The Sexual Abuse Problems of Children at Bandung Regency, West Java

Abstract

The issue of sexual abuse of children today is quite alarming. Many cases occur, not only at the big city but also small, including one regency in West Java, Bandung Regency. Several sexual cases of abuse of children cases in this area are quite heaps. In the last four years, cases noted less 100 cases, with variations in terms of detail aspects. This research was to find out: 1). The picture of sexually abused cases at Bandung Regency; 2). The causes of the high incidence of sexual abuse 3). How to handle this problem. This research used descriptive quantitative method, with questioner and documentation studies used to collect data of 25 victims of sexually abused throughout the area. The results were quite surprisingly: Mostly the victims knew the perpetrators quite well. The most common form of sexual abused is sexual relations (63%). Some of them happened until three times means that this kind of inappropriate behaviour was repeated. Interestingly, sexual abused of children mostly were done at home of victims. Of course when the parents (particularly mother) were not at home. Some of the victim’s mothers are migrant workers, who indeed absence at home. Meanwhile, social control from neighbours’ seems very weak. Unavoidable, problem solving of that kind of cases must be done more seriously from cross institutions and professionals.

 Keywords: sexual abuse, children, victims and perpetrators