Ethnical Issues ofWomen’s Protection: Ending the Violent Crime Against Women in Indonesia

Abstract

This paper is published to explain the risk factors of the violent crime against women in Indonesia and to show the readers about impact experienced by the victims of violent crime against women in Indonesia especially in the West Java province. It also will tell the readers about the suggestion of the victims who had experienced violence to emphasize the women right to live free from the violent crime in Indonesia. Questionnaires were used to collect the data in this study and it was conducted in the Central Java province, Indonesia. 960 women and girls who were victims of the violent crime against women are taking part in this study. The data were collected using a questionnaire which is the participants personal information consisting of 13 question items prepared by researchers. The questionnaires form variables are including participant name, age, education, occupation, education status, and monthly income. All data collection tools are used in Indonesian language, in ways that can be done and understood by the participants. According to this study, 44% of cases of violence against women occurred on 31-40 years old women, 31.4% occurred on 21-30 years old women, and to the tune of 13% occurred on under the 20 years old, which showed that participants under age of 50-year-old are more likely to experience cases of violence when compared to women above 50-year-old which there were only 2.6% of cases. 48% of cases of Violence against women were founds on who have only completed primary school, 8% of cases against women who have no education history at all, meanwhile only 7% of cases happened to women who graduated from college. 44% cases of housewives and 28% of cases experienced by factory workers. Victims with low monthly income have high violent cases which are 55%, while women with higher monthly income only have 11% of cases. This study also determined that women were mostly exposed to physical violence (91%) and sexual violence (64%). The perpetrators are mostly their husbands (50%) and victims’ boyfriends (21%). From these data it is very clear that educational background, levels of work and monthly income has an important factor in occurrences of violent crime against women’s cases. In conclusion for this study, as in many similar studies too, Violence against women’s cases is very high. There are still a lot of women who do not consider the behavior of the perpetrators as a violent crime. Socioeconomic status and lower educational background are factors determining this situation. According to this study results, the main influencing factors that increase the level of violence reported include relatively women under 50 years old, low levels of education, unemployment, and low monthly incomes. We are convinced that this research can be very helpful as guidance and literature in resolving the problem of violence against women.