In Indonesia, hopes rising for long-awaited sexual violence bill

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and she is now hoping parliament passes a new law on sexual violence, a decade after activists first proposed legislation.

Now 43-years-old, the observant Muslim woman still appears reticent broaching such weighty matters, and she hasn't joined activists campaigning for change. But her meekly spoken words carry the weight of personal experience.

They have been talking about it since 2016, with its progress stalled by several political parties, the most vocal of which had a conservative, Islamic pedigree. Sexual violence complaints have been rising in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, where sexual abuse is often regarded as a private matter, not a legal one.

 

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