“It disgusts me. I want to vomit,” she said.
The 41-year-old devout Muslim and mother-of-three recalls in tears how her boss, a principal at the school where she worked as a bookkeeper, would call her into his office and the harassment would begin.
“I would tell him to stop. I don’t want to listen to that,” Nuril told CNN from her home on the Indonesian island of Lombok. “I was scared if I spoke out he would fire me. He knew he had the power.”
It got so bad that Nuril recorded one of the explicit phone calls as evidence of the sexual harassment she said she endured on more than 50 occasions, starting in 2012.
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The recording, she says, was forwarded by a colleague to the local Department of Education. Shortly after, Nuril was fired from her job and her boss sued her for defamation.
Nuril — who says she put up with the sexual harassment for more than a year — spent two months in jail during the initial investigation in 2017.
A district court found her not guilty in 2017 but prosecutors launched an appeal with the nation’s highest court, which ruled last year that the recording broke the country’s Law on Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE). All internet activities in Indonesia are regulated under the law, which makes it a criminal offense for a person to distribute or transmit electronic information or documents that violate decency.
Source: She recorded her boss’s alleged sexual harassment — and was jailed for it
