Eliminate hazing

Eliminate hazing

From Media Indonesia

Initiation rites or hazing began here during the Dutch colonial times, when the colonial administration needed to train students to deal with their enemies.

Now that Indonesia is undergoing reform, a movement that began in 1998, hazing, in which senior students generally mentally and physically torment new students, is still practiced. Unfortunately, in some cases, this practice has claimed several lives.

In fact, the government has banned hazing with the issuance of Ministry of Education and Culture Decree No. 043/1971, Circular of the Director General of Higher Learning of the Ministry of Education and Culture No. 1539/D/I/1999 dated June 17, 1999 and Decision of the Director General of Higher Learning No. 38/Dikti/2000 in March, 2000.

Proponents of the initiation rites argue that this activity is very important for new students because, among other things, it can strengthen students' solidarity and the minds of new students.

There is no research to prove that this argument is correct. What we have often hear is that the students are frequently asked to do absurd and useless things and that the new students are generally humiliated by their seniors.

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