Discourse On Limiting Violence Content Access Students, Pramono: Still Under Study
JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung explained that his plan to limit school students' access to violent content on social media is still at the initial study stage.
The DKI Provincial Government, said Pramono, is still collecting input from various child protection agencies to experts to ensure policies formulated effectively to overcome cases of violence, bullying and crime in schools.
"Now it's being investigated. Yesterday, I also received KPAI and also related institutions. Indeed, I want to discuss this, of course, it must be deep. It must be substantially, in depth, able to overcome the existing problems," said Pramono at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Wednesday, November 19.
According to Pramono, this discourse arises in line with the policy trend in a number of countries that have begun to apply age limits in the use of social media. Access to digital content, which is now very open, requires the government to regulate negative impact mitigation for students.
"Because now the trend in developed countries is starting to have age restrictions that can see social media. Because the social media is so open. But once again, we will study it more deeply, and for that later we will definitely convey it," he said.
Furthermore, Pramono also instructed the Education Office to cooperate with related ranks to strengthen counseling services and formulate steps that can reduce the bullying rate in Jakarta schools.
"As for the bullying mechanism in the school environment in DKI Jakarta, I have asked the Education Office to cooperate with the relevant ranks, especially for counseling, to formulate that bullying should not happen again in the Jakarta area," he said.
Pramono also ensured that the Provincial Government would apply sanctions for perpetrators of violations and enforce the rules consistently. According to him, prevention of bullying must go hand in hand with the enforcement of legal mechanisms in order to provide a deterrent effect.
"For anyone who later commits a violation, of course there will be a mechanism for that. And I really want that bullying or bullying does not occur in Jakarta," he added.
Previously, Pramono revealed that the Education Office was formulating a policy to limit student access to digital content that could encourage dangerous actions. This is the aftermath of the bomb explosion case at SMA Negeri 72 Jakarta which occurred on 7 November.
"Now it is being formulated by the Education Office so that not all children easily see events or events like those on YouTube which then inspire our children to do what happened in SMA 72," said Pramono, Tuesday, November 18.