KPAI Clarifies, Students Of Bengkulu Insulting Palestine Are Not Expelled From School

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JAKARTA - The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) requested clarification to the Head of The Education Branch of VIlI Regional Education in Central Bengkulu Regency, Adang Parlindungan regarding the sanction status of Palestinian disgraced schoolgirls.

Kpai Commissioner for Education, Retno Listyarti said, it turns out that the student with the initials MS was only temporarily returned to her parents, not expelled from the school.

"This statement was later corrected kacabdin, Adang Parlindungan and also the Head of SMAN 1 Bengkulu Tengah who stated that MS is only returned to parents. It was also at the request of MS's own parents through a letter of resignation signed by MS's parents," Retno said in a statement Monday, May 24.

During the process of being returned to parents temporarily, Retno said MS is guaranteed to continue to get online learning and grade-up exams.

Sanctions are returned to parents while it is part of the sanction that parents must nurture their child to realize his or her mistake and will not repeat the same act in the future. Therefore, parents are obliged to educate ms characters in order to improve themselves.

"KPAI has ensured that Dapodik data on behalf of MS is still in its school, SMAN 1 Bengkulu Tengah. Perhaps ms sanctions returned to parents are similar to the term suspension," Retno said.

For information, MS made a recording of hate speech against Palestinians who are currently in conflict with Israel. In an 8-second upload that has been deleted by TikTok, MS recorded herself voicing blasphemy against Palestine.

Previously, the Department of Education and Culture (Dikbud) of Bengkulu Province ensured that high school grade II students in Bengkulu Tengah Bengkulu District who commit hate speech insulting Palestine will not drop out of school.

The head of the Education and Culture Office (Dikbud) of Bengkulu Province Eri Yulian Hidayat insisted that he never revoked the student's right to continue his education after an eight-second video of blasphemy against Palestine that he uploaded to TikTok social media went viral.

"The child's right to an education is never revoked. He will still go to school, but because of the psychological burden of course he does not attend his home school anymore," Eri said in Bengkulu quoted by Antara, Thursday, May 20.