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.
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,”
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.
Achmad,the
school principal said student activities at the school had already
returned to normal and that they were no longer distracted by the sex video
scandal.
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.
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.
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.
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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Jakarta Globe posted
October 29,2013
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