Efforts to protect children in Indonesia from abuse are obstructed by barriers to crime reporting, which may worsen with the threatened closure of police-run units that handle crimes ag

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – As if recovering from rape or molestation was not enough, teenage survivors of sexual abuse in Jakarta are saying that they have to fight for the right to con

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Jakarta – Cleric Hasan Ja'far Assegaf's molestation case might have escaped the national and local media spotlight, but anxiety among the victims and their familie

Septiana Ledysia, Jakarta – Five men calling themselves the New Men's Alliance (ALB) held a silent action opposing all forms of violence and rape against women at the Hotel Indonesia tr

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is being asked to revise the 2002 Children Protection Law this year in response to the rampant number of child abuse cases, with

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The city administration will cooperate with a number of institutions to set up child protection task forces (Satgas PA) in neighborhood and community units to

Dessy Sagita – Indah Kristina, a working mother with a 5-year-old daughter, is deeply concerned about the string of media reports on sexual abuse of children in Indonesia over the past

Environmental activists have condemned the Aceh administration following confirmation that it planned to reverse a logging ban imposed by the previous administration and clear up to 1.2

Jakarta – The parents of alleged victims of sexual abuse by Muslim cleric Hasan Ja'far Assegaf in 2011 have expressed concerns over the police's sluggish investigation.

SP/Fana F.S. Putra – A student has reported to police that the deputy headmaster of a Jakarta high school threatened to withhold her diploma if she refused to give him oral sex.

Farouk Arnaz – A teacher of Islamic studies in East Java was arrested on Friday for allegedly molesting at least 13 elementary school students.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Depok – An 18-year-old girl from Ciracas, East Jakarta, has been systematically raped by her biological father since she was 13 and now is one-and-a-half-months pregna

Jakarta – National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait says the Jakarta Police have wasted too much time in investigating a molestation case involv

SP/Erwin Sihombing – The South Jakarta Prosecutors Office have finally arrested spiritual guru Anand Krishna, after the convicted sexual harasser refused to turn himself in to authoriti

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Neither the scorching heat nor angry bosses could stop over 300 people from attending the One Billion Rising Indonesia flash mob dance at the National Monumen

Bambang Muryanto and Ainur Rohmah, Semarang/Yogyakarta – Women's activists, university students and housewives in Yogyakarta and Semarang, Central Java celebrated Valentine's Day on Thu

Puji Utami, Semarang – Scores of activists from the Legal Resources Center for Gender Justice and Human Rights (LRC-KJHAM) along with a number of Central Java women's organisations in t

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Wijaya Kusuma, Yogyakarta – One Billion Rising (OBR) rising activist in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta (Yogya) will hold a dance action as a form of opposition to and concern over

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) and the Supreme Court are at loggerheads over whether Judge Muhammad Daming Sunusi, who attracted widespread public outcry for making

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – After admitting to having made a mistake in recommending "rape joke" judge Muhammad Daming Sunusi for "fit-and-proper" tests, the Judicial Commission (KY) has dec

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – Activists rallied in Surakarta, Central Java, on Thursday, calling on the Home Ministry to remove regional government officials who abuse women.

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Nurdin Hasan – Women's rights activists in Aceh have urged the chief of police in Simeulue district to show more seriousness in addressing a case in which three policemen allegedly drug

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Islamic clerics in Aceh have demanded that the three police officers in the Simeulue district, who allegedly drugged and raped a 19-year-old woman, be caned f

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A 19-year-old woman was allegedly forced to take methamphetamine and then have sex with a police officer while two other cops watched in a case local police r

A senior Indonesian judge will face an ethics tribunal for saying rape victims enjoyed the act, an official said on Monday, after a judicial commission recommended his dismissal.

Agnes Winarti, Bali Daily, Denpasar – Although known as a paradise island, Bali has yet to be a paradise for Balinese women and children.

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) says judge Muhammad Daming Sunusi, who made headlines on Tuesday after making a controversial "rape joke", is unfit to be a Supreme C

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Jakarta – Despite allegations of child molestation against a number of local clerics in the city, not one suspect has been detained due to a lack of solid evidence in each case, accordi

Under the authoritarian rule of Suharto and during the transition period, Indonesia has experienced a range of conflicts marked by serious human rights violations.

Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) has recorded 686 cases of child abuse in the first half of this year, meaning that more than 100 cases have been repor

Jakarta – The National Commission on Child Protection (Komnas PA) says that at least 129 teenagers have been sexually assaulted this year to date, already surpassing the 121 cases recor

Dessy Sagita – A prominent teachers' union has demanded that Education Minister Mohammad Nuh resign for suggesting that a 14-year-old girl who faced expulsion from her school after bein

Camelia Pasandaran – A Depok junior high school expelled a 14-year-old girl on Monday who was recently kidnapped and raped by an angkot driver, saying the child had tainted the school's

Fatulmau, East Timor – Filomena Mendonca gave birth to all five of her children at home in the village of Fatulmau, high up in the mountains of East Timor, without registering their bir

Vento Saudale, Bogor – The police arrested a Koran recitation teacher in Wanaherang village in Bogor after he admitted to having sexually molested 13 of his students over the course of

Vento Saudale, Bogor, West Java – Police have arrested a Koran recitation teacher in the Wanaherang village in Gunung Putri, Bogor, after he admitted to having sexually molested 13 of h

Ronna Nirmala – The country's child protection agency has received an average of 100 complaints each month related to violations of children's rights through its hotline service in the

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The number of acts of violence against children, particularly cases of sexual assault, in North Sumatra has increased by 55 percent as compared to last year, re

Rahmat, Makassar – Police in South Sulawesi's Gowa district arrested two Koran recital teachers on Wednesday for allegedly sodomizing an 8-year-old student.

Bayu Marhaenjati – A popular Muslim cleric was questioned by the police on Monday about claims by 11 young men that he molested them years ago.

Iman Mahditama – The schedule of noted cleric Hasan bin Jafar Assegaf appears to be still jam-packed with frequent sermons at various venues over the city, even after a handful of his d

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The Jakarta Police on Friday denied stalling in bringing to court several cases of alleged sexual assault by a renowned traditional healer.

Many parents of the girls allegedly molested by a Koran recital teacher at Ibtidaiyah Al Marfuah Islamic school in Kebon Bawang, North Jakarta, are ready to drop their complaints due to

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – Measures to protect children against sexual exploitation remain weak, Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Linda Sari Gumelar said on Friday.

Vivi Widyawati and Zely Ariane – Around 100 women and men took part in a rally, Miniskirt Protest – Women against Rape, at the Bundaran Hotel Indonesia in Thamrin, Jakarta, on Sunday, S