TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Indonesia’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology views the rising variety of reported sexual violence circumstances on campuses as an indication of rising public consciousness. This additionally displays the growing willingness of victims to come back ahead and report incidents to university-based process forces for the prevention and dealing with of sexual violence (PPKPT).
“It indicates the trust of the academic community members who have experienced violence, as they can report to the PPKPT task force at each campus because the trust already exists and is increasing,” mentioned Acting Secretary General of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Kemendiktisaintek) Badri Munir Sukoco on the Complex of the People’s Representative Council, Jakarta, on Monday, April 21, 2026.
Badri acknowledged that this yr the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology has included the symptoms for the prevention and dealing with of violence as elements of the evaluation of the efficiency of college leaders. This coverage is believed to encourage the seriousness of campuses in eradicating sexual violence.
According to him, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology has made preventive efforts in accordance with Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Regulation Number 55 of 2024 regarding Prevention and Handling of Violence in the University Environment. He talked about that every one state universities in Indonesia have the PPKPT process drive, and 65 p.c of personal universities even have it.
“Then, in terms of curative measures related to handling cases, whether mild, moderate, or severe from the six types of violence, we have taken action,” he mentioned.
On the identical event, Acting Inspector General of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology Nur Syarifah acknowledged that there was a rise in circumstances of sexual violence on campus from 2021 to 2024. However, she didn’t specify the variety of circumstances.
Nur Syarifah believes that with the growing variety of process forces at every campus, experiences of sexual violence may be higher monitored. Consequently, she mentioned, it has contributed to an elevated degree of reported circumstances. However, she talked about that it is usually influenced by the braveness of victims to report.
“The task forces have also become more active, so the reports are also accumulated, or we obtain information, so overall there is a significant increase in the number,” she mentioned.
Several circumstances of sexual harassment in the campus surroundings have not too long ago come to mild. The Indonesian Education Monitoring Network recorded that from January to March 2026, there have been 233 circumstances of violence, together with sexual violence, in the educational surroundings.
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