Orientation program

Orientation program

From Kompas

I am a student at a university in Jakarta. I am concerned
about an incident experienced by a fellow student during the
three-day orientation program held by the School of Landscaping
Architecture and Environment Techniques.

The program includes a social activity, planting trees in a
certain district, which should be good for the students. However,
the program turned out to be a harmful practice because the
senior students treated their juniors improperly.

For example, a senior male student asked his female junior to
lie down in ditch. Then he pressed his foot on the abdomen of the
new student and also on her breast. The freshman then screamed in
pain. Was it not an act of harassment? There is no relevance
whatsoever in his action with the social activity. Obviously, it
was beyond our comprehension. There was another disgusting
incident in this case, spraying urine on a new student.

This kind of program is carried out every year, so it cannot
be abolished without good reasons. I would like to suggest that
such unpopular practices be stopped for our common good.

Name and address

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