<![CDATA[Femicide is generally understood as the gendered killing of women, in which men kill women because they are women. Gender differences in femicide highlight the necessity of paying close attention to the phenomenon of femicide perpetrated by intimate partners and the theories that can be utilized to comprehend this prevalent and persistent issue. Despite decades of efforts to combat violence against women, femicide continues to be a significant concern in Indonesia. The aim of this research is to develop an understanding of femicide in heterosexual partners in Indonesia. We use the qualitative method and radical feminism approach. In this article, we examine the basic tenets of radical feminism as a framework for comprehending and making sense of intimate partner femicide in Indonesia. This study analyzes femicide in Indonesia through the lens of radical feminist theory, which conceptualizes patriarchy as an institutionalized system of political power in which male domination over women’s bodies and lives constitutes the root of extreme gender-based violence. The analysis demonstrates that femicide in Indonesia cannot be understood merely as an individual act of crime, but rather as the most extreme manifestation of institutionalized patriarchy embedded within social, cultural, and state structures. The findings of this paper are that femicide in Indonesia continues to occur and is consistently reduced to an individual crime, as patriarchal power relations shape social, cultural, and political structures and prevent a holistic recognition of women’s embodied experiences.]]>
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