“I feel street harassment has been normalised within our society,” said Anindya Restuviani, coordinator of Feminist Festival Indonesia, which organises events on women’s issues, including harassment. Activists in Indonesia estimate that millions of street harassment incidents go unreported each year. The Indonesian National Police did not reply to multiple requests for official data on street harassment cases. In 2014, Kate Walton, an Australian activist and writer based in Jakarta, started an online discussion group after experiencing near-daily street harassment. Walton’s discussion group has more than 2,000 Indonesian and expatriate members, and stories of street harassment are a regular topic of conversation.

Source: New Strait Times December 10, 2017 03:33 UTC