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Article snippet: JAKARTA, Indonesia — Tunggal Pawestri says she’ll never forget being groped on a public bus while traveling to her high school in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, when she was 14. While Ms. Tunggal had become used to enduring daily harassment on her way to and from classes — mostly catcalls and sexually suggestive looks and comments — when a man suddenly began gyrating against her from behind, she said, “I froze.” “I didn’t know what to do — I didn’t even know that I should have screamed,” said Ms. Tunggal, who now works for a women’s organization. Two decades after that disturbing episode, a growing number of activist groups and volunteers like Ms. Tunggal are emerging to explain exactly what to do: expose the longstanding problem of harassment on roads, sidewalks, trains and buses across Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous nation. “It’s an epidemic, and, unfortunately, at the moment, Indonesia has no legal protection for sexual harassment,” said Yuniyanti Chuzaifah, vice chairwoman of the National Commission on Violence Against Women, who said she was once groped after falling asleep on a public bus. “Women have to be brave to report it, and the police services here are not friendly toward victims,” she said. “There’s a lot of victim-blaming, like it is their own fault.” According to the women’s commission, only 268 street harassment reports were filed last year with the police, nongovernmental organizations or the commission itself across a nation of m... Link to the full article to read more