PGRI Values The Rise Of Teacher Criminalization Hazards Education System

A number of students were guided by their teachers to take part in the National Computer-Based Assessment (ANBK) at the emergency school at the Balaroa Inpres Elementary School, Palu, Central Sulawesi, Monday, October 18, 2021. (ANTARA- Basri Marzuki)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Teachers' Association (PGRI) said the proliferation of cases of teacher criminalization by parents due to the provision of educational punishment to students could endanger the education system. The reason is that this action contradicts the scope of duties from the teaching profession. "Educational punishment is included in the duties of the teaching profession, the law guarantees it. So later teachers will let them if there are students who behave inappropriately, morals are not good, are not reprimanded, punished for fear of being criminalized. This is a danger to the education system.” said Deputy Secretary General of the PGRI Executive Board Dudung Abdul Qodir in Jakarta, Wednesday, October 25, confiscated by Antara. He reminded that the function of national education is to develop the ability of the character and civilization of a dignified nation in order to educate the nation as written in Law no. 20 of 2003 concerning the National Education System. He explained that the provision of educational punishment is part of the educational process to develop the ability of students' character. Therefore, he said that the prevention and prosecution of violence in educational units should not be missed also seeing teachers as parties who are both vulnerable to being victims of violence, both verbal, threats, and physical "Although we have a legal aid institution, we still need to strengthen education and literacy regarding the rights and obligations of teachers in educating parents," said Dudung.

However, he admits that there are teachers who give excessive and unsuitable education punishments for the age of students so that strengthening teacher resources is an important step to prevent violence in education units. Strengthening the teacher's resources, he said, could be in the form of providing training so that the teacher's teaching and education methods, including providing educational punishment, adjusting to the current development of student behavior and psychology, are in line with the Independent Curriculum. He admitted that not a few teachers whose teaching methods were not renewed and seemed authoritarian to today's students because the teacher was busy working on administrative tasks so he did not have time to increase his scientific capacity. "Therefore, creating an educational system that is free from violence requires collaboration and synergy of many parties so that everything is protected, not just one party," said Dudung.