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Vice President Ma'ruf Amin said he was concerned about the phenomenon of violence in the world of education and boarding schools. The vice president asked schools and educational institutions to play an active role in preventing various forms of violence.

“For the pesantren, there is already a masyayikh council, a community assembly, consisting of various scholars from various pesantren. The main goal is to provide guidance to improve the quality of pesantren," said the Vice President when met in Jakarta, Saturday (22/10/2022).

“However, there is also guidance including an anti-violence curriculum. So there are anticipatory efforts to prevent the occurrence of violence that recently emerged," said the Vice President.

The vice president admitted that schools and educational institutions other than pesantren do not yet have a special council such as the community assembly. He encouraged the relevant ministries to make patterns of preventing the occurrence of various acts of violence in the world of education.

“In fact, I heard that there was sexual violence in orphanages there. I ask that later, both the minister of religion and the minister of social affairs will also pay attention to and prevent patterns of violence," said the vice president.

The case of violence at Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor 1 Pusat, Ponorogo, East Java, last August caused the death of a student with the initials AM. Initially, the pesantren informed the family in Palembang that AM's death was due to illness, later it was discovered that it was due to the violence of his senior classmate.

No less worrying is the sexual violence experienced by dozens of female students at a boarding school in the East Beji area, Depok. They are alleged to have been victims of sexual violence by four clerics and an older classmate in the past year. (RRI)