5 Demands from UI BEM Alliance on Alleged Sexual Harassment Case
The Alliance of Student Executive Boards (BEM) across UI has responded to the alleged sexual harassment case involving students from the Faculty of Law at Universitas Indonesia (FH UI). The Alliance has issued a statement of position and five points of demand.
The Chair of BEM FH UI, Anandaku Dimas Rumi Chattaristo, stated that BEM UI and the Alliance of BEM across Universitas Indonesia, representing the UI Student Family Association (IKM) and all Indonesians who feel angry and humiliated by this case, are speaking out.
“Therefore, we demand concrete and radical firm actions,” Dimas said during the statement of position at the Student Activity Centre (Pusgiwa), UI Depok Campus, on Tuesday, 14 April 2026.
The Alliance is calling for central intervention and pressure through the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Kemendiktisaintek) as the highest authority on education in Indonesia.
“The Minister of Higher Education must not remain silent; we request that the ministry step in so that this case is not ‘put on ice’ by campus bureaucracy,” Dimas said.
Furthermore, the Alliance is asking Kemendikti to send a special team to examine the performance of the UI Sexual Violence Prevention and Handling Task Force (Satgas PPKS).
“Investigate why this case involving 16 students could happen and why many old cases remain pending without clarity,” he said.
According to them, this case serves as a harsh warning to UI, so the ministry must evaluate UI’s status as an educational institution for continuing to allow sexual predators to roam freely on campus without punishment.
“Eliminate insider interference, ensure the legal process is clean from any third-party involvement, including the ‘backing’ claims boasted by the perpetrators,” he stated.
Based on these issues, the UI-wide BEM Alliance has also formulated five demands: first, urging the UI Board of Professors (DGB) to immediately hold an ethics trial to judge the 16 perpetrators transparently and accountably.
“Second, urging the DGB UI to issue an official recommendation to the UI Rector to permanently terminate the student status of the perpetrators (Drop Out),” Dimas emphasised.
Third, demanding that the UI Rector immediately issue a permanent dismissal decree for the 16 perpetrators in accordance with Rector’s Regulation No. 5 of 2024.
Fourth, urging the UI Rector to thoroughly investigate all unresolved sexual violence cases at Universitas Indonesia to date.
“Fifth, freezing and revoking all organisations of the perpetrators within the entire IKM UI structure permanently,” Dimas said.