Students in Indonesia speak up against sexual abuse and harassment on campus

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JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - 'The road was quiet with only palm trees around and it was only two of us in his car when he began to caress my thigh and slip his hand under my bottom. I didn't know why but I couldn't scream. I didn't fight back because I was so scared. I'm afraid he would get angry and he could do anything to me if I screamed. I could be killed. I don't want to die in vain,' said a student from a state university in Sumatra, recalling her chilling story of sexual abuse at the hands of her lecturer. She was going with him on a field trip to do research.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

JAKARTA -"The road was quiet with only palm trees around and it was only two of us in his car when he began to caress my thigh and slip his hand under my bottom. I didn't know why but I couldn't scream. I didn't fight back because I was so scared. I'm afraid he would get angry and he could do anything to me if I screamed. I could be killed.

Yogyakarta and Semarang are home to Gadjah Mada University and Diponegoro University , respectively, which have been named in high-profile cases of alleged sexual abuse. There have been two cases at UGM, one of which went viral in November last year, where a student, whose pseudonym is Agni, reported that she was sexually assaulted by a fellow student.

In another story, a medical student at an Islamic-based university in Central Java shared that she had been harassed before an operation by a doctor during her internship at a hospital. Some victims also reported being verbally harassed. One of them is a student at a Catholic university in West Java. She said a lecturer made a"joke" about susu, which can mean either milk or breasts, while pointing at her breasts in front of her friend and another lecturer.

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