Activists from a women’s anti-violence movement hold a banner reading “Eradicate sexual violence? There must be a way!” during a protest against sexual harassment and violence against women on campuses, outside the Education and Culture Ministry in Jakarta on Feb. 10, 2020. (AFP/Adek Berry)

Julia Suryakusuma (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Jakarta   ●   Wed, November 29, 2023

Whenever I am introduced to an Italian, my opening gambit is “I became a woman in Italy”. It sounds a bit titillating, but it only means I was there from the age of 13 to 16, a period normally associated with coming of age.

In Rome, where my parents were posted at the Indonesian Embassy, my growing awareness of being a budding young woman was heightened by so much male attention. Wanted or unwanted, I figured, there are worse places to become a woman!

However, a few days ago I read about huge demonstrations all across Italy on Saturday, related to the murder of a woman by her ex-boyfriend. Wow, this is so far removed from my experience in Rome, when cat-calls or wolf whistles, a daily part of my life in the Italian capital, were annoying but harmless.

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Thank you all for making me feel again, for making me – me again, making me grow and much more! And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, with tears in my eyes.

I will miss you, I will miss this beautiful place that felt like home because of you. Time to put all that learned from you in my daily life!
Till we meet again!

Namaste, Aum Svasti Astu
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