Jakarta (ANTARA) - The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has urged the Indonesian government to maintain a database on femicide in the country.
Komnas Perempuan Commissioner Siti Aminah Tardi said that the commission is currently striving to collect data on cases categorized as femicide."We are doing this together with the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) and law enforcement institutions," Tardi informed at the "Femicide in Indonesia: Reality, Challenges, and Solutions" online discussion on Saturday.
Data on cases of violence categorized as femicide has so far not been archived well, thereby posing a big challenge for Komnas Perempuan and other authorities.
The commission noted that femicide is still little known among people and is not recognized by regulations derived from national and regional laws.
Meanwhile, in the legal context, cases of murder against women are handled like common criminal cases. Therefore, disaggregated data on murder against women is not available with the Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) of the National Police (Polri).
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"This is one of the challenges faced by Komnas Perempuan in conducting a study on femicide and its legal perspective in Indonesia. Even international human rights instruments do not specifically highlight cases of femicide as the most extreme form of violence against women," she explained.
Thus, most approaches to seeking data are still leaning toward information on perpetrators, while data on victims is still limited, she said.
Furthermore, in society, femicide is still regarded as a general crime. Complaints to service provider organizations and the Komnas Perempuan regarding femicide are almost non-existent. (INE)
