Children’s Rights:
Neglected Practices in Indonesia School
University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Background
Social relations and social
interaction are crucial aspects of
adolescents’ lives. An important
negative social influence among
school-aged children is bullying.
Bullying is increasingly recognized
as a significant risk to many
adolescents’ physical, mental,
and/or social development.
Adolescence is a sensitive period.
Part of this sensitivity relates to the
socially and the biological changes
before, during and beyond
adolescence.
Conceptual framework for adolescent health
Objective
The study aimed to advocate the
multi-sector stakeholders in order to
give attention to the handling of
cases of bullying in the school.
Review on Literature
The research is a literature study with
collect information from journals
related to bullying in schools.
 Always Monitoring
Significance of Research
 Reports in the Education Sector of
Indonesian Child Protection
Commission (KPAI) on January
2011 to August 2014 showed 369
cases or 25% of the total cases of  Upstream Policy
bullying in the school.
International Workshop on Social Determinants of Health Yogyakarta, 27 February - 4 March 2016
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 School is one of the
places where the most
widely discovery of
bullying for school age
children.
 Inadequate school or
teacher will provide
opportunities for
bullying.
Lack of control by the
school will make it
difficult to detect the
cases of bullying in
schools.
 The present, more
extensive, systematic
review indicates that
school-based anti-
bullying programs are
effective.
The lifecycle approach to risk factors for mental disorders
Recommendations
 Anti-bullying school program
System of accrediting effective
anti-bullying programs should be
developed, such as summer
camps, religious, youth and sport
activities and neighborhood play- References
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