Jakarta – Mitra Perempuan Women's Crisis Center reported Tuesday that 275 women came forward as victims of domestic violence this year. The women who had lodged their complaints with the NGO came from various walks of life, including career women and homemakers.

"As many as 5.82 percent of the total number of victims were below the age of 18," Mitra Perempuan chairwoman Rita Serena Kalibonso said, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

Kalibonso added that most of the perpetrators were spouses at 76.98 percent and former husbands at 6.12 percent. The rest were reported to have been parents, children, siblings, boyfriends and colleagues.