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Indonesian Society in ‘Crisis,’ Warns Agency as New Child Abuse Figures Released
July 23, 2010

National Commission for Children’s Protection chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait is warning of a "social crisis" in Indonesia after shocking new child abuse statistics were released. (Antara Photo) National Commission for Children’s Protection chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait is warning of a "social crisis" in Indonesia after shocking new child abuse statistics were released. (Antara Photo)
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SirAnthonyKnown-Bender
5:03pm Jul 23, 2010

PR, your hitting male chauvinism central big time here. Clearly issues of knee jerk nationalism trump those of social class and gender equality for you. Although it seems unlikely that you're actually Indonesian at all. Low life males and low class females ay? Loose legs and loose morals? Some mothers in the West actually choose to be single parents in fact, however you may want to ask yourself exactly why a woman would, in her desperation, use a pregnancy to hold onto a man. Opportunities for women in this culture and few and far between and will only get slimmer as the increasing Islamo-fascist sharia-ization forces them back into the kitchen for good. Your rather sneering use of the term 'low class' also smacks of arrogance, misogyny and the mindset of the Indonesian political elites, elites who ill serve their country, a country that deserves a whole lot better. Stick with the global hegemony, pax-Americana, petro-chemical stuff, you were on the right lines there, and leave the sisters alone.

Pribumi-Raya
3:56pm Jul 23, 2010

The issue of abuse seems to stem from resentment, anger and frustration of often abandoned mothers by low-life males who then abscond from the responsibility of fatherhood.

Although common in the West- to Indonesian society it is a major and somewhat novel calamity- and single mothers are without the luxury of state welfare the West can afford.

The broader issue is firstly of low-class female loose legs and morals using sexual favour to entice and entrap males, family planning and preventing the unwanted pregnancy from occurring in the first place.

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Jakarta. The National Commission for Children’s Protection says it had recorded 1,826 cases of violence, sexual assault and incest against children across Indonesia in the first five months of 2010 alone.

“The number of cases of violence against children, especially physical and sexual violence, has increased. In the first five months of 2010 alone, there were 1,826 cases,” Arist Merdeka Sirait, chairman of the commission, Komnas Anak, said in Jakarta on Thursday.

Some 68 percent of the sexual abuse cases involved close relatives, he said.
   
For all of 2009, there were a total of 1,891 cases of violence against children, up from 1,626 cases in 2008, according to the commission’s data.

Sirait said the cases reflected the failure of families to protect their children, citing examples of where a parent had burned their own baby and a mother broke her five-month-old baby’s hand and leg.

“It’s a social crisis and the violence does not make sense. Those who committed the violence were the ones who are supposed to be protecting the children,” he said.

Children who are particularly prone to violence are street children and children from middle- and low-income families, Sirait said.


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