A South Jakarta high school confirmed Monday it had suspended 14 senior students for allegedly being involved in a recent bullying case.
“We suspended them [the students] from today,” SMAN 82 high school principle Utar Muchtar said.
He said the school needed to question all suspended students and their parents before deciding on the final sanction.
"We hope we can finish all investigations in a week," he said, adding that the harshest sanction was expelling the students from the school.
On Tuesday, Ade Fauzan Mahfuza, 16, a tenth-grader at the school, located in Kebayoran Baru, was taken to Pertamina Hospital after dozens of his seniors attacked him for crossing a “restricted” hallway located in front of a classroom for senior students.
Ade said on Tuesday morning he walked across a corridor in front of the twelfth-grade classroom to collect a book he had left in one of the classrooms, where he had taken a mid-term exam the day before.
After school finished, a dozen twelfth-graders waited for Ade in front of the school where they physically provoked and humiliated him. The junior felt forced to fight back, but the seniors hit him until he was unconscious.
Ade received six stitches in his mouth and had sustained several injuries to his head and arms, leading his mother to report the case to the police.
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