This book is dedicated to all the women especially  who subjected a violence to show their strength to stop the violence.  

    As everyone knows, violence against women nowadays recognized as a public problem and become a hot society issue. Violence against women is become a serious problem because it concerns to human rights and gender equality. In this case, women received unequal treatment. It is because for some people considered that women are lower and weaker than men. Actually, violence against women happens because they do not have a strength to speak up and defend themselves. Therefore, women as easy to get a violence that affect to their mental and physical. In Indonesia violence against women commonly happens and sometimes become a habit. Based on study in Singapore, Indonesia become the most unsafe country for women number two in Asia Pacific area. Therefore, violence against women in Indonesia should be resolved because it make women expressing a physical abuse, make women have a post-traumatic stress disorder, and make women feel useless.

     The first reason is violence against women make women expressing a physical abuse. It has been argued that doing a physical abuse to women is normal to make them feel deterred. Actually, that is totally wrong. Every woman’s fault cannot be solved by giving a physical abuse. According to World Health Organization (2014) globally about 1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner violence in their lifetime. Based on the data, that means no one can guarantee to protect women from a violence. Other than that, physical abuse also causes a serious impact even a chronic physical impact in long term physical disabilities even cause a death. Therefore, violence against women should be resolved to help women feel safe from a physical abuse in their life.

    The second reason is violence against women makes women have a long term post-traumatic stress disorder. Many people said that giving violence to women does not affect a long term traumatic. In fact, that argument is wrong. Violence against women will become a deep traumatic incident dan make women have a depression. According to American Psychiatric Association (2013) Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop in some people after expressing a traumatic event, including experience with intimate partner violence (IPV). That traumatic will make women to have unstable emotions and damage their mental health. The traumatic will detect women’s brains flash back to the incident and make women feel anxious for everything. Then, it also caused women have worst moods swing in their daily life. Therefore, violence against women must be resolved to help women recover from a long-term traumatic and have a healthy mental health.