[ti:Jakarta Student Rape Puts Spotlight on Indonesian Sex Abuse]
[ar:Jerilyn Watson]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]From VOA Learning English,
[00:02.51]this is the Education Report.
[00:05.73]The reported rape of a six-year-old student
[00:09.43]at a well known school in Jakarta
[00:11.85]has received widespread media attention in Indonesia.
[00:16.95]The costly Jakarta International School,
[00:20.50]or JSI serves many children of diplomats
[00:24.82]and wealthy foreign families.
[00:27.59]Indonesian police have arrested several suspects
[00:31.87]in connection with the incident reported in early April.
[00:35.62]Similar reports of sexual abuse at the school have followed.
[00:40.82]Recently, another kindergarten student also said
[00:45.33]he was abused at the school.
[00:47.09]The education ministry ordered the school's kindergarten closed,
[00:52.43]the ministry said the kindergarten
[00:55.08]have been operating without permission.
[00:57.57]Years ago, American investigators named a former JSI teacher
[01:03.68]as one of the worst child sex offenders they have ever identified.
[01:09.00]American William James Vahey worked at the school from 1992 until 2002.
[01:16.83]He killed himself last month after U.S. Federal investigators
[01:21.93]seize some of the man's computer records.
[01:25.06]This evidence included 90 photographs of boys he reportedly abused.
[01:31.15]Tim Carr heads the Jakarta International School.
[01:36.55]He described the recent incident at the school as an unimaginable tragedy.
[01:43.04]He said the school is taking all measures to prevent another.
[01:47.39]"We have been cooperating very closely with the police as well,
[01:52.56]to make sure that the perpetrators are found and justice is done.
[01:58.57]We also have been focusing resolutely on the safety
[02:05.92]and security of our campus to make sure
[02:07.80]that we have done everything possible
[02:10.53]to make sure this horrendous event never occurs again," said Carr.
[02:14.58]Indonesian media reports about sex abuse cases often,
[02:20.17]but the cases rarely get such widespread attention.
[02:24.73]In the last week of April,
[02:26.55]a police officer was accused of raping five children in Aceh province.
[02:31.72]And a father in Medan province faces charges of raping his baby daughter.
[02:37.63]The number of reported rapes is increasing inIndonesia.
[02:41.92]But child psychologist Seto Mulyadi says
[02:50.32]many more sexual violations happened than are reported.
[02:55.09]Last year, the Indonesian Child Protection Commission
[02:59.24]declared child rape a "national emergency,"
[03:02.81]but it said, it does not have dependable numbers on rape.
[03:07.51]The commission says, without these numbers,
[03:10.22]it is hard to know the true extent of child sexual abuse.
[03:14.68]Victims are often afraid to talk about sexual attacks,
[03:18.91]they fear it will dishonor their families.
[03:22.16]A large part of Indonesian society
[03:26.24]considers it offensive to talk of sex and sexual abuse.
[03:31.37]And that's the VOA Learning English Education Report.
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[03:45.71]I'm Jerilyn Watson.
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