UNS — A team of Student Community Service Program (KKN) Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta held a workshop on sex education. The workshop was held under the theme of ‘Are Early Sex Education and HIV AIDS Explanation Important?’ The workshop was held under the supervision of the team’s field supervisor, Prof. Venty Suryanti, and in collaboration with Karang Taruna Tipes, Center for Adolescence Information and Counseling (PIK-R) Tipes, and Tipes Children Forum.
The workshop was held offline on Wednesday (9/2/2022) under a strict health protocol in Tipes Village Hall’s Pendopo, Serengan, Surakarta, and was opened with material on teen’s reproduction, health risky sexual activities, sexual violence, effects of child marriage, and transmitted sexual disease. These materials were shared by Nurcahaya Sihombing as Family Planning Field Extension (PLKB) Tipes and staff of the National Population and Family Planning Unit (BKKBN). Nurcahya also stated that the workshop theme is appropriate because it discussed sexual violence among teens that previously was limited to adults and parents’ discussion. “Hopefully, in this event, KKN students and participants could share their knowledge and experiences,” she stated.
She also explained that risky sexual behaviors are sexual behavior that could bring negative impacts such as unwanted pregnancies, abortus, and sexually transmitted infections. Such activities also could lead to abortion, child marriage, hemorrhagic, infection, infertility, disability in babies, infant mortality, maternal mortality, or mother-baby mortality. In terms of sexual violence, there are 15 types of sexual violence explained by Nurcahaya according to the National Committee (Komnas) Anti-Violence Against Woman: rape, sexual intimidation (including rape attempt or threat), sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, women trafficking for sexual purposes, forced prostitution, forced marriage, and inconclusive divorce.
“Forced pregnancies, forced abortion, forced contraception and sterilization, sexual abuse, inhumane and sexual punishment, sexual traditional practices that harm or discriminate women, sexual control, including through discriminative regulation under morality or religious reasons, are also included into 15 sexual violence types,” she added.
After the material discussion, the event was followed by roleplay games that asked participants to provide their opinion on sexual violence cases. The case discussed in the workshop was NW, who took her own life in her father’s grave. Each group was asked to provide their view from men, women, and parents’ points of view. Participants’ opinions ranged from those supporting the victim, those asking people despite their gender to take care, and alternative solutions for the issue. Nurcahaya acted as mediator, Maria Sthefanny Putri Dewanty, from Indonesian Language and Literature, and Rahkyan Shola Muhammad, Chief of PIK-R Tipes acted as moderator.
Luthfi Mursih Darmawan as the team leader of the KKN team hoped that the program to benefit the participants and provide means of sharing topics that are considered taboo in the community through the social engineering program. “Hopefully, all participants could share their opinion and respond to others’ opinion,” he added. Humas UNS
Reporter: Bayu Aji Prasetya
Editor: Dwi Hastuti