Weak position of women and patriarchal cultural factors lead women in a
society prone to become victims of sexual crime. One type of sexual crime that
often occurs in women is rape. Rape does not only result in long-term suffering
for the victims but also their human rights violated. The purpose of writing this
law is to determine and analyze why rape victims need to obtain any form of
protection and safeguards that can be given to victims of rape. This research is a
normative legal research, this research using secondary data as the main data and
primary data as supporting data. The results of this research are: (1) The victim
suffered multiple rape include physical, psychological, and social, and therefore
victims of rape victims in need of protection so that in spite of all his suffering. (2)
The protective measures that can be given to victims of rape is a form of
protection provided by the Act No. 13 of 2006 in the form of restitution and
medical and psycho-social assistance.