Domestic Violence Against Woman In Helvy Tiana Rosa’s A Meeting In A Silent Garden
Chapter I is Introduction which consists of some sub-chapters. They are background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, statements of the problem, objectives of the study, significance of the study, and the outline of the study.
1.1 Background of the Study
In this modern era, when everyone lives with their right, where there are a lot of women’s movements, we still can find dependent women that are trapped under man’s authority. Some call it as patriarchy, actually these kinds of case have many causes not only patriarchy. Still people assumed that patriarchy is the main factor of it. Here are some examples of domestic violence:
Bima, NTB. A teacher tortured his wife because his wife forbad him to do polygamy. Mujnah, the wife, reported her husband behavior to the local police department. Police had caught Mujnah’s husband and sentenced him 5 years in jail. The cause of domestic violence in this case is quite simple; it is just a problem of self control of the husband’s passion. In other words, it just because one reason, troubles never end.
(Reportase Pagi/ Trans TV, August 8, 2008; 05.55 a.m.)
Bogor, West Java. Nur Aini (19) is mentally disturbed in 7 month pregnancy. She confessed that she was treated badly by his husband. She got hits and her head was collided to the wall of the bathroom. She reported this case to the local police department two months ago but the police has not taken any action while no one knows where Nur Aini’s husband is. Unfortunately it did not mention why it happened.
(Reportase Pagi/ Trans TV, August 8, 2008; 05.55 a.m.)
Pasuruan, East Java. An old man raped an under age girl. He did it 17 times in 3 months. He treated will kill her if she reported what had he done to her. And he did it when the girl’s parents went to the market. This poor little girl depressed, she shamed and would not go to the school. And the old man was threatened by jail punishment for more than 5 years.
(Reportase Pagi/ Trans TV, August 8, 2008; 05.55 a.m.)
Magelang, Central Java. There were three women, victims of domestic violence, were saved in a safe house of the government of Magelang. Because the violence almost took their life and the victims have no place to go, this action was taken. Some because their family would not receive them and some have no relative in that town. Sahabat Perempuan (Woman Friend of Magelang) had received 68 cases in November 2007 (Kompas, 2007).
Up to 2006, LBH APIK, a Legal Aid Association, had received 3682 cases of domestic violence (Good Morning/ Trans TV, July 15, 2008; 08.53 a.m.).
Those cases above are concerning us. When we had got our rights and independence, some of us could not enjoy it.
In the past, in almost all over the world, people thought that women were the most contemptible creature that had nothing to do except took care domestic things. In some other places’ history women were even treated worse than that. And these are some of the cases:
In 500s C. in the Middle East, having a daughter was a shameful thing so that they buried alive their female infant before someone else knew it. They did this because they considered that a daughter was weak, and could not go for war. And Umar bin Khattab did this to his daughter before he became a muslim and he regretted it during his live. “I was crying when I dig for my daughter. She came forward and then combed my beard.” (http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Bin_Khattab). He was not out of control at that time, but he was ordered by the custom. There was belief said that daughter was a shameful which brought nothing in good.
In India is different, the case in India is about the under age bride. There were a lot of under age women or girls were taken to be a bride, pushed to take care the house and got bad treat from their husbands. Even Gandhi often mentioned his concerned about this problem in his speeches. “Just a man with no feeling who can say that marry under-aged girls is not a sin.” (Gandhi, 2002: 64). The case of the under age bride was very common in India. At present the movement of women in that country is increasing, but there is still small number of the same case based on the custom. Because parents in India worried if their daughter could not pay for the groom, so that if there any man who interested to their daughter and received whatever the parents paid him then the daughter will be pushed to marry him. And the bride’s age is often under 15 years old.
But in the middle of the chaos above, some ancients Egypt history mentioned that goddesses had higher position than god which reflected that there was a glory for woman at that time, before patriarchy came. Egyptian was praying to the goddess of Justice, Maat.
Old Egyptian women had a high position on earth and sky, and it was continued by their children. At that time, the goddess of justice is a woman and her name was Maat. (Nawal Al-Sadawi, 2002:11)
It proved that there was a time where woman was respected by the society.
When the time goes by, women were fighting to get their right and freedom. And women’s rights are protected under the law. Although woman’s right and freedom is under undoubted law, we still can find domestic violence happened around us, which the victims are dominated by women and children. These two creatures, women and children, are often considered as weak creatures, so that they become the victims of violence which is happened in a household.
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