Coitus common among students: Study

Coitus common among students: Study

JAKARTA (JP): A study of 558 high-school students reveals that
sex among classmates after watching pornographic videos has
become common practice among some Jakarta students.

Speaking in a one-day seminar on juvenile delinquency here
yesterday, Heru Prasadja, from the Catholic-based Atmajaya
University, quoted the data from the study as saying that the
consumption of drugs and alcoholic beverages has also been quite
popular among students at both junior and senior high schools in
the city.

The study was conducted over four months by undercover agents
of the National Police Headquarters and the university. The study
surveyed those 558 high school students that have recorded the
highest number of student delinquency cases over the past few
months.

"We just learned of this during the in-depth interviews with
the students in the study," Heru told The Jakarta Post during a
break at the seminar.

According to the students, they normally have sexual
intercourse with their schoolmates just after watching porn
videos, said Heru, who is also head of the study project.

"Some of them admitted that they did it after reaching a
mutual agreement," he told the seminar held at the university.

Without giving detailed figures, Heru believed that the study
showed that the number of occurrences has reached critical levels
in many junior and senior high schools in the city.

The Indonesian government strictly bans the distribution of
porn videos and laser discs although some video rental outlets
are still offering them to their customers.

City Police, for example, have confiscated hundreds of porn
videos and LDs along with high-grade alcohol and drugs in a
series of raids over the past few years.

Complicated

When asked to comment on the unexpected findings of the study,
former chief of the Central Jakarta police precinct Lt. Col.
Dadang Garnida, who has been handling juvenile delinquents for
years, replied: "The problems of the students are very
complicated."

"Everyone in their surroundings has to help resolve the
problems that have led the students down the wrong path," said
Dadang, who is now head of the Palembang city police in South
Sumatra.

Dadang was one of 300 participants, including high school
students, attending yesterday's seminar, which was opened by
rector of the Atmajaya University Mrs. Mariana Setiadarma. Other
speakers included Col. I Wayan Sutayana from the Police High
School (PTIK) and psychologist Irwanto from Atmajaya University.

Most speakers blamed the parents and the students'
surroundings and the bad attitudes of their friends as the main
factors stimulating teenagers to do such things.

The study also revealed that out of the 558 student
respondents, 44.7 percent admitted to having been involved in
student brawls, 18 percent have carried sharp weapons and 22
percent have wounded other people.

Most of them also confessed to having scrawled graffiti over
many location in the city.

According to data available in the seminar, eight students
have dead, seven have been injured and 111 have been arrested in
the 59 brawls recorded last year. The clashes damaged at least
390 city buses.

The data also showed that student brawls took place mostly
between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. and during the first and second months
of the school year.

More than 85 percent of the schools whose students were
involved in the brawls were those from the privately-owned senior
high schools, especially vocational schools.

On each raid, police usually confiscated a wide range of
contraceptive devices, porn magazines and videos, bottles of
spirits, cigarettes and large numbers of weapons and tools from
the students' schoolbags. They also seized other weapons like
screwdrivers, stones, knives and sizable nails. (bsr)