Women as Victims of Violence in East Aceh (A Study about the Experience of Women through Feminist Perspective)

Abstract

This study deals with the experience of women victims of violence in the Period of Military Operations Area (DOM) in East Aceh through feminist perspective. The objective of this study is to analyze women subjected to violence during DOM in East Aceh, to analyze women receiving / understanding of violence in during DOM in East Aceh, and to analyze and describe the typology violence against women based on their experience. This study used a qualitative research method with a feminist case study approach. The research location is in East Aceh. Data collection techniques are interviews, observation, and documentation. Some findings from this study are generally the reason violence on women victims of conflict is seen from a feminist perspective are: (a) DOM by central government, (b) having a relationship with the Free Aceh Movement (c women functioned as a military as a tool to capture the opponent, and (d) patriarchy as a form of subjugation on women's sexuality. Furthermore, in the typology of violence experienced by women based on her experience of them, (a) physical violence, (b) sexual abuse, (c) psychological violence, (d) economic violence. Finally, the impact of violence experienced by women victims of conflict during the Military Operation Zone in East Aceh is: (a) the physical pain and psychological, (b) hatred of the abuser, (c) trauma even symptoms of psychiatric disorders. Some things do female victim namely, (a) following the rehabilitation reform back the mental / psychology, (b) married to an Acehnese as a survival strategy, (c) for women who have been traumatized married again, they go through life working in various places. In fact, the women claimed that they could never forget the experience of suffering.

Keywords: Aceh, women, experience, typology and impact of violence