Chat Group of 16 UI Law Students "Basecamp Puri Asih" from Boarding House to Harassing Lecturers

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – A chat group comprising 16 students from the University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Law (UI), suspected of sexual harassment, began as a conversation group in a boarding house. The social media LINE conversation group was named “Basecamp Puri Asih”. One member of the chat group, who is also a perpetrator, leaked the information to the victims. “Initially, one of the group members, for some reason, ended up leaking that information to the victims,” said the victims’ lawyer, Timotius Rajagukguk, when met at the UI campus in Depok. However, he did not explain the reason why the perpetrator leaked the contents of the conversation in the group. The victims of the alleged sexual harassment by the 16 UI Faculty of Law students number 27 people, consisting of 20 female students and seven lecturers. All victims, both female students and educators, come from the FH UI environment. “The victims I represent number 20 people. That’s just the ones I represent, all students. From the lecturer side, the last I heard there are seven people,” said Timotius Rajagukguk. “And there are still many other victims who may not even know they are being talked about,” revealed Timotius Rajagukguk. The Indonesian Education Monitoring Network (JPPI) considers the alleged sexual harassment at the University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Law to be a very fatal matter. “In my opinion, what is very fatal is that this happened on campus, especially in the Faculty of Law, which should be legally aware,” said JPPI National Coordinator, Ubaid Matraji, when contacted. Ubaid assessed that the phenomenon shows that the perpetrators, who study law, do not understand the substance and consequences of their actions.