After successfully collecting data on the voices of victims of sexual abuse with the KBN Cakung Women’s Post (2017), in 2018 Perempuan Mahardhika along with the Women’s Garment Workers at KBN Cakung moved to be involved in advocating of the Bill on the Elimination of Sexual Violence (RUU P-KS) which stagnate for years in the DPR (House of Representatives), and new draft of ILO Convention on the Elimination of Violence and Discrimination in the World of Work.

Support from the ESSF helped us to realize the Rent-House Discussion to socialize the contain of empowerment and fulfillment of victims’ rights stated in the Bill and the Convention through leaflets production, posters and other campaign tools. This rent-house discussion is also a process for sharing experiences, seeing how the vulnerability of sexual harassment that occurs in the workplace and daily life becomes the basis that urges the ratification of the Bill on the Elimination of Sexual Violence. Thus process also helped the women workers of the KBN Cakung to be actively involved in the massive protets « Listen to the Voices of Victims, Immediately Ratified the Bill on the Elimination of Sexual Violence » in Jakarta on December 8, 2018 along with various women’s groups.

Perempuan Mahardhika is also thankfull for the ESSF’s support in the effort to handle the disaster in Palu in September 2018 and later . This support was help us in logistics distribution such as rice, vegetables, mineral water, and baby milk, especially in areas far from the center of Palu city such as Lombonga, Malei, Walandano, Sibado, Sikara and Sibayu Villages located in Donggala District. We link the support of ESSF through FMK Post. Its a post created by Popular Student Federation (FMK), one of the Perempuan Mahardhika’s network in Palu.

Finally, we really appreciate the support of the ESSF in 2018, and hope that this collaboration to strengthen solidarity and humanitarianism could continues in the future.

Perempuan Mahardhika

Since December 2016 ESSF has been providing annual support to Perempuan Mahardhika for its activities.

€2,000 were transferred to Perempuan Mahardhika in 2016 and €1,000 in 2017,€2,000 in 2018 – so €7,000 in total (2016-2018).

See also :

ESSF (article 47541), ESSF Report on Its Financial Solidarity for Indonesia in 2018