Terror Calls from a Child Predator

The Nurulhuda Pesantren in Garut stands by students who became victims of sexual violence. They include gender equality and sexual violence issues in the curriculum.

Hussein Abri Dongoran

April 28, 2022

THE management of Nurulhuda Pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Cisurupan subdistrict of Garut Regency, West Java, received a phone call from an unknown caller not long after Dita—not her real name—enrolled in mid-2020. The caller, a man, demanded the school to expel Dita, threatening to post the student’s naked photos to social media otherwise. The pesantren’s teacher and administrator, Ernawati Siti Syaja’ah, kn

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