Fenomena Street Harassment sebagai Salah Satu Bentuk Gender Based Violence pada Mahasiswa Rantau di Kelurahan Padang Bulan

Abstract

The phenomenon of street harassment is a form of sexual harassment that occurs in everyday life. Street harassment is an act of sexual harassment in public spaces, such as commenting with sexual meaning or physical touching on body parts that the victim does not like. Street harassment can happen to anyone and anytime, one of the victims who often experience it is students. This study aims to find out how the experience of informants who experience street harassment, triggers and the impact of street harassment for informants. The method used is a qualitative method with a phenomenological study. The data collection used is an in-depth interview with research informants, namely four overseas students who are in Padang Bulan Village and have experienced street harassment. The results of this study found that all informants had experienced street harassment in various forms such as catcalling, whistling, winking, comments on appearance and body shape, to physical touch on private parts while in public spaces in the Padang Bulan neighborhood. According to informants, the trigger for street harassment is due to male biological factors and a patriarchal culture that causes gender injustice. The impacts felt by informants as victims include feeling shocked and afraid, feeling unsafe when in public spaces, limited daily activities and the most serious impact is physical harassment which causes lasting trauma, as well as other impacts that will be discussed further in this study. Suggestions that can be given are for students in Padang Bulan Village to always take care of themselves because acts of violence and harassment can occur anywhere and anytime, avoid vulnerable times and reprimand the perpetrators of street harassment so that not more of these phenomena occur and are experienced by others