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Filling cybersecurity education gap in primary and secondary schools

Digital education companies rush into schools offering various digital education packages, but almost none of them offer cybersecurity education or teach responsible digital behavior.

Alpha Amirrachman and Ervan Yudi Widyarto (The Jakarta Post)
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Filling cybersecurity education gap in primary and secondary schools Learning by clicking: Students of Bronggang Baru state elementary school in Cangkringan district, Sleman, Yogyakarta, surf the internet on Jan. 19, 2012, during an extracurricular program. (Antara/Noveradika)

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female student was recently found murdered after having been raped by four boys in Palembang, South Sumatra. The minors later confessed that they lured the girl via social media after watching pornographic content online.

According to a 2020 study, almost 80 percent of rape cases in Malaysia involve initial online friendship and most of the victims are under 18. The sexual predators use fake identities to lure victims.

Several South Korean schools have also recently been bombarded by artificial intelligence-produced deepfake pornographic images of several female students. The photos were circulated among students, causing serious distress.

This shows how cybercrime has taken various forms and not only involves institutions being attacked or data stolen for economic or political purposes, but also involves individuals, even young students, becoming both victims and perpetrators of crimes.

Indeed, cybersecurity education has been mushrooming and is steadily becoming institutionalized in higher education in Indonesia. Several universities and polytechnic institutes have offered undergraduate and postgraduate diplomas in cybersecurity, showing a growing demand of this expertise.

Unfortunately, there has not been much systematic development of cybersecurity education at the primary and secondary education levels. But students at this level show growing interest and enthusiasm in robotics, coding and other related digital areas, exposing them to mainly unexplored and unregulated cyberspace.

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Researchers Tandirerung et al (2023) and Wahib et al (2022) showed that during primary and secondary education, only basic awareness of cybersecurity is introduced, involving few schools.

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