martes, 29 de octubre de 2013

Sex Education Urged by Joko in Wake of Scandal - Jakarta Globe

TO GO WITH INDONESIA-POLITICS-WIDODO FEATURE BY OLIVIA RONDONUWU..This picture taken on August 22, 2013, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo, walks with school children during sight inspection of city projects in Jakarta. If being among the people is unusual for an Indonesian politician, doing so at a heavy metal gig is one of the reasons 52 year-old Joko Widodo has quickly risen to the top of opinion polls as a figure regarded as outside the establishment.  AFP PHOTO / BAY ISMOYO..

This picture taken on August 22, 2013, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo, walks with school children during sight inspection of city projects in Jakarta. Joko said on Monday that sex education was important so that young children could be made aware of what was appropriate for people their age. (AFP Photo)

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has stressed the importance of providing sex education to young children, following the emergence of a sex video involving two junior high school students.

Joko said on Monday that sex education was important so that young children could be made aware of what was appropriate for people their age.

"For instance, we can invite psychologists and officials from the National Commission for Child Protection [Komnas PA] into schools so that they can explain what is appropriate for children," Joko said at City Hall as quoted as saying by Kompas.

Joko added that the junior high school sex video scandal should be resolved as discreetly as possible.

"I have asked the [Jakarta Education Office] to resolve it privately because it concerns the future of those children," the former Solo mayor said.

Joko said the case was not only the responsibility of the education agency to prevent but also the responsibility of schools and parents.

Jakarta Education Office head Taufik Yudi Mulyanto said the office had taken an approach to solving the case in accordance with the governor's instructions and that all students who were involved in the making of the sex tape had already been transferred to other schools.

"Based on the agreement between the school, parents and the students themselves, they will continue their studies elsewhere," he said.

Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has ordered Taufik to dismiss the principal of the school in question, State Junior High School ( SMPN) No. 4 .

Basuki later revoked his instruction to dismiss the official after finding out that Achmad Jazuli had only been the school's principal for two days before the incident took place.

The principal declined to comment on Basuki's order but said he was focusing on restoring academic activities to normal.

"I just want to talk about the future, how to restore the situation so that the children can be better for the sake of their future," he said.

Achmad said student activities at the school had already returned to normal and that they were no longer distracted by the sex video scandal.

Briefing

The Jakarta Education Office said it would soon hold a meeting with all school principals in Jakarta after the student sex video went viral on the Internet.

Taufik said his office had invite the principals of junior high schools as well as students and parents in the Jakarta area for a discussion early next month.

"On November 1, we will give a briefing at a gathering of school principals, students' parents and school committees," Taufik said.

He added that his office had invited noted psychologist and sex expert Zoya Amirin, educator Arief Rahman and psychologist and HIV/AIDS activist Baby Jim Aditya as guest speakers at the meeting.

Taufik added that he hoped to prevent similar incidents from happening again by holding the discussion.

"We want to focus on establishing a collective mind-set on the students' behavior," he said.

Speaking on the same note, Joko said that he planned to summon the education office head and other concerned officials to discuss the matter of the sex video.

He added that he would take strict action against any officials found to have been negligent in allowing the sex act to take place and be filmed inside a classroom after school was over.

"I don't have detailed information [regarding the case] yet. I need to understand it before I can comment," he said in Solo over the weekend.

Taufik said his office would still impose some sort of censure against Achmad, even though he was new to the school at the time of the incident.

However, he added that whatever sanction was meted out would be tempered by considerations of Achmad's track record as an educator.

Taufik also said his office planned to provide counseling for the students involved in the incident, saying that the sex scandal had affected more students than initially thought.

"It turned out after studying it with the school … the problem created by the small group [of students] has affected a wide group of others," he said.

He said the counseling, set to take place in the near future, was hoped to minimize the psychological damage the students had endured after their school drew widespread media attention.

The Jakarta Police have questioned several people over the sexually explicit video, an official said.

Based on the witnesses' testimony and observations of the video, investigators had come to an early conclusion that the video's participants were not forced to be in it.

"Seventeen people have been questioned," Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said last week.

"They are the 10 students who watched and recorded it, four officials from the school — the principal, deputy principal, counselor and a teacher — as well as three security staff. We have questioned them all," he added.

Police became involved in the case when the parents of the girl in the video, who is understood to be around 15 years old, filed a complaint saying she had been coerced into performing a sex act on another student by several of her peers who threatened her at knife point.

Rikwanto said police had yet to question the two students filmed in the act.

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