The law focuses on the prevention of sexual violence, more rights for victims and to acknowledge marital rape.

[3] The bill finally enacted by People's Representative Council on 12 April 2022, completed 8 years process of the legislation.

However, the plan finally was realized in 2014 after Joko Widodo came into presidency after the Komnas Perempuan reported the need for the formulation to him.

[9] Komnas Perempuan submitted the academic text of the PKS bill to the Indonesian People's Representative Council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, DPR) on May 13, 2016.

Deputy Chairperson of Commission VIII Marwan Dasopang said it was difficult to discuss the bill at this time because of the clash on the definition of sexual violence and the rules of punishment.

In its bill form, according to the Director of the Legal Aid Institute (Lembaga Bantuan Hukum, LBH) APIK, Veny Octarini Siregar, the RUU PKS covers everything from prevention, fulfillment of victims' rights, recovery of victims to regulating handling during the legal process.

[17] On December 8, 2018, people from various alliances held a grand parade demanding that the government immediately pass the PKS Bill.

The editor-in-chief of Jurnal Perempuan, Anita Dhewy, thinks that the ratification of the PKS Bill is urgent, especially after victims of sexual harassment in Indonesia have the courage to speak up after the emergence of the Me Too movement.

[20][21] The bill was rejected by Islamic hard-liners, claiming that the law is legalizing zina, pro-LGBT, and pro-abortion proponed by Maimon Herawati (a lecturer of Department of Journalism, Padjadjaran University) and Farah Qoonita (an Islamist woman activist and Instagram influencer).

[23] Despite misleading people with her own interpretation of the bill, Maimon insisted that her view is permissible by Indonesian democracy system.

[25][26][27] Mike Verawati, an Indonesian woman activist, stated that the party intention to include these acts are irrelevant with the law designed for.