Jakarta – Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Linda Amalia Sari and National Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo signed Friday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on gender mainstreaming and improvement of service for abused women and children.

The agreement focused on issues related to violence against women and children, dissemination of gender mainstreaming and gender awareness inside the police institution and the establishment of women and children units in police district offices.

Linda said that the police institution, as a law enforcing body, was among the strategic partners of her ministry in alleviating children and gender-based cases of abuse.

"We still face the violence against women and children, including such cases in public spaces, in the workforce or inside families," she said. "I encourage women to report abuse they have endured to the police. I put high hopes that the police will provide fast and fair legal service," she said.

Timur promised that his institution would take cases of violence against women and children seriously. "We will follow up the reports on domestic violence and child abuse," he said.