Experts say rapes can be engineered<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Medical experts agreed at a meeting on Friday
\nthat rapes were usually not sexually motivated and could be
\nengineered by an organized group.<\/p>\n
\"Sex is not the primary factor in rape, particularly in mass
\nrapes,\" Wimpie Pangkahila, an andrology and sexology expert,
\nsaid, adding that known rape victims have been recorded to be as
\nyoung as 5 months and as old as 90 years.<\/p>\n
\"And it can spontaneously happen under conducive conditions,
\nor it can be engineered by a group with certain motives.\"<\/p>\n
In most rape cases, \"expression of power or anger is more
\ndominant, while sexual urge is secondary\", he said.<\/p>\n
Wimpie presented a study, Mass Rapes: a Bio-medical Review, at
\na public dialog held by the Civil Society on Violence against
\nWomen. Other speakers were noted psychiatrist Dadang Hawari and
\nsexologist Naek L. Tobing.<\/p>\n
Wimpie, a lecturer at Udayana University in Bali, defined rape
\nas a pseudo-sexual act \"which is more related to status,
\naggression, control and domination, rather than pleasure or
\nsexual satisfaction.\"<\/p>\n
Some drugs can stimulate people's aggressive sexual behavior
\nas well, he said, refusing to identify the drugs because of
\nmedical ethics.<\/p>\n
Dadang, a former president of the Indonesian Psychiatric
\nAssociation, noted that people committing rape during the May
\nriots in Jakarta and other cities in the country could possibly
\nhave been under the influence of certain drugs.<\/p>\n
\"Under certain medicines, people act like robots. They do
\nwhatever they are told to do, including saying Allahu Akbar (God
\nis Great) before raping,\" Dadang said, referring to controversial
\nreports of a victim quoting her rapists.<\/p>\n
There could have been parties, he argued, who intended to
\ndiscredit Moslems by victimizing Chinese-Indonesians.<\/p>\n
Dadang cited a statement by activist Yeni Rosa Damayanti, who
\nhad told the forum that she had recently gained information of
\ncivilians trained to instigate riots in East Timor.<\/p>\n
Mass rapes occur in war or war-like situations, Dadang said,
\nadding that while he believed the reports of mass rapes during
\nthe May riots, the scale could not have been like that in Bosnia,
\nfor instance.<\/p>\n
What happened in May, he said, \"was created to look like a war
\nzone.\"<\/p>\n
In his paper, Wimpie cited the occurrence of mass rapes in
\nseveral countries, all in war situations.<\/p>\n
The experts expressed concern about authorities' statements
\ndenying the reported rapes during the May riots. Dadang demanded
\nthat officials should instead ensure the safety of the victims
\nand all parties linked to the investigation.<\/p>\n
The experts said the police's approach in its rape
\ninvestigations had ignored the psychological impacts the victims
\nwere suffering. They, however, echoed earlier concerns voiced by
\nmembers of the government-appointed fact-finding team
\ninvestigating the riots on the need of evidence.<\/p>\n
Wimpie said it was hard to prove rape given the definition of
\nthe crime in the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n
The definition stipulates violent penetration, implying that
\nsperm is needed as evidence. He said, however, that sperm was not
\nalways present in victims.<\/p>\n
\"The absence of sperm could be caused by premature or
\ninterrupted ejaculation. And it is possible that rape happens
\nwithout penetration,\" he said. Dadang urged the law be amended to
\nprovide a clearer definition of rape.<\/p>\n
A source requiring anonymity told the forum of threats to
\ndoctors dealing with victims. He said the harassment, which
\nincluded death threats, were targeted at doctors' families and
\nthe rape victims. (01)<\/p>",
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