KemenPPPA Ensures Persecutors Of High School Students In Tasikmalaya Are Not Children Of Ministry Of Education And Culture Officials

Deputy for Special Protection for Children of the Ministry of PPPA Nahar. (ANTARA/HO-Kemen PPPA)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection said that the perpetrator of violence against a student in Tasikmalaya, West Java, was not the son of an official at the Ministry of Education and Culture.

"Regarding the alleged perpetrator is the son of a ministry official in Jakarta, we have coordinated and confirmed that according to the results of clarification with related parties, it confirms that the news is wrong," said Deputy for Child Protection at the Ministry of PPPA Nahar, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, May 25.

However, KemenPPPA hopes that this case can still be processed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and pay attention to the best interests of children, both children as victims, children as witnesses, and children as perpetrators.

"To commit violence against children is threatened with criminal sanctions as regulated in Article 80 of Law 35 of 2014 concerning Amendments to Law 23 of 2002 concerning Child Protection. If the perpetrator is a child, then the legal process will be carried out according to the mechanism of Law Number 11 of 2012 concerning the Child Criminal Justice System," said Nahar.