In 2019, five students from the University of Indonesia sat in a room at the Faculty of Law. The four men and one woman came from two very different institutions: the University of Indonesia Student Executive Board and Hopehelps UI, a volunteer-led community network that provides help to victims of assault.
It’s rare to see representatives from these two groups come together and sit down to talk. But one thing united them: sexual violence.
The meeting came at a time when sex assaults on university campuses were in the news with Tirto.id, The Jakarta Post, and VICE Indonesia all reporting on the issue in the wake of the high profile Agni case — which became a trigger for the movement against sexual violence on campus — and the case of a poet artist who allegedly raped students at the University of Indonesia.
