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Your comments on the recent report of alleged sexual abuse at a school in Jakarta and the effort to protect children at school:There have been sexual acts performed by teachers with teachers, teachers with students, clerics with young students and students also performing sexual acts with other students
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Your comments on the recent report of alleged sexual abuse at a school in Jakarta and the effort to protect children at school:
There have been sexual acts performed by teachers with teachers, teachers with students, clerics with young students and students also performing sexual acts with other students.
It's apparent that those wielding power should close these schools down, but will it happen?
Kale
This incident proves that our government has not been managing school standards. Aside from this school, we shouldn't forget what triggered it, and what may come ahead.
Shiroan Duchan
If this can happen at Jakarta International School (JIS), it can happen at any other school, especially the smaller schools that are all around Jakarta. The Education and Culture Ministry should be investigating every early learning center in Jakarta.
Parents shouldn't just rely on procedures and technology. We have to teach our kids to be aware. I do. We also have to teach our kids boundaries. We also have to keep an eye out for signs of predators by popping into our school, staying on top of our drivers and nannies and demanding that the schools not get lax in their procedures.
No one is talking about body guards for kids. We're talking about common sense and teachers and parents who pay attention to unusual behavior or holes in security. In the meantime, until the school in question can get their protocols straight, like two to a bathroom and constant head counts, then they have no business taking kids outside the campus.
R Turner
This could have happened everywhere, whether at JIS, or in any other school, at a mall, on the work floor or even at home in Indonesia or in any other country. This terrible story reminds us that we are surrounded by bad minds. So it is a matter of teaching our kids how to act or react and even teach them some self defense skills in case they are being molested by sick people.
April
Children must be educated that nobody has a right to touch or hurt them. They must also be aware that if somebody does touch or hurt then they must tell the police immediately.
David
Jakarta
Of course the management of this school, having clearly failed to provide adequate protection for its students, is now desperately trying to retain its good name and decades-old reputation for excellence.
However, the school's management should be well aware of
the fact that inadequate and unconvincing attempts to cover up the whole sordid incident will definitely increase parents' distrust in its honesty and integrity.
The international school would do well to sincerely and publicly admit its failure in protecting the students, pay in full for the physical and psychological damage suffered by the victim and its family, and install extra measures to ensure the safety of its students.
Only then can it hope to retain a semblance of the good reputation it has built up for several decades.
Tami
Bogor, West Java
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