Minister Of Health Issues Instructions To Prevent Bully Doctors At Government-Owned Hospitals

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi conveyed information about a case of bullying that befell a resident doctor at a vertical hospital at the Ministry of Health Building, Thursday (20/7/2023). (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) has issued an Instruction for the Minister of Health (Menkes) to Prevent and Handling Bullying for Students at Education Hospitals within the Ministry of Health

"We have decided for all vertical hospitals (RS) at the Indonesian Ministry of Health which are also major education hospitals, discipline to break the practice of bullying on medical specialist education programs. We will run it firmly and hard," said Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin at a press conference at the Indonesian Ministry of Health Building, Jakarta, Thursday, July 20, confiscated by Antara.

This provision is contained in the Instruction of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number HK.02.01/Menkes/1512/2023 signed by Budi Gunadi Sadikin on July 20, 2023.

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The forms of bullying experienced by students include physical bullying, hitting, pushing, biting, kicking, locking someone in the room, pinching, pinching, including squeezing and damaging other people's belongings, and sexual harassment.

Meanwhile, the verbal category in the form of threatening, embarrassing, degrading, disturbing actions, giving other names (name-calling), criticizing / mocking, intimidating, cursing, and spreading news that is not yet clear.

Classification of cyberbullying includes the act of hurting or hurting other people's hearts using electronic media such as conveying news or incorrect videos with the aim of provoking or defaming other people's good names.

Non-physical and other non-verbal bullyings such as acts of isolation, neglecting, sending canned letters, providing guard duties beyond reasonable limits, requesting financing for culinary, extracurricular, or other expenses beyond the stipulated education costs.

Complaints through the website contained a number of columns of contents, including the status of the reporter, the name of the victim, the NIK of the victim (optional), the name of the perpetrator, the frequency of the incident, the name of the scene, the description of the incident, attaching evidence of the incident (optional), contactable numbers and emails.

"The complaint number and website were received directly by the Inspectorate General of the Ministry of Health to be followed up," he said.

Budi said the victim's courage to complete the report with a full name and NIK could speed up the case tracing process. Meanwhile, the anonymous option has a longer duration of case tracing.

The website also contains a list of information about bullying that can provide knowledge for the users of the page.

Budi guarantees that all information gathered through the complaint feature will be kept confidential at the Inspectorate General of the Indonesian Ministry of Health.

Regarding sanctions, said Budi, it is divided into a number of levels ranging from written warnings, suspensions, to being expelled from educational institutions.

"All sanctions are light, trial, to severe to the Medical Ethics Honorary Council (MKEK), the Honorary Council for Indonesian Medical Discipline (MKDKI) and its collegium," he said.