{"id":18951,"date":"2017-08-15T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=18951"},"modified":"2017-08-15T19:44:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:44:33","slug":"press-release-from-sarawak-united-peoples-party-bintulu-branch-youth-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=18951","title":{"rendered":"PRESS RELEASE FROM SARAWAK UNITED PEOPLES’ PARTY BINTULU BRANCH YOUTH SECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Law needs to be updated from time to time to capture the change of the world. The Domestic Violence (Amendment Bill) 2017 has been passed by both Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara. We welcome the amendment as the context of the old statute which was enacted 1994 may seen to beoutdated. The thought and the view of the people on marriage has been different compared to 20 years ago. The women then will not even considering a divorce when they face the problem of domestic violence and they might not know their rights. Also, the law may not have been wide enough in protecting their rights. However, things has changed nowadays.<\/p>\n

The Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim has done a great job in putting effort in the amendment of this law that I believe all women would highly appreciate the amendments. This amendment is needed as it perfect the imperfections, to further enchance the protection on the victims, to fill up the weakness that arise from the previous Domestic Violence Law.<\/p>\n

Time has changed and what amount to domestic violence may has changed.\u00a0 The definition of Domestic Violence has been widen to the extend which include protecting the victim from being deprived of their property causing them to suffer distress as a result of financial loss, the fear inflicted on the safety of third party and insulting through electronic medium. The form of Domestic Violence has been changed and\u00a0 not only limited to only physical injury but the worst is the psychological, emotional and mental abuse which are silent injury.<\/p>\n

It is also a right thing to do so when we learned that the Social Welfare Department Officers were given the authority to issue the Emergency Protection Order(EPO). It reduces the bureaucracy. The Domestic Violence is immediate and danger and threat are immediate and the victims would urgently need immediate protection. Waiting for the court to issue Protection Order may cause delay in protecting the vicitim. By giving the authority to the Social Welfare, EPO can be done immediately after review.<\/p>\n

The Minister Datuk Rohani also mentioned that the victim will not be forced to go for the reconciallation proceedings which is one of the pre requirement before the divorce proceedings. This shows the flexibility should be done in accordance to the situation. As a previous practising lawyer who has been handling divorce cases, in my opinion, this reconciallation proceedings seem to be redundant nowadays as it became a mere formality for a divorce. The reconciallation proceeding does not really work out what it intended to. This is eapecially for those victims who had gone through tough time with the spouse.<\/p>\n

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BINTULU BRANCH YOUTH SECTION SECRETARY CUM POLITICAL SECRETARY TO YAB CM SARAWAK, Ms. SOO LICHING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Law needs to be updated from time to time to capture the change of the world. The Domestic Violence (Amendment Bill) 2017 has been passed by both Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara. We welcome the amendment as the context of the old statute which was enacted 1994 may seen to beoutdated. The thought and the view of the people on marriage has been different compared to 20 years ago. The women then will not even considering a divorce when they face the problem of domestic violence and they mightRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18952,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951\/revisions\/18952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}