This paper reckons the facts that legal norms embedded within the texts of some Indonesian Law, owing to their historical and philosophical backgrounds, are dominantly prejudiced by the patriarchic ideology. This lead to prevailing tendency to comprehend legal wordings within the existing provisions on violent crimes against women, and consequently their applications, solely from a masculine perspective. This study therefore, recommends that new interpretation towards the existing provisions should be carried out progressively, by means of reasoning capable of comprehending the severe experience of women
This paper reckons the facts that legal norms embedded within the texts of some Indonesian Law, owing to their historical and philosophical backgrounds, are dominantly prejudiced by the patriarchic ideology. This lead to prevailing tendency to comprehend legal wordings within the existing provisions on violent crimes against women, and consequently their applications, solely from a masculine perspective. This study therefore, recommends that new interpretation towards the existing provisions should be carried out progressively, by means of reasoning capable of comprehending the severe experience of women
This paper reckons the facts that legal norms embedded within the texts of some Indonesian Law, owing to their historical and philosophical backgrounds, are dominantly prejudiced by the patriarchic ideology. This lead to prevailing tendency to comprehend legal wordings within the existing provisions on violent crimes against women, and consequently their applications, solely from a masculine perspective. This study therefore, recommends that new interpretation towards the existing provisions should be carried out progressively, by means of reasoning capable of comprehending the severe experience of women