Jakarta – Research by the Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) reveals that violence against women is on the increase in Jakarta.

IPW chairman Neta S. Pane said the conclusion of the research was due to 17 murders from January to March in which the victims were all young women. He added that of the 17 murder cases, 11 of them involved the wanton dumping of women's bodies on roads.

"Jakarta is becoming increasingly unsafe for women, judging by the fact that they have been the main victims in 17 murders over the past three months," Neta said in an IPW press release on Monday.

Neta said most of the murders happened in Bekasi, West Java, with six cases over the past three months. He added that 12 cases involved women aged 14 to 25, while five cases involved women aged 30 to 51. "The motives behind these murders varied, including economic problems to trivial relationship problems, such as rejection," Neta said.

He added that nine of the 17 cases had not yet been solved by the Jakarta Police and the perpetrators were still at large. "When meeting someone, it's best not to go alone. A number of these cases happened after the woman met the perpetrator unaccompanied," Neta said.

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/04/01/jakarta-increasingly-unsafe-women-ipw.html