislation.
"Unfortunately, our legislation does not recognize the terminology of femicide. The murder of women is considered the same as ordinary murder, so there has never been an in-depth analysis of the root causes that cause femicide to continue to occur," she said when contacted in Jakarta, Friday, January 31, 2025.
According to Eni Widiyanti, if there were regulations governing femicide, it would be clear how to handle it, the root of the problem, and how to prevent it. This statement was made in response to the case of the mutilation of women in a suitcase in Ngawi, East Java.
In addition, based on data from the National Commission on Violence Against Women, from 2020 to 2023, there were 798 cases of femicide in Indonesia. The Commissioner of the National Commission on Violence Against Women, Veryanto Sitohang, assessed that the partisanship of law enforcement officers in femicide cases was not very good. In fact, femicide is the peak of violence against women.
"This case of femicide is often considered an ordinary crime. In fact, it has a different dimension, women being killed is the peak of violence against women," he said in Bogor City, West Java, Sunday, December 8, 2023.
He said that femicide arises from violence directed at women. Therefore, he said, law enforcement officers and the public must recognize femicide, including the methods used by the perpetrators.
"What are the characteristics of the methods used in this femicide should not be considered ordinary crimes. Femicide is an extraordinary crime and requires more serious handling so that this case is not underestimated by the public," he said.
Therefore, Veryanto said that Komnas Perempuan is trying to introduce femicide to the public and the community, where this is also an effort to protect the families of victims left behind.
"Because this femicide has the potential for revenge, I think this is important to anticipate so that it can be prevented. Including helping to restore the families of victims left behind by femicide victims," he said.
Dinda Shabrina and Antara contributed to writing this article.
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