Jakarta – The Federation of Indonesian Teachers Associations (FSGI) stated that schools need to form an unique job force, whose members consist of instructors, trainees, and parents, to prevent and handle bullying at school.
The statement was made by FSGI’s Secretary General Heru Purnomo on Sunday in response to the case of a 13- year-old trainee determined by the preliminary R who torched his school building due to being bullied by his friends.
In a statement on Sunday, he kept in mind that the formation of the job force is in accordance with the Education, Culture, Research Study, and Technology Minister’s Policy (Permendikbud) Number 82 of 2015 on the Prevention and Handling of Acts of Violence in Educational Institutions.
Purnomo assessed that it is necessary to develop a complaint system for protecting victims and witnesses. In managing the cases, psychologists from associated agencies get involved to prevent the perpetrators from duplicating their acts of physical and spoken violence.
” Unfortunately, the development of the job force and problem system mandated by Permendikbud 82/2015 has actually not widely been implemented at schools,” he said.
He stressed that the schools are strictly restricted from neglecting reports of bullying experienced by trainees due to the fact that, in R’s case, when the school was questioned by numerous celebrations, it appeared that the school did not understand the bullying victim’s psychological condition.
He stated R confessed to have actually earlier made a problem to the school relating to the whippings he experienced however the school only summoned the perpetrators and did not provide any penalty.
” Hence, the criminals did not get a deterrent impact, and continued to bully,” he included.
Based upon information put together by FSGI from January to June 2023, there are 12 cases of bullying in educational institutions, and eight of them have been taken to a legal process.
He condemned all types of violence in educational institutions, including those devoted on the basis of discipline.
Purnomo said that avoiding violence versus children can be performed through cooperation between schools and moms and dads.
He likewise motivated moms and dads to carry out favorable parenting since children who are raised with extreme parenting have the possible to do violence to their peers as an outlet for their anger and hurt brought on by the violence they experienced from their member of the family.
Moms and dads need to likewise educate their children to have the guts to speak out if they come down with the acts of violence at schools.
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