Viral Junior High School Children Eat At Fast Food Restaurants While Ridiculing Palestinian Children, School Urges Students To Apologize

SMP Negeri 216 Jakarta (doc SMPN 216 Jakarta)

JAKARTA - Viral on social media a group of teenagers eating at a fast food restaurant while making fun of Palestinian children who are victims of Israeli genocide.

In the video uploaded on social media, a number of teenagers analogize the fried chicken that they eat as Palestinian children's meat and chili sauce as the blood of Palestinian children.

It was revealed that a teenager who recorded and uploaded a video on his Instagram account was a student of SMP Negeri 216 Jakarta. The school also clarified this.

"The four people in the video are not students of SMPN 216 Jakarta. The one who videos and posts as well as the owner of the instastory account is one of the 9th grade students of SMPN 216 Jakarta, who is also a friend of them," wrote the school statement, Tuesday, June 11.

After exploring the video that had been circulating, the school also criticized the behavior in the video.

Now, the DKI Jakarta Education Office urges the student who recorded and uploaded the video to apologize publicly.

"We condemn the behavior in the video and have summoned the person concerned and his family to apologize," said Acting Head of the DKI Jakarta Education Office Budi Awaluddin.

Budi claimed that the Education Office would instruct schools, including SMPN 216, to increase the teachings and value of tolerance for their students.

"We will instill and foster the strengthening of the character of the student to all schools," explained Budi.