His move followed a number of high-profile crimes in the Pacific nation, including the gang-rape of a US academic in April.
The brutal gang-rape and death of a 23-year-old female medical student in India has prompted outrage and horror around the world.
And the ripples from the Delhi gang-rape case haven't petered out yet.
Mrs Gandhi has also appealed to her party colleagues and well-wishers not "to extend New Year greetings in the wake of gang-rape incident".
Lawmakers have also approved legislation allowing the death penalty to be applied to aggravated rape - gang-rape, the use of a weapon, or rape of a child - and armed robbery, PNG's The National reported.
Rishi Kant says there is a need for fast-track courts - like the court being used to try the suspects in the latest gang-rape case - to prosecute perpetrators, and make it more difficult for them to get out on bail.
In the video, recorded in her London home, Ms Shankar, 31, appealed for people to support the campaign in memory of the 23-year-old gang rape victim.
Mr. Anand wasn't present Tuesday at the special fast-track court where proceedings resumed briefly for the four surviving men accused in the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in December.
Neat stacks of medical text books, a sharply-designed carrier bag from a clothes store, an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family.
The flare-up around violence and attitudes toward women in Indonesia comes amid global outrage over the brutal gang rape and death of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus.
India is strengthening the law following widespread public demand after the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi in December.
India is strengthening its laws following widespread public demand after the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi in December.
Police in a suburb of the Indian capital, Delhi, have arrested two men in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 19-year-old girl on Saturday.
Earlier, in October, a French prosecutor dropped an investigation connecting Strauss-Kahn to a possible gang rape in Washington.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has condemned the gang rape and mutilation of a 17-year-old girl who later died.
Most Indian news TV channels and websites are giving wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Delhi gang rape accused Ram Singh in the capital's Tihar jail.
He recently headed a government-appointed panel to recommend legal reform and other ways to reduce sexual violence after the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi in December.
One of them, 33-year-old Jose Medellin, is scheduled for execution in less than three weeks for his part in the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in 1993.
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