Domestic Violence in Garut District

Women are the citizens who have strategic role that can succeed the national development. This strategic role can be applied within the family, education, economy, and environmental preservation. Women’s strategic role cannot be applied effectively if the women possess neither physical health nor psychological health. Women tend to have more unstable psychological state than men do. Thus, women have the deep sensitivity and trauma when they experience disturbing incident, which endangers them. That is why women need to get special attention and protection so that they are able to work in various fields without experiencing discrimination. Problems that can easily occur in everyday life, especially in the smallest scope, the family, is violence problem that target the women as its object. Violence against the women keeps happening and increasing both in quantity and in quality. One of its triggers is an unbalance gender relation between men and women. As an example, when there is a domestic violence case , women usually become its victim. It is very rare for men who become the victim in domestic violence case. In order to anticipate and prevent the violence against the women, Indonesian government has given human rights guarantee for all women by imposing the constitution number 23, 2004 regarding domestic violence eradication. One of the implementation of that policy is applied through legal entity that serves public regarding women and children cases; in Indonesian national police, there is a unit that deals with women and children protection (from now on will be known as PPA). Based on domestic violence case observation result that occurs in Garut regent, it is increasing in each year. During 2015, there were 17 reported cases on PPA Unit, criminal detective unit of Garut District Police. Meanwhile, in 2016, it increased to 19 cases. The increasing of case numbers is a challenge for PPA Unit at Garut District Police to improve its service by being more responsive towards the public complaint or report. Based on the issue stated above, the writer is interested in finding out more about the domestic violence in Garut District.