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    "data": {
        "id": 1707790,
        "msgid": "the-risks-of-being-a-man-1777445561",
        "date": "2026-04-29 11:36:00",
        "title": "The Risks of Being a Man!",
        "author": "Ferril Dennys",
        "source": "KOMPAS",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "The column critiques a proposal by Minister Arifah Fauzi to relocate women's-only carriages to the middle of trains for enhanced safety, arguing that while technically rational, it undermines the principle of universal protection in public transportation. By allocating safer positions based on gender, the policy shifts from reducing overall risks to redistributing them, implicitly increasing danger for male passengers and creating segmented safety standards. This approach risks blurring the foundational equity in public safety policies, as highlighted by the recent Bekasi train accident.",
        "content": "<p>\u201cEvery passenger, regardless of social category, is entitled to the\nsame level of protection!\u201d This principle should serve as the\nunshakeable foundation in public transportation safety. Simple, indeed,\nbut it can determine the direction of policy. The state is obligated to\nreduce risks for everyone, not just to regulate who is more protected\nand who is more exposed. The proposal to move women\u2019s special carriages\nto the middle of the train, put forward by the Minister of Women\u2019s\nEmpowerment and Child Protection, Arifah Fauzi, arises from legitimate\nconcerns. The train accident in Bekasi opened eyes to the fact that the\nposition of the carriage affects the level of risk. Technically, the\nmiddle carriage is indeed relatively safer compared to the front or\nrear. From this perspective, the idea appears rational. However, public\npolicy is not only evaluated based on technical rationality, but also on\nthe underlying principle of justice, is it not? When the women\u2019s\ncarriage is proposed to be moved to the middle, safety is no longer\nunderstood as universal protection, but as protection allocated based on\nsocial categories\u2014in this case, gender. This change may seem small, but\nits implications are significant. We are shifting from a paradigm of\noverall risk reduction to a paradigm of risk distribution among groups.\nThe risk of accidents is not truly eliminated. It is merely transferred.\nWomen are placed in a safer zone, while men implicitly fill zones with\nhigher levels of danger. In practice, this creates a safety segmentation\nthat did not exist before. Such an approach seems to have the potential\nto obscure the principle of justice in public safety.<\/p>",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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