Overview

Belajar Dari Akar Rumput

In 2005, Komnas Perempuan (Woman Right Association) reported that there were 20.291 cases of domestic violence from 29 provinces in Indonesia. This is an issue to be concern about because the number means that domestic violence was increased by 45% compared to the previous years. The government already worked together with NGO and citizens to solve this issue, but the statistic over the next year shows no significant progress. This is largely happen because there are a lot of basic question remains unanswered on solving the problem: what kind of violation that happened to woman? in what stage it happens? what are the causes? how to minimize it?. On this book you can find our analysis and answer to the domestic violence issue in Indonesia. We learn that to solve the issue you have to look at the most important stage: the grassroots stage. The book itself are collection of articles and essay from various organization that work on domestic violence issue in Yogyakarta. It means that you can find a wealth amount of perspective, strategy, activity and learning material inside the book.