The monitoring results from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) show that there were 21 incidents of violence committed by members of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) against civilian women in Indonesia throughout October 2024-September 2025.
Of these cases, 7 were acts of assault. Additionally, there were 6 cases of sexual crimes, 5 cases of femicide, and 3 cases of intimidation.
For context, the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) defines femicide as the direct or indirect killing of women because the victim is a woman. Femicide is driven by superiority, domination, hegemony, aggression, and misogyny against women.
KontraS believes that the various forms of violence mentioned above can trigger femicide. Femicide by TNI members is also seen not merely as an individual issue in the domestic sphere or an intimate relationship between the perpetrator and the victim.
“The phenomenon of femicide by TNI members reflects how violence becomes a chosen solution for the TNI when facing issues involving women,” KontraS wrote in its report, Notes on the 80th TNI Day.
The patriarchal and masculine culture within the TNI is also considered to foster superiority among male soldiers towards women.
KontraS states that this culture has the potential to perpetuate gender injustice and place women as a group vulnerable to violence, including femicide by TNI members.
This data was compiled based on KontraS's monitoring of incidents of violence by the TNI, the formation of new TNI units across Indonesia, military court decisions, the deployment of TNI troops to Papua, and military intervention in civilian domains, including academia.
Data collection was further strengthened through documentation research published in mass media reports during October 2024-September 2025.