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disease is new to me, but the medical examiners suggested I take antiretroviral medication regularly. Now my weight is back to normal. I’m healthy and can work in the field and live normally. 95 One wife did not know that her husband had HIV/AIDS until he was very weak and could not get up. The wife took her husband to the hospital and he was treated for two weeks. No doctors or nurses wanted to come and check on my husband’s condition. It was as if they were scared and disgusted to see us. Finally . . . a doctor . . . said, “You can take him home tonight.” . . . That night I was forced to carry him home . . . He worked for the state electricity company (PLN) after being unemployed for several years. But then he started getting drunk a lot and rarely came home, and it turns out he was going to prostitutes. He had affairs with two women. One of them has already died . . . [It was when] he knew he would die before he confessed and expressed regret and apologized to me. 96 A woman who lived with her husband in Nabire also tested positive for HIV/AIDS. Her husband came home drunk. He got angry and said that his wife was no good, and sold betel nut in order to meet other men. He beat his wife and chased her with a machete, so the wife ran away and hid at her family’s house. When the husband realized what had happened, he asked her family to persuade his wife, and then she returned home to her husband. The wife knew that her husband was ill when he went to the hospital and officials said he had HIV. After that the wife did not want to meet her husband and left him in hospital until he died. After her husband died, the wife was examined in 2009 and it was found that she too was infected with HIV. 97 2.6. Layered Violence: Victims of State Violence Become Victims of Domestic Violence One very pathetic phenomenon is experienced by victims of state violence who are then ostracized by their own families and eventually become victims of domestic violence. The Documentation Team found at least fourteen victims of this “layered violence”. In the 1980s, soldiers caught a woman and her three-month-old child, and then raped her. Nearly twenty years later her husband left her, with the excuse that the victim had been violated: I . . . was ordered to go into the forest to look for my husband . . . [I was] followed by six soldiers. After that I was taken to the post . . . beaten and raped by soldiers—two Papuans, three non-Papuans. After two days, I was taken to the hospital because my genitals . . . were bleeding and had to have stitches. After I was examined by intelligence . . . [I went home] . . . My husband finally married again in 2005 . . . I feel it’s not fair at all because what I experienced was to save my husband. 98 One woman became a victim in 1968 during a firefight between Marines and the OPM in Marsyom Village, North Biak. The victim, along with her family and other villagers, fled into the forest and lived there until 1980. After returning to the village in 1980, the victim’s husband went to look for work in Merauke due to economic hardship, and has not returned until now. She received news that her husband has married again. In this difficult situation, the victim alone supports her children by selling betel nut: In the end my husband left me, didn’t look after me, I alone pay for my children’s expenses. Some have . . . dropped out of school, some have no work. I myself sell and look for food until now. All this time, the man doesn’t take 95 WAM25 narrative. 96 SOR22 narrative. 97 Field notes on NAB01 case. 98 KJ07 narrative. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! 49
notice. Because of this problem, I just live alone. 99 Even more tragic, is the situation of a woman from Merauke who lives in the area of oil palm plantations and was repeatedly raped by soldiers from 1997–2008. When she told her husband what she had experienced, he divorced her. 100 Slightly different are the experiences of women victims who were forced to use birth control and then later became victims of domestic violence or were abandoned by their husbands, as they were thought unable to fulfill their duties as wives. 101 2.7. No Safe Haven The Documentation Team observes that in the handling of domestic violence cases, almost no victims receive the healing and protection they need. This is evident by several victims of domestic violence who were hospitalized because they had teeth knocked out (SOR07, SOR08); broken bones (WAM13, MER22); a torn lip (WAM18); and knocked unconscious (WAM07). Women may experience domestic violence for years and years, where the victim experiences extraordinary abuse, including, for example, being raped by her husband (KJP18) or forced to have sex with other men (KJP13). One victim of domestic violence even got venereal diseases, including HIV/AIDS, until finally she died (WAM26). Victims of domestic violence are ostracized by society (SOR04) or by members of their own families. Victims of domestic violence experience violence in their homes (WAM16), on the roadside (WAM18), and in their fields (WAM02). Sometimes a wife who tries to escape from her husband is chased by him (WAM18) or is urged by her own family to return to her husband (WAM15). When the victim seeks protection from the police there is no guarantee that the police will do anything. That up to now there is not a single safe house for victims of violence in Papua shows that the state and society are not serious about addressing the problem of violence in the family. 99 BIA14 narrative. 100 MER15 narrative. 101 BIA21 and BIA22 narratives. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! 50
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Enough is Enough! Testimonies of Pa
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Page 18 and 19: Papua Province; Mama Agusthina Basi
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Page 22 and 23: III. FINDINGS In managing and analy
Page 24 and 25: Type of Violation Killing/ Enforced
Page 26 and 27: Biak District, 1967-69: Sexual Viol
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Page 30 and 31: Several Cases of Violence, Jayapura
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Page 38 and 39: Women Victims of the Operation in P
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Page 42 and 43: ER03, Mc MER10, Mj ER14, Mn MER02,
Page 44 and 45: Source: Komnas Perempuan, 2009 ENOU
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Page 48 and 49: Summary of Polygamy and Adultery Ca
Page 50 and 51: WAM04, Wd WAM11, Wl Wd had a custom
Page 52 and 53: After marrying in 2000, a wife hope
Page 54 and 55: 2.4. Domestic Violence and Economic
Page 58 and 59: Source: Komnas Perempuan, 2009.IV.
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Page 62 and 63: The National Commission to Eliminat
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Page 66 and 67: APPENDIX Documentation Working Team
Page 68 and 69: 6. Sondra Sidabutar (psychologist,
Page 70: 7. Solidarity of Caring Women (SPP;
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