When the face of education is stolen, the future of generations is at stake

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The face of our education world is cracking. Not due to low academic achievements, but by something more silent and terrifying: sexual violence. It does not appear in the classroom, but circulates quietly on gadget screens—seeping in, replicating, then spreading. We are not facing mere teenage mischief. We are witnessing the birth of a new form of sexual violence—produced, disseminated, and normalised by technology. What we are seeing today in several campuses is not just cases, but the tip of the iceberg phenomenon. Its surface is only beginning to appear, while beneath it lies a much larger and systemic crisis. The phenomenon of sexual violence does not arise out of nowhere. What is happening in several campuses today can begin as early as in secondary school. Technology When a face can be stolen, attached to a body that is not its own, then disseminated as material for ridicule, what collapses is not only the dignity of the individual—but also our collective moral boundaries as a society. We live in an era when fantasies can be realised with the help of technology. Faces can be borrowed, bodies engineered, and honour traded in seconds. The question is no longer whether technology can do that, but whether we are ready to face its human consequences. A new anxiety emerges. Our faces circulate in digital spaces—not as proud portraits, but as objects of humiliation. Bodies that are not ours, scenes that never happened, yet appear so real. The development of artificial intelligence, once celebrated as a milestone of progress, now harbours a worrying paradox. For example, deepfakes—especially in the form of pornography—have transformed into a new form of violence that is difficult to reach by legal instruments or social awareness.