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Unesa.ac.id, SURABAYA—Dozens of students who are members of the Sexual Violence Prevention and Handling Task Force (PPKS) from various universities are taking part in the National Anti-Sexual Violence Camp in Trawas, Mojokerto, on Tuesday-Thursday, 3-5 October 2023 .
This activity is organized into two agendas. First, the camp agenda which consists of several activities, starting from lectures about PPKS, discussion groups, problem solving, quizzes and games, best practice presentations and commitments or devotions.
Second, seminars containing paper submissions; best practices for preventing and handling PPKS on campus, PPKS ideas and concepts, digital-based sexual violence and digital snares and sexual violence, as well as other related themes.
Prof. Dr. Mutimmatul Faidah, S.Ag., M.Ag., Director of Prevention and Management of Campus Strategic Issues (PPISK) said that the activity which was coupled with an online national seminar was aimed at building and strengthening the National PPKS Task Force network.
Apart from that, to increase the capacity of the Task Force in carrying out its role in realizing a campus with zero sexual violence, and to strengthen the Task Force's commitment to implementing the PPKS Minister of Education and Culture Regulation.
"The follow-up is expected to be able to form a student element PPKS Task Force community and implement the PPKS program in two domains, namely prevention, so that cases can be prevented temporarily. "The second domain is handling with formulas based on the principle of justice," he said.
The Role of Students on and Off Campus
In the material session, the Commissioner of the National Commission on Violence Against Women, Veryanto Sitohang, conveyed about "The Role of Students in Preventing and Handling Sexual Violence in the Higher Education Environment".
According to him, efforts that students can make regarding preventing sexual violence, one of which is limiting meetings with lecturers and staff individually (alone). ) especially outside the campus area, outside campus operating hours, or for purposes other than the learning process outside the approval of the head of the study program.
In the Minister of Education and Culture PPKS Regulation, this cannot be done. In fact, students used to chase their thesis supervisors all the way to the lecturer's house, especially at night, which is no longer allowed.
"Students must also play an active role in preventing them, whether as members or non-members of the task force. Why are students being mentioned? specifically? Because you can mobilize students to prevent and overcome sexual violence," he said.
Modes and Strategies to 'Fight' Sex Abuse
Meanwhile, Iman Pasu Marganda Hadiarto Purba, S.H., M.H., as Head of the PPKS Sub-directorate delivered material "Questioning the Trend of Digital-Based Sexual Violence (Digital Sex Abuse)".
He explained that the trend of digital sex abuse cases is increasing through social media such as WA, IG, fraudulent product promotion sponsorship offers with sensual photos, threats to send sensual photos, deviant sexual orientation, fraud as research respondents, etc.
He invited students to fight this with digital ethics, namely strengthening ethics and spiritual, use common sense, think far, and pay attention to safety. There are several strategies to be free from digital sex abuse such as, 1) understand the risks, 2) account security, 3) online privacy, 4) device security.
Next, 5) don't respond to harassment, 6) avoid silence and leave it, but report it, 7) psychological support, join a support group, 8) Legal rights, and 9) Be careful about sharing personal images.
"Hopefully this can hone the Task Force's ability to carry out prevention and response missions KS both in the digital realm and in real spaces on campus and so on," hoped Iman.
As quoted in the guidebook, this activity was also attended by other presenters; Subiyantoro, D.H., M.Sc., Inspector IV, Inspectorate General of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Nanda Audia V, M.Psi., Psychologist, UNESA PPKS Task Force, and Putri Aisyiah RD., S.Sos., M.Med.Kom., gender and media activist.
Camp The National Anti-Sexual Violence was attended by 60 participants from various elements, consisting of 27 representatives of the campus PPKS Task Force for student elements throughout Indonesia from various regions from Aceh to Manado, and the rest from the UNESA PPKS Task Force and UNESA Anti-KS Ambassadors. Meanwhile, the National Seminar was attended by 150 participants in a hybrid manner. [*]
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Writer: Muhammad Azhar Adi Mas'ud
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