Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – Incest or sexual relations between blood relatives against girls is the most frequent form of sexual violence. In its 2019 annual report, the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) found a jump in cases of violence against girls with some 2,341 cases.
This is a 65 percent increase on the previous year when there were 1,417 cases. Out of the 2,341 cases in 2019, 770 were cases of incest.
“It is this increase in the figure for [violence] against girls which is a big question for Komnas Perempuan, we can see that the most frequent kind of violence towards girls is incest with 770 cases”, said Komnas Perempuan Commissioner Mariana Amiruddin during an event titled Komnas Perempuan Annual Report in the Cikini area of Jakarta on Friday March 6.
Amiruddin said that most incest cases are experienced by girls. The domination of incest cases shows that women find themselves in an unsafe situation from an early age.
“The domination of incest cases in violence against girls shows that women from an early age are in a living situation which is unsafe especially since it is committed by their parents”, said Amiruddin.
Not only that, incest represents the largest number of cases in violence against women in the personal realm.
Referring to data from the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM), said Amiruddin, there were 822 cases of incest which was followed by 792 cases of rape.
One of the forms of this is sado-masochism and anal sex in forced sexual relations by husbands against wives. “Moreover in cases of incest there is also forced anal sex by fathers against their children”, said Amiruddin.
Amiruddin said that incest was one of the forms of sexual violence which victims find difficult to report because it involves family relations.
If seen in terms of the perpetrators of incest, Komnas Perempuan found that fathers and uncles were the most common perpetrators.
[Translated by James Balowski. The original title of the article was “Komnas Perempuan: Inses Jadi Kekerasan terhadap Anak Perempuan Tertinggi Sepanjang 2019”.]
