Viral Video Of DPD Members Angry At Vocational School Teachers In Denpasar, FSGI: Good Intentions Must Be Done In A Good Way

Retno Listyarti, FSGI Expert Council (ist)

JAKARTA - A viral video on social media showing a member of the Bali Regional Representative Council (DPD), Arya Wedakarna, reprimanding teachers at SMKN 5 Denpasar in front of their students. In the video, Arya Wedakarna seems to strongly criticize the teacher for giving punishments that are considered excessive to students who are late in class. The punishment is writing for 1.5 hours.

Good intentions must be done in good ways. If there is violence allegedly committed by unscrupulous teachers, then it is necessary to investigate first and the solution must educate and create a deterrent effect for the alleged perpetrator.

Investigate whether there are school rules that sanction students to write for 1.5 hours when they behave inappropriately or violate certain rules at the school. Are there any articles that regulate these sanctions?

If it turns out to exist, then the teacher (educator) only carries out the rules in the school's rules, meaning that this system at the school is not an idea or an initiative of the teacher of the perpetrator.

Related to this, the Federation of Indonesian Teachers' Unions (FSGI) expressed its following attitude: 1. If it turns out to be a school system, then the principal and school management must be responsible for revising the regulation. Order the Education Office and the school to implement Permendikbudristek No. 46 of 2023 concerning the Prevention and Handling of Violence (PPKSP).

2. If it turns out that the teacher who imposes the sanctions on personal initiative, the teacher must be responsible. In the event that the school PPK Team will handle the teacher, it includes sanctions recommendations that must be likened to those who are in charge of committing violence against children by punishing children to write for 1.5 hours. Because if it is true that there are sanctions like that, it is clear that it violates the Child Protection Law and Permendikbudristek 46/2023.

3. Carrying out the act of reprimanding the alleged perpetrator's teacher in public, especially in front of his students and making videos until it goes viral is a wrong act, for demeaning and embarrassing someone. This can be categorized as an unpleasant act and if it is deliberately distributed for certain (personal) interests, and causes shame to the teacher and his family, it is possible to report a violation of the ITE Law. It can also have a detrimental impact on the school and the big family of SMKN due to the viral video.

4. FSGI opposes all forms of violence in education, including verbal violence and online-based violence. FSGI opposes physical punishment for students such as a 1.5-hour writing sentence, but FSGI also opposes resolution by demeaning and embarrassing teachers who are suspected of being perpetrators because it is also a form of violence, it is very likely to be affected by psychological violence for the teacher concerned, his family and also the institution where he works.