UI Student Body Demands Rector Drop Out Perpetrators of Sexual Violence in Faculty of Law

Sixteen students from the Faculty of Law (FH) at Universitas Indonesia (UI) are alleged to have committed sexual violence against women in their campus environment. The actions of these dozen students went viral after being revealed by the X account @/sampahfhui. Based on gathered information, the case originated from the circulation on social media of conversations from a group chat involving 16 FH UI students. The content of those conversations included harassment and objectification of women, from students to lecturers in the faculty. In response to the case, the Alliance of Student Executive Boards (BEM) across UI has demanded a thorough investigation. The UI-wide BEM Alliance also requests central government accompaniment in overseeing the sexual violence case. Chair of BEM FH UI, Anandaku Dimas Rumi, stated that the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Kemendikti) must intervene directly in overseeing the case. This is deemed necessary to ensure the case is truly investigated to completion. “As the highest authority holder in education in Indonesia, the Minister of Higher Education must not remain silent! We demand the ministry intervene, so this case is not decided by campus bureaucracy,” he said while reading the UI-wide BEM Alliance’s statement at Pusgiwa UI on Tuesday (14/4/2026). He emphasised that the sexual violence case involving the 16 students must be free from internal interference. Considering that the perpetrators claim to have reliable backers. “Ensure the removal of internal interference. Ensure the legal process is clean from interference by any party, including the backing claims boasted by the perpetrators,” Dimas stated. He added that the UI-wide BEM Alliance also urges the UI Board of Professors to immediately hold an ethics hearing to try the 16 sexual violence perpetrators transparently and accountably. According to him, the UI Board of Professors must issue an official recommendation to the UI Rector to terminate the student status of the sexual violence perpetrators permanently or through drop out (DO). “We also demand that the UI Rector immediately issue a dismissal decree against the 16 sexual violence perpetrators as an implementation of Rector’s Regulation Number 5 of 2024,” he said. Not only that, the UI-wide BEM Alliance also demands that the UI Rector thoroughly investigate all sexual violence cases in the campus environment. This is because, to date, there are still sexual violence perpetrators who are freely roaming the campus, despite proven to have committed harassment or other sexual violence.