Central Java Governor Ahmad Luthfi said his local government prefers to follow the applicable legal rules in disciplining students who are considered problematic rather than pursuing a military-style character education scheme at the TNI barracks. The plan to nurture naughty students/students in the TNI barracks is a program plan for West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi.
"There are already legal rules, why should we make it up? We don't have to, in accordance with the provisions," said Luthfi as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, April 30.
According to him, the applicable legal rules can be imposed on children of old enough age who are proven to have committed a criminal offense.
"If the children are over the age of age, commit the crime, complete fingerprints related to the crime, right," he said.
In addition to being accountable before the law, Luthfi said that criminal snares also intend to provide a deterrent effect for students who are over 12 years old.
"If you are old enough, between 12 years and 18 years above, that is a crime, so that the effect is deterrent, and the evidence in Central Java is able to overcome all of that," he said.
For students who are still in the category of minors, he continued, it is better to foster them by returning them to educators in their respective schools and parents.
"If it's a minor, there is still the authority if there is still a teacher at school, return the parents," he said.
Previously, Sunday (27/4), West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi rolled out a plan to "beat up" problematic students in West Java to be educated in military barracks starting May 2, 2025.
Dedi Mulyadi said that this plan is a character education that will begin to be carried out in several areas in West Java which are considered vulnerable. In this case, his party cooperates with the TNI and Polri.
"It doesn't have to be directly in 27 regencies/cities. We start from areas that are ready and considered vulnerable first, then gradually," said Dedi in a statement in Bandung.
It was also said that each student would participate in the program in about 30 to 40 special barracks that had been prepared by the TNI.
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