Hermina Mawa will never forget what happened on April 12, 2018. That day, she was strangled by a policewoman when protesting the eviction of her customary village, Rendu Butowe, in Nagekeo Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), to be turned into the planned Lambo Reservoir.

The incident was almost repeated on Thursday, December 9, just one day before the end of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence campaign. “The polic