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Indonesia: Unacceptable Peace

Published Date: 
Monday, August 24, 2015
Source: 
IWE-WELDD

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The high rate of violence to women encouraged Mrs. Harni to move to accompany the victims. Her work, which she has been doing since 2001, was started by establishing a women organization named FAKTA.

Along the way, cases of violence against women are often solved by making a “deal” between the victim and the perpetrator.

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Mrs. Harni with her friends noticed that this way is not fair and doesn’t give any lesson to the perpetrator, thus she continuously tries to accompany the violence cases through the legal means.

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Issue: 
Culturally Justified Violence Against Women