Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women revealed on Thursday that this year saw more than 105,000 cases of violence against women.

Commissioner Neng Dara Affiah said that 96 percent of the cases were related to domestic violence.

She particularly highlighted several rape cases in public minivans, which have recently happened in Jakarta, and called upon the government to pay greater attention to such cases.

She said that it was hard to empower women amid the high number of violent cases against them. "The requirement to empower women is to make them free from violence in any form," she said.

In regards to Mothers' Day, which falls on Thursday, Dara hoped that people would pay more respect to women so that they were free from physical, mental, economic and sexual violence.