A crowd of housewivescarrying their children on their hips and on their backspacked the verandah of a house in Denai Kuala village in Deli Serdang regency, North Sumatra. One of them, Rahmawati, stood smack in the middle. She expounded on various acts of domestic violence popularly abbreviated to KDRT. She paused for a moment as Zaki, her two-year-old infant son, started to cry, demanding for milk. The 41-year-old woman drew a milk bottle from