MALAYSIA: Education, Home Ministries Launch Channels for Students and Parents to Report Bullying in Schools

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MalayMail-Aug 18

The Education Ministry and Ministry of Home Affairs’ initiative called Sekolahku Sejahtera: Sepakat dan Selamat and anti-bullying portal to look into the prevalence of bullying was launched here today at the Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Putrajaya Presint 14(1). At the launch, Education Minister Datuk Mohd Radzi Md Jidin and Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin said that the portal will also involve the police and the National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK) to deal with disciplinary issues and identify students who are prone to get involved with drugs. “The most important thing here today is to ensure that the schools become a safe space and free from bullying. To do that, we have to work together. “It has to extend beyond the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Home Affairs, the police and the AADK. Society, community leaders and parents have to be involved in order to help students feel that they are safe in school,” Radzi said.

Commenting further, he said that there are three ways that complaints of bullying can be filed: through a special 24-hour hotline for bullying victims, email, or the existing complaint channel provided by the education ministry. Radzi said complainants can stay anonymous, but the channels will ask for necessary information such as the name of the school to aid in police investigations. Read more at: https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/08/18/education-home-ministries-launch-channels-for-students-and-parents-to-report-bullying-in-schools/23396

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Indonesia urgently needs to revisit the possibility of repatriating the neediest of its young citizens stranded abroad, whose families had earlier joined ISIS. Most of these children are in camps in northern Syria but there are also small numbers in the Philippines, Afghanistan and Iraq. “Extricating Indonesian Children from ISIS Influence Abroad”, the latest report from the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) argues that the government could begin by bringing back small groups of unaccompanied children under ten years of age, who pose minimal security risk and are most vulnerable to deteriorating conditions in the camps.“The problem is that health and security conditions are worsening by the day in the Syrian camps, and the children are growing older,” says Dyah Kartika, IPAC analyst. “They need access to schools, a nurturing environment, and medical attention. If the government waits too long, the children will be further exposed to ISIS ideology.” The new report examines a 2019 list of Indonesians in camps and prisons run by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Indonesian government has been trying to verify their citizenship, but with pseudonyms, misspellings and bad transliterations, it is a daunting task. At the time the data was collected, between March and June 2019, there were 555 Indonesians in SDF camps and prisons, including 367 children. Among the children, approximately 277 were under the age of ten and 34 were unaccompanied. In June 2021, there are fewer than ten children who are both unaccompanied and under the age of ten that could be prioritized for return. Bringing back children of ISIS families is no easy task. The report analyses the main challenges faced by the Indonesian government. These include definitional issues, bureaucratic competition, the difficulty of verifying nationality, evaluating the toll of exposure to conflict, assessing security risk, and finding relatives or others willing to provide care once the children are returned. In addition, COVID has meant stringent restrictions on travel, placing further obstacles in the way of repatriation. There are several models for rehabilitation of children exposed to violent extremism in Indonesia that could be modified to accommodate the needs of children repatriated from abroad. The report examines these models and argues that the government does not need to have every detail of rehabilitation programs in place before it starts extricating children from ISIS influence. It can start by bringing back the most vulnerable children and then modify programs as needed.

“It’s important that the government see these children as victims” says Dyah. “They deserve a chance to be children again.”

MALAYSIA: Education, Home Ministries Launch Channels for Students and Parents to Report Bullying in Schools

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