‘Stand firm against sexual violence’

Education, Culture, Research and Technology Minister Nadiem Makarim has defended a regulation he recently signed aimed at tackling sexual violence at universities following pushback from certain groups, which have called for the revocation of the regulation over concerns that it could imply legalisation of extramarital sex.

Speaking in a webinar, Nadiem explained that the regulation was issued only to tackle and prevent cases of sexual violence in the country’s higher education institutions and rejected the critics’ interpretation that it legalised consensual extramarital sex.