Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology Prevention and Handling of Violence in the Environment Education Unit Officially Launched as Merdeka Learn 25th Episode

Jakarta, 8 August 2023 – Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Mendikbudristek), Nadiem Anwar Makarim officially launched Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology Regulation Number 46 of 2023 concerning Prevention and Handling of Violence in Education Unit Environments (Permendikbudristek PPKSP) as Merdeka Learn 25th Episode.

The PPKSP Permendikbudristek was passed as a legal umbrella for all members of the school or educational unit. This regulation was born to expressly deal with and prevent the occurrence of sexual violence, bullying, as well as discrimination and intolerance. In addition, to assist education units in dealing with cases of violence that occur, including violence in the form of online, psychological, and others with the perspective of the victim.

“For this reason, in the last few years we have involved various parties to design a regulation that can prevent and deal with violence in education units which today we will launch together, namely Permendikbudristek Number 46 of 2023 concerning Prevention and Handling of Violence in Educational Unit Environments,” said Minister of Education and Culture at the Launching of the 25th Episode of Freedom to Learn at the Achievement Insan Plaza, Ministry of Education and Culture, Jakarta, Tuesday (8/8).

“Permendikbudristek PPKSP protects students, educators, and educational staff from violence that occurs during educational activities, both inside and outside the education unit,” added the Minister of Education and Culture.

Minister Nadiem also explained that the PPKSP Permendikbudristek is an important part of fulfilling the mandate of Laws and Government Regulations that aim to protect children. This regulation also replaces the previous regulation, namely Permendikbud Number 82 of 2015 concerning Prevention and Management of Violence in Education Units.

In addition, the PPKSP Permendikbudristek also eliminates the “gray” area by providing a clear definition to distinguish forms of physical, psychological violence, bullying, sexual violence as well as discrimination and intolerance to support efforts to prevent and deal with violence. Apart from regulating acts of violence, this Permendikbudristek also ensures that there are no policies that have the potential to cause violence in educational units.

“This new regulation also explicitly states that there should be no policies that have the potential to cause violence, whether in the form of decrees, circulars, official notes, appeals, instructions, guidelines, and others,” said Nadiem.

In addition to these matters, the PPKSP Permendikbudristek also regulates prevention mechanisms carried out by education units, regional governments, and the Ministry of Education and Culture, as well as procedures for handling violence that are pro-victims that support recovery.

The education unit was also mandated to form a Team for the Prevention and Handling of Violence (TPPK) and the provincial and district/city governments to form a Task Force (Satgas).

“TPPK and Task Forces need to be formed within 6 to 12 months after this regulation is passed, so that violence in education units can be dealt with immediately. If there are reports of violence, these two working groups must deal with violence and ensure recovery for victims, while administrative sanctions are given to perpetrators of students by considering educative sanctions and still paying attention to students’ rights to education,” said the Minister of Education and Culture.

Based on data from the 2022 National Assessment survey, as many as 34.51 percent of students (1 out of 3) had the potential to experience sexual violence, then 26.9 percent of students (1 out of 4) had the potential to experience corporal punishment, and 36.31 percent (1 of 3) potentially experiencing bullying.

This finding was also corroborated by the results of the 2021 National Survey of Life Experiences of Children and Adolescents, Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (SNPHAR, KPPPA), namely 20 percent of boys and 25.4 percent of girls aged 13 to 17 years said they had experienced one or more types of violence in the past 12 months .

Complaint data received by the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) on special protection for children in 2022 also mentions the highest category of child victims of sexual crimes, namely child victims of physical and/or psychological violence, as well as child victims of pornography and cybercrime as many as 2,133.

Source :

Press Release of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology Number : 368/sipers/A6/VIII/2023