Pandangan Agama Terhadap Kekerasan Seksual Yang Dilakukan Oleh Pemuka Agama

Abstract

Sexual Harassment are insults,  or abuses caused by over dominate power and imbalance in gender, this could give psychological pressure to the victim.  Often times in many cases, sexual harassment was done by a certain leader of religion. Here we liked to find out on how religion’s laws view and act towards the phenomenon of sexual harassment, and what are the effects towards the victim.  A research method that is used here, is a qualitative descriptive method, which is a method that collects words or pictures, and it’s used to analyze a certain incident, phenomenon, or social situation.  The purpose of this method is to make a description, that  systematically, factually, precised with the characters and facts of a phenomenon that is currently being observed. In Islam, Al-Quran has shown that  men and women should be treated equally, and should never be  disrespected. In Hindu, sexual harassment can be categorized in  a public law that is called "kantaka shodhana". In Buddha, it view men and women as gender that should have an equality and it’s also explained how there’s no used in feeling guilty or making others felt guilty, because it will only make the situation worse.  Many cases of sexual harassment often comes from power abuse, leader of religion usually are the figures that is more respected by society because their religious and spiritual knowledge, unfortunately some of the figures used their power to sexually harassed someone. This just one of the examples of how sexual harassment could happen anywhere, anytime, to anyone and could also be done by anyone regardless their background. Although given this example, we should never overgeneralize or give a bad stereotype to the leader of religion.