Legal Politics of Sex Crimes
With regard to the protection of women (victims), the Criminal Code no longer meets the demands of the times. The Criminal Code of the colonial legacy is oriented toward punishment of perpetrators.
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Over the past two weeks, beside the uproar over the revision of the Corruption Eradication (KPK) Law, the media landscape was also full of news about the plan to pass the Criminal Code bill (RKUHP) into law and negligence in the deliberation of the draft law on the elimination of sexual violence (RPKS).
The first stage of the RKUHP deliberation has been completed (Kompas, 17/9/2019), while the discussion on the RPKS has not yet begun. Last Tuesday, women\'s groups in a number of cities simultaneously demanded a promise from the House of Representatives (DPR) to immediately pass the RPKS, while other groups rejected the draft. In the article The Dilemma of Reforming the Law on Sexual Violence and Victim Protection (Kompas, 21/8/2019), Sri Wiyanti Eddyono said there was a tug of war between criminal law experts and women\'s groups supporting the RPKS besides touching the historical differences in the formulation and placement of sexual crimes in the two bills.