‘Breaking the Silence’: The Way in which Indonesian Women Experiencing Nonphysical Violence within the Family Access the Legal System

SARASWATI, RIKA (2016) ‘Breaking the Silence’: The Way in which Indonesian Women Experiencing Nonphysical Violence within the Family Access the Legal System. In: THE ASIAN LAW & SOCIETY ASSOCIATION (ALSA) CONFERENCE 2016, 22-23 September 2016, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

‘Breaking the silence’ is necessarily part of women being able to obtain their rights and resolve issues of violence in their lives. Indonesian women domestic violence victims’ experiences have shown that they often have opportunity to access many resources when they start ‘breaking the silence’ and reaching out to others (individuals and agencies) in regard to the violence being suffered (usually at their husbands’ hands), although not all resources were useful in individual cases. The passage by the Indonesian government of the Domestic violence Act in 2004 increased people’s awareness of domestic violence issue (including women’s awareness) of domestic violence. While aims to protect women (and children), in reality the ability of the women victims to assert was different for each woman. This was large attributable to the varied understanding of the legal officers encountered and their consequent responses. Indonesian women consider police responses negative when reported violence, particularly non-physical violence. Police still find obstacles to investigating claims where non-physical violence is reported by victims, although the legislation covers ‘non-physical’ violence such as psychological and sexual violence, and neglect, as well as physical violence.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	300 Social Sciences > 340 Law
Divisions:	Faculty of Law and Communication > Department of Law
Depositing User:	ms Rika Saraswati
Date Deposited:	05 Jan 2021 04:44
Last Modified:	20 Sep 2022 16:29
URI:	http://repository.unika.ac.id/id/eprint/23260

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