International school urged
to take responsibility
The
Jakarta Education Agency has urged an international school to take
responsibility and acknowledge its operational weaknesses after one of its
kindergarten pupils was gang raped at the school, while the Education and
Culture Ministry plans to send an investigation team to the school.
“The
school needs to seriously reevaluate its current practices and its management
to ensure that such an incident does never happen again,” agency head Lasro
Marbun said on Tuesday. He added that the school must also apologize to the
parents of the pupils for letting such an incident take place within the school.
Education
and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh said he would send a team to the school to
investigate its management system. “The school has a responsibility to protect
its students from such incidents,” Nuh said as quoted by tribunnews.com.
The
case, involving the sexual assault of a six-year-old by three cleaning staff
members at an international school in South Jakarta, has gained considerable
attention from the public and the media, some of which have published sensitive
information, including the mother’s full name and identity.
The
mother and the family’s lawyer, Andi M. Asrun, held a press conference on
Monday and divulged a detailed account of the victim’s case.
Child
psychologist Tiwin Herman suggested on Tuesday that the case should not have
been exposed via a press conference, as exposing the case to the media would
only harm the victim’s already fragile mental state.
“The
family, school and police should have handled this case behind closed doors to
protect the child and minimize the negative psychological impact that media
exposure and unwanted attention can have on victims,” she said.
Tiwin
added that the name of the victim and the incident details should not have been
revealed to the media during the press conference held by the mother and lawyer
on Monday.
“I
understand the mother and the lawyer want to spread awareness of the incident,
but doing so in such a way to reporters was not proper, because there were many
unnecessary details that were divulged to the media, such as the child’s
unintentionally graphic description of the incident,” she added.
Tiwin
also said if the intention of the press conference was to criticize the slow
response of the school and police, that would be more acceptable because in
that case they would be voicing a complaint.
Jakarta
Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said investigators came to the school on
Tuesday to help the victim confirm and identify two more cleaning staff
possibly related to the case.
He
added that the police had asked the school to divulge information on the
backgrounds workers at the school to identify if they were free of major
diseases or mental illnesses.
Rikwanto
said the three suspects, Afriska, Virgiawan and Agun Iskandar, would be charged
under Article 292 of the Criminal Code and Article 82 of the Child Protection
Law, and faced up to 15 years in prison each.
The
victim’s mother elaborated on Monday that she and her lawyer were not
considering legal action against the school until the investigation into the
case had concluded.
The
Jakarta Post contacted the school for comment on Monday, but at the time of
publication, had not received a response.
Source :http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/04/16/international-school-urged-take-responsibility.html
In
my opinion it should be supervision and protection of children improved again. Supervision
children should not only entrusted to teachers when I was in school,
supervision of the child must be fully supervised and maintained by the people
closest to us and the most we can believe. Whatever the job of parents should
be watchful of children should be preferred or one of the parents there should
be more responsible for the supervision of children. Supervision of children
during the school day are also not to be fully charged to a helper or teacher
because teachers and aides would not necessarily be trusted like the Genesis
event, although this is not entirely JIS of the teacher. Seen here is very less
parents negligence and any school where children semewah dtempatkan to study
child supervision, however, the more important and should be improved. And
parents should also be more active to ask children during in-school or out of
school. Here parents should be more active to do a betindak approach to the
child approaches such as this will make the children more open to parents to
share their stories and even the problems experienced by children. And look at
the events of this to the JIS child protection also should be more emphasized
because it not only parents got involved doing the surveillance and protection
of the child, due to lack of supervision, approach, responsibility, attention
to children will negatively impact children.
