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76 Crime L. & Soc. Change 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/crmlsc76 and id is 1 raw text is: Crime, Law and Social Change (2021) 76:1-22
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-021-09941-6
Child protection versus teacher protection: a legal
review of the settlement of school corporal
punishment in Indonesia
Rusmilawati Windari1 - Supanto2 - Widodo Tresno Novianto3
Accepted: 19 January 2021! Published online:6 April 2021
(0 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature 2021
Abstract
The education sphere nowadays faces the issue of corporal punishment, which is
considered a detrimental school discipline that has negative impacts on a child's
development and growth. Teachers are advised to always opt for moral persuasion
rather than corporal punishment in disciplining their misbehaving students. In Indonesia,
the teacher stays in a dilemma as many cases of the administration of light corporal
punishment have gone to criminal litigation and ended up with sentencing ofthe teacher.
Concurrently, often the teacher becomes a victim of a student's disruptive behavior
when they only adopt soft measures such as reprimands. Legal protection for teachers
has been guaranteed by the Teacher and Lecturer Law Year 2005 and several other
relevant regulations. Unfortunately, the existence of the Law on Child Protection Year
2014, which broadly governs the prohibition of violence, has made criminalisation of
teachers easy and their protection questionable. This paper elaborates the extent of legal
protection provided to teachers in the term of facing criminal litigation due to corporal
punishment. It also explores the legal effort that can be undertaken by the Indonesian
Government to embody fair protection for teachers and children.
Keywords Teacher protection - Child protection - School corporal punishment . Criminal
law Review
2 Rusmilawati Windari
wiendari@gmail.com
Supanto
supanto.8787@gmail.com
Widodo Tresno Novianto
novianto @consultant.corn
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