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Protestors carry a placard against femicide that states 180 reported cases across 38 Indonesian provinces in 2023, in a street demonstration on Nov. 25, 2024, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Jakarta. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
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undreds of Indonesian women and girls continue to die in gender-based killings, with activists warning that state neglect, inadequate healthcare and systemic injustice are increasingly contributing to preventable deaths, particularly in eastern Indonesia.
A new report by advocacy group Jakarta Feminist recorded 230 femicide victims in 2025, including 31 underage girls, up from 209 cases documented a year earlier. The report, titled Negligence Leads to Death, was launched on Friday.
Drawing on media reports, court rulings and documentation from women’s support groups, the report found that most perpetrators were people closest to the victims, including husbands, boyfriends and former partners. Motives were often layered, ranging from economic hardship to relationship conflicts.
Beyond direct acts of violence, however, Jakarta Feminist highlighted a growing pattern of what it describes as indirect femicide, in which women face a heightened risk of death because of negligence, repeated violence or failures by institutions to provide protection and essential services.
“We found femicide cases that resulted from both negligence and the state's failure to provide women with access to essential services,” Jakarta Feminist program officer Nur Khofifah said at the report's launch in Jakarta.
Among the cases highlighted was that of Irene Sokoy, a pregnant woman from Jayapura, Papua, who died in November after hospitals allegedly refused to treat her during labor. Another involved Maria Yunita of Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, who died after being unable to undergo emergency surgery during childbirth because no anesthesiologist was available.
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